Global Development

Men look at the Nairobi skyline from observation point on the top of the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, June 21, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC1D930C2460

Africa in focus

Prerequisites to getting Africa’s urbanization ‘right’

Somik V. Lall

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Africa in focus

Strategies for delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals: Some lessons from Rwanda

Uzziel Ndagijimana

Monday, January 20, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron (3-R), flanked by Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (2-L), Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore (R), Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou (2-R), Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani (L) and Chad's President Idriss Deby (3-R), speaks during a press conference as part of the G5 Sahel summit on the situation in the Sahel region at the Chateau de Pau in Pau, France, January 13, 2020. Photo by Quentin Top/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: WAEMU’s eco implementation, Sahel security update, and Foresight Africa launch

Payce Madden

Saturday, January 18, 2020

Brookings Now

Charts of the Week: The Sustainable Development Goals

Fred Dews

Friday, January 17, 2020

Reports

Policy 2020

Building public support for foreign assistance

George Ingram

Monday, January 13, 2020

Report

A continental strategy for economic diversification through the AfCFTA and intellectual property rights

Vera Songwe

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Report

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and digitization will transform Africa into a global powerhouse

Njuguna Ndung’u and Landry Signé

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Report

Exploring new sources of large-scale job creation: The potential role of Industries Without Smokestacks

Zaakhir Asmal, Haroon Bhorat, and John Page

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Report

Good and inclusive governance is imperative for Africa’s future

John Mukum Mbaku

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Blog Posts

Liberian banknotes are pictured at a money changer's stand in Monrovia, Liberia September 21, 2018. REUTERS/Derick Snyder

Africa in focus

Approaches for better resource mobilization to finance Africa’s Sustainable Development Goals

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Friday, January 17, 2020

People walk past Prada's fashion store in downtown Milan February 4, 2015. The trend in luxury goods is to drum up same store sales by curbing expansion and wowing customers with new products, yet Prada continues to pay over the odds to open swanky new shops and stock them with handbags little changed from previous bestsellers. Prada, say analysts, now urgently needs to focus less on new stores and more on new handbags. Picture taken February 4. To match Analysis PRADA-STRATEGY/ REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini (ITALY - Tags: BUSINESS FASHION)

Future Development

Who gained from global growth last decade—and who will benefit by 2030?

Homi Kharas

Thursday, January 16, 2020

A displaced girl is tested for malaria at an MSF clinic in Tomping camp, where some 17,000 displaced people who fled their homes are being sheltered by the United Nations, in Juba January 10, 2014. Violence erupted in South Sudan's capital Juba in mid-December and spread to oil-producing regions and beyond, dividing the two-year-old land-locked country along ethnic lines. Some 60,000 civilians are being protected at U.N. Bases. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY HEALTH)

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Poverty and health care SDG projections in sub-Saharan Africa

Dhruv Gandhi

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

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Multimedia

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Global Economy

Is China undermining the global economic order or helping build it?

David Dollar and Wang Huiyao

Monday, December 9, 2019

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Podcast Episode

How universities can help tackle global challenges

Maysa Jalbout and Fred Dews

Friday, November 29, 2019

A child writes with chalk on a wall to celebrate Shreepanchami festival at Saraswati temple in Kathmandu, Nepal February 1, 2017. Children are given their first writing and reading lessons at the temple during this festival in the belief that the goddess of education Saraswati will help them excel in education. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC197B507EC0

Future Development

People, places, and problems: Time for specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals

David Batcheck

Friday, October 25, 2019

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Reports

Foresight Africa: Top priorities for Africa over the next decade

The great reversal: How America gave up on free markets

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