Developing Economies

Photo: The colors of the Colombian flag are reflected in a canal next to the convention center in Cartagena, Colombia. [Reuters/Jaime Saldarriaga]

Colombia leads the developing world in signing the first social impact bond contracts

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Izzy Boggild-Jones

Friday, March 31, 2017

South Africa's outgoing Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan holds a copy of an intelligence report that President Jacob Zuma used as justification to fire him, during a media briefing at their offices in Pretoria, South Africa, March 31,2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTX33IUO

Africa in the news: Zuma sacks Finance Minister Gordhan, Côte d’Ivoire seeks additional IMF funds, and violence in DRC escalates

Friday, March 31, 2017

Schoolgirls attend a lesson at a school that reopened after a gap of more than a year and a half because of clashes in Benghazi, Libya December 20, 2015. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori - RTX1ZH94

WATCH: Pathways for scaling up quality education in developing countries

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Priyanka Varma

Thursday, March 30, 2017

A man counts Nigerian Naira as he waits for customers at a local foodstuff market in Lagos, Nigeria November 2, 2016.REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RTX2RIT8

Figures of the week: Human development progress in Africa and globally

Friday, March 24, 2017

Men pour water brought by cart into a container at a stall on Clifton Beach in Karachi, Pakistan March 5, 2016. Some 650 million people, or one in 10 of the world's population, have no access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death. Dirty water and poor sanitation can cause severe diarrhoeal diseases in children, killing 900 under-five a day across the world, according to United Nations estimates. World Water Day, marked this year on March 22, highlights various concerns about the world's water resources, and in 2016 is focusing on how good access to safe water can create paid work and contribute to a greener economy. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro SEARCH "SAFE WATER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - RTSANXL

Stealing water

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, March 23, 2017

U.N. Secretary general Antonio Guterres (R) and Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed arrive for a joint news conference after their meeting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar - RTS11RK7

Africa in the news: Guterres visits East Africa while South Sudan increases NGO fees, Lesotho parliament dissolved, Somalia to print new banknotes

Christina Golubski

Friday, March 10, 2017

A Women carries fire wood on her head as she walks below Eskom's Elecricity pylons in Soweto, South Africa. August 8,2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTSMORN

Foresight Africa : participez à la conversation sur les priorités importante pour l’Afrique en 2017

Friday, March 3, 2017

A worker attends to a customer at an MTN shop at mall in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTS1148T

Africa in the news: South Africa and Nigeria contend with xenophobic attacks, circulation of U.S. dollars in Zimbabwe declines, and CFTA Negotiating Forum kicks off

Friday, March 3, 2017

A teller serves a client with Kenya shilling notes at the cashier's booth of a forex exchange bureau in Kenya's capital Nairobi, April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RTX2AV1P

East African institutional investors have strong unmet demand for regional investment funds

Jacqueline Irving

Thursday, March 2, 2017

The Eiffel tower is illuminated in green with the words "Paris Agreement is Done", to celebrate the Paris U.N. COP21 Climate Change agreement in Paris, France, November 4, 2016. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen - RTX2RZ42

American soft power, the Paris Agreement, and climate finance under Trump

Timmons Roberts and Caroline Jones

Friday, February 24, 2017