Developing Economies

Customers queue to draw money from an ATM outside a branch of South Africa's Standard Bank in Cape Town, March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings - S1BETGAWNSAA

Africa’s arrival

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma shake hands before the group photo during the BRICS Summit at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center in Xiamen, southeastern China's Fujian Province, China September 4, 2017. REUTERS/Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Pool - RC12CBC6B5B0

Foresight Africa viewpoint – China’s engagement in Africa: What can we learn in 2018 from the $60 billion commitment?

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, Mozambique's Prime Minister Luisa Diogo, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, Niall FitzGerald, Deputy Chairman, Thomson Reuters, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, and former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan (L-R) attend a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 30, 2009. More than 40 heads of state and government -- almost double the number last year -- will be joined at the WEF meeting by 36 finance ministers and central bankers, including the central bank chiefs of all the G8 group of rich countries except the United States. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND) - BM2E51U0VKA01

Africa in the news: JP Morgan Chase plans Africa expansion, Davos meetings attract African leaders, and Total SA builds oil pipeline in Kenya

Friday, January 26, 2018

Tagged sweet potato plants are seen on a field at the International Potato Center (CIP) experimental station in San Ramon at Peru's central jungle August 27, 2010. Located in a tropical rainforest with a similar ecosystem to developing countries across Asia and Africa, the station improves new crop varieties of potato and sweet potato to achieve better tolerance to diseases, droughts and higher temperatures caused by global warming. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: AGRICULTURE SOCIETY SCI TECH FOOD) - GM1E68S16LR01

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Why technology will disrupt and transform Africa’s agriculture sector in a good way

Friday, January 26, 2018

A street vendor poses with new bond notes in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC1810B8F2E0

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Debt by diaspora: Ties that bond

Michael Famoroti

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Kenyan workers prepare men's underwear at the Hela intimates export processing zone (EPZ) limited factory in Athi River, near Nairobi, Kenya, July 27, 2017. Picture taken July 27, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RC13E6D7E410

Foresight Africa viewpoint – The global dividends of Africa’s industrialization

Célestin Monga

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Egyptians shop at a vegetable market in Cairo, Egypt, October 11, 2017. Picture taken October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RC13764F8900

Foresight Africa viewpoint – Universal basic income and Africa’s oil countries

Shanta Devarajan

Monday, January 22, 2018

Staff talk in the Congress Hall ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in the Swiss Alps resort of Davos, Switzerland January 22, 2018 REUTERS/Denis Balibouse - RC1AC3B3E400

Davos attendees should beware the slowing of potential growth

Monday, January 22, 2018

People displaced by the recent unrest, collect food distributed by aid agencies at an IDP camp at the Mpoko international airport of Bangui February 12, 2014. The United Nations estimates that 1.3 million people - more than a quarter of the population - are in need of urgent food aid after months of communal violence that French and African peacekeepers have been unable to stop. REUTERS/Luc Gnago (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - GM1EA2D01YD01

The end of aid

Friday, January 19, 2018

National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, in Bangkok, Thailand.

Countering the wildlife trafficking and poaching threat

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Fred Dews

Friday, January 19, 2018