Economic Development

Containers are seen at a port terminal in Bizerte, Tunisia, March 27, 2018. Picture taken March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC1740C51860

MENA’s economic integration in an era of fragmentation

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

General Motors production workers Dina Mays and Joseph Stanton work on the 10-speed transmission assembly at the General Motors (GM) Powertrain Transmission plant in Toledo, Ohio, U.S. March 6, 2019. Picture taken March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook - RC18171696D0

Trump counties may be winning a bit more, but their prognosis remains dim

Mark Muro and Jacob Whiton

May 7, 2019

A woman holds a sign reading "Macri, enough with the IMF," during a protest against the Group 20 summit, in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 28, 2018. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci - RC1E56843680

Argentina, from bad to worse

Saturday, May 4, 2019

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer speak to reporters after their meeting on infrastructure with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC151F7F92D0

What to make of the White House infrastructure meeting?

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

A visitor uses a touchscreen inside a dome during a European Space Expo, running under the auspices of the European Commission in Athens' Syntagma Square, March 28, 2015. REUTERS/Kostas Tsironis - GF10000041752

Thriving with technology in Greece

Christian Bodewig and Wolfgang Fengler

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Construction workers erect scaffolding at the site of metro station as a SpiceJet Airlines aircraft flies past in the southern Indian city of Chennai May 14, 2012. Growth in Asia's third-largest economy is slowing as costlier credit and the impact of Europe's debt crisis on exports have sapped expansion. Gross domestic product rose 6.1 percent in December quarter from a year earlier, the slowest pace in near three years. REUTERS/Babu (INDIA - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - GM1E85E1KU101

Economic geography bites back

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Eritrea's director-general of the Department of Mines Alem Kibreab displays a gold piece during a Reuters interview inside his office in the capital Asmara, February 16, 2016. Eritrea expects to have four mines in operation by 2018 producing gold, copper, zinc and potash as one of Africa's poorest nations looks to build an industry that can kick-start its economy, a top mining official told Reuters. To match Interview ERITREA-MINING/REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - GF10000323043

Figure of the week: Natural resource governance in Africa

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

NYT op-ed

The best way to rejuvenate rural America? Invest in cities

Amy Liu and Nathan Arnosti

New York Times Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Panelists discuss the prospect of another debt crisis in sub-Saharan Africa.

A conversation on sub-Saharan Africa’s debt situation

Christina Golubski

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Bastian Remmel, an employee of German manufacturer of industrial robots and automation solutions KUKA, poses for pictures at the company's training center in Augsburg, Germany, March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert - RC195B733B00

Do digital technologies widen productivity gaps?

Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Gaurav Nayyar

Tuesday, April 23, 2019