Development Financing

African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina addresses the audience during the inauguration ceremony of the Annual General Meeting of AfDB bank in Gandhinagar, India May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Amit Dave - RC1BE6744E00

Future Development

Will less concessional development assistance for Africa cause another debt crisis?

Luisa Teixeira Felino and Brian Pinto

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Development Financing

Impact bonds in developing countries: Early learnings from the field

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Izzy Boggild-Jones, Dean Segell, and Justice Durland

September 18, 2017

Construction workers direct a crane at the Radisson hotel site in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, September 12, 2015. From Abidjan’s packed airport arrivals hall to the buildings mushrooming across the capital, Ivory Coast is booming, a rare African bright spot as the world’s biggest cocoa producer bounces back from a 2011 civil war. Buyers of luxury apartments include Ivorians living overseas, while promoters from Morocco, Turkey and China are attracted by tax breaks. Elections - the source of national unrest four years ago - are due in a month but there is no let-up in investment given expectations of an easy victory for incumbent Alassane Ouattara. The government predicts 9.6 percent growth this year, making the former French colony the standout performer on a continent hammered by a slump in commodity prices, capital outflows and tumbling currencies. REUTERS/Joe PenneyPICTURE 14 OF 33 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "IVORY COAST IS BOOMING". SEARCH "BOOMING PENNEY" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000219116

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: China’s rebalancing and African growth

Amy Copley

Thursday, September 14, 2017

A displaced man complains about the lack of food supplies outside a processing centre as smoke from burning oil refinery blanketed Qayyara, south of Mosul, Iraq October 23,2016. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - S1AEUIQBNYAB

Future Development

Two reasons why rentier states would adopt universal basic income

Shanta Devarajan

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Reports

Students in the Mexican state of Chihuahua

Development Financing

Impact bonds in Mexico: Opportunities and challenges

Christine Zülow, José Luis Chicoma, and Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Monday, August 14, 2017

A U.N. peacekeeper demonstrates to schoolchildren how to use a mine sweeper during an educational campaign at the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) headquarters in the town of Naqoura in southern Lebanon April 4, 2014. U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon held an educational campaign for schoolchildren teaching them to identify mines and unexploded cluster bombs to commemorate international mine awareness day. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: MILITARY EDUCATION) - RTR3JXJX

Development Financing

The politics of foreign aid

Liz Schrayer

Monday, July 31, 2017

Internally displaced Somali families rest as they flee from drought stricken regions in Lower Shabelle region before entering makeshift camps in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar TEMPLATE OUT - RTX31HFI

Development Financing

Handle with care: The challenge of fragility

Nancy Lindborg

Monday, July 31, 2017

Workers offload the first consignment of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) medical equipment towards the fight against Ebola, at the Roberts International Airport in Monrovia, August 24, 2014. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that a decision by many transport companies to suspend services to Ebola-hit countries was leading to shortages of basic goods and foodstuffs. The USAID airlifted more than 16 tons of medical equipment and emergency supplies to the Liberian capital Monrovia on Sunday. Picture taken August 24, 2014. REUTERS/James Giahyue (LIBERIA - Tags: DISASTER SOCIETY HEALTH TRANSPORT) - RTR43LPD

Development Financing

American public support for foreign aid in the age of Trump

Steven Kull

Monday, July 31, 2017

A woman carries a bag of rice from USAID as part of food distributed by various relief agencies in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince February 18, 2010. France will provide 270 million euros (US$366.8 million) over two years to Haiti to help the Caribbean nation's economy recover from a devastating January 12 earthquake, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT FOOD SOCIETY POLITICS) - RTR2AI1Z

Development Financing

U.S. global development leadership in a changing world

Homi Kharas

Monday, July 31, 2017

Blog Posts

A general view shows the Gibe III hydroelectric dam during its inauguration in Shoma Yero village in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region in Ethiopia, December 17, 2016. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RTX2VFXL

Future Development

Why developing countries get stuck with weak institutions and how foreign actors can help

Brad Parks, Mark Buntaine, and Benjamin Buch

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Farmers plant saplings in a rice field on the outskirts of Srinagar June 10, 2015. India's farm economy could contract this fiscal year for the first time in over a decade because of drought, threatening Prime Minister Narendra Modi's drive to lift millions in the countryside out of poverty and bolster his party's support. Picture taken June 10. To match INDIA-ECONOMY/AGRICULTURE REUTERS/Danish Ismail

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Future Development

Can a universal basic income meet universal basic needs?

Boban Varghese Paul

Monday, June 12, 2017

Bank notes of different currencies, including Euro, U.S. Dollar, Turkish Lira or Brazilian Reais, are photographed in Frankfurt, Germany, in this illustration picture taken May 7, 2017. Picture taken May 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/Illustration - RTX3683X

Future Development

How many countries could end extreme poverty tomorrow?

John McArthur

Thursday, June 1, 2017

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Multimedia

Storm clouds hover as a cyclist rides past a field of maize after late rains near Malawi's capital Lilongwe, February 1, 2016. Late rains in Malawi threaten the staple maize crop and have pushed prices to record highs.About 14 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought that has been exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). REUTERS/Mike Hutchings - RTX24Z7D

Africa in focus

Le tonnerre n’est pas toujours suivi de la pluie : Maintenir le progrès vers la réalisation de la vision pour l’Afrique

Amadou Sy, Christina Golubski, and Amy Copley

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

A U.S. Army Marines helicopter is loaded with goods from U.S.relief organization U.S. Aid to be deployed to survivors of the Super Typhoon Haiyan at Tacloban airport November 17, 2013. The Philippine and U.S. Air Forces are flying rice, clothes and drinking water into remote areas of the central Philippines, which are unreachable by vehicles. A massive relief effort is finally kicking into gear, nine days after one of the most powerful typhoons on record wreaked havoc across the impoverished area in the central Philippines with monster winds and a deadly storm surge of sea water. Philippine authorities and international aid agencies face a mounting humanitarian crisis, with the number of people displaced by the catastrophe estimated at 4 million, up from 900,000 late last week. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (PHILIPPINES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT MILITARY) - RTX15GU3

Unpacked

Myths about U.S. foreign aid

George Ingram

Friday, April 7, 2017

Africa in focus

Thunder is not yet rain: Sustaining progress towards realizing Africa’s vision

Amadou Sy, Christina Golubski, and Amy Copley

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

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Investing in inclusive rural transformation: Innovative approaches to financing

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