Global Development

An apartment complex for labourers who work at a shoe factory is seen in the city of Wenzhou, in Zhejiang province February 18, 2011. Labour shortages in Chinese coastal factories are nothing new. The world's workshop has been churning out the exports again after hitting a lull during the global financial crisis. But workers are becoming more choosy about the kind of jobs they want, eschewing the long hours, tedious work and poor benefits offered in China's many sweatshops. What's more, competition for labour is now coming from new factories in China's rapidly urbanising interior. To match Special Report CHINA-LABOUR/ Picture taken on February 18, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR2J0WC

Future Development

Future Development Reads: Air conditioning and economic development

Indermit Gill

Friday, June 23, 2017

A boy fries cassava grains in a tray on a locally made firewood stove in Ikarama village on the outskirts of the Bayelsa state capital, Yenagoa, in Nigeria's delta region October 8, 2015. Tensions are building in the swampland of the Niger Delta as an amnesty that aimed to bring stability to Nigeria's volatile southern region is due to expire at the end of the year. While the region's towns and cities are mostly calm, local residents say kidnappings and armed robberies are on the increase in the mangrove swamps, where most oil wells are located. Former military ruler and Muslim northerner President Muhammadu Buhari said in his inauguration speech in May that he might "streamline" the amnesty, implemented in 2009 by his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian like most of the Delta population. The deal aimed to pacify militants fighting for a greater share of oil revenues in Africa's biggest crude producer. At risk are payouts worth $300 million a year to 30,000 youths, money designed to discourage them from blowing up pipelines or kidnapping oil workers in a region where basic services are almost non-existent. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye PICTURE 9 OF 24 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "TENSIONS IN THE NIGER DELTA". SEARCH " DELTA TENSION" FOR ALL IMAGES. - RTS4ECU

Future Development

New finance for old (technology) problems? Saving the planet with better cook stoves

Lauren Masatsugu and Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

Thursday, June 22, 2017

An agricultural worker prepares a piece of bark taken from a laboratory-developed rubber tree sapling which he will clone by transplanting it on to the shoot of a wild rubber tree sapling in Ivory Coast, in this file photo taken July 17, 2007. Angry at graft and disorder in Ivory Coast's cocoa sector, farmer Anini Kouakou spoke out on national television earlier this year against corrupt officials he says are siphoning off farmers' cash. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/Files (IVORY COAST) TO MATCH FEATURE RUBBER-IVORYCOAST/ - RTR1SA7U

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Sub-Saharan African agricultural research spending trends

Amy Copley

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, June 12, 2017. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - RTS16RAU

Africa in focus

Notes from the G-20 High-Level Conference on the Compact with Africa

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Reports

Workers cast shadows as they stroll among the office towers Sydney's Barangaroo business district in Australia's largest city, May 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Reed - RTS15LMP

Business & Industry

Combining good business and good development

Raj M. Desai, Homi Kharas, and Magdi Amin

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

A mine shaft is seen at the Tumela Mine , an Anglo American open pit mine located in the north-western part of South Africa in Thabazimbi, Limpopo province,June 9,2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTX2FWX5

Global Development

Closing the financing gap for African energy infrastructure: Trends, challenges, and opportunities

Amadou Sy and Amy Copley

April 17, 2017

A worker walks between shipping containers at a port in Tokyo

Global Development

Why trade facilitation matters now more than ever

Antoni Estevadeordal

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Skills for a Changing World - Philippines

Developing Economies

Skills for a changing world: National perspectives and the global movement

Esther Care, Helyn Kim, Kate Anderson, and Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

A worker welds steel bars at a construction site for a new train station in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, December 6, 2012. Annual growth in China's factory output, investment and retail sales may have gained pace in November thanks to recent pro-growth policies, a Reuters poll showed, reducing the chances for further policy support as inflation picks up. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION TRANSPORT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

Global Development

Addressing the accelerating labor market dislocation from digitalization

Roger Burkhardt and Colin I. Bradford

Monday, March 20, 2017

Blog Posts

A health worker injects a woman with an Ebola vaccine during a trial in Monrovia, February 2, 2015. Liberia began a trial of experimental Ebola vaccines on Monday, involving thousands of volunteers as part of an effort to slow the spread of the deadly haemorrhagic fever and prevent future outbreaks. The epidemic has killed more than 8,800 people in West Africa since it began more than a year ago, overwhelming weak healthcare systems in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Its spread now appears to be slowing, especially in Liberia which currently has just a handful of cases. REUTERS/James Giahyue (LIBERIA - Tags: DISASTER HEALTH) - RTR4NX6S

Future Development

Pandemics and the poor

Ben Oppenheim and Gavin Yamey

Monday, June 19, 2017

A woman draws money from an ATM machine in Tehran May 4, 2008. With Western banks cutting ties with the Islamic Republic, it is becoming more and more difficult to transfer funds to the country of 70 million people. Tehran's increasing financial isolation is forcing some to bring in money by hand in thick wads of $100 bills on the plane from Dubai, the Gulf's financial centre, or elsewhere. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN)

Future Development

Can universal basic income boost financial inclusion and transparency?

Leora Klapper

Thursday, June 15, 2017

A Philippine army soldier counts boxes containing tent material from U.S. relief organisation USAID, as he prepares the load to be deployed by airlift by the U.S. Air Force to victims of super typhoon Haiyan, at a Manila airport November 13, 2013. Philippine officials have been overwhelmed by Haiyan, one of the strongest typhoons on record, which tore through the central Philippines on Friday and flattened Tacloban, coastal capital of Leyte province where officials had feared 10,000 people died, many drowning in a tsunami-like wall of seawater. REUTERS/Wolfgang Ratay (PHILIPPINES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT MILITARY) - RTX15B3E

Up Front

USAID can take transparency to the next level

George Ingram

Monday, June 12, 2017

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Events

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Opportunities and challenges for development lending in the Asia-Pacific

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New global and regional trends: Political and economic implications for Latin America

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Side of democracy: America’s responsibilities now

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Experts

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Director - Africa Growth Initiative

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Multimedia

A woman stitches leather gloves at the Pittards world class leather manufacturing company in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa

Global Development

Is Africa still rising?

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Fred Dews

Friday, May 26, 2017

Unidentified government officials stand on used vegetable oil tins donated by the U.S. at a food distribution point near Jijiga, eastern Ethiopia December 1, 2009. Aid workers in Ethiopia will investigate how foreign humanitarian relief supplies are delivered after opposition political parties alleged that their members were being denied food ahead of elections in May. Picture taken December 1, 2009. REUTERS/Barry Malone (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS FOOD CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTXS2K0

Global Development

On proposed budget cuts to foreign assistance programs

George Ingram

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Schoolgirls queue up to receive from authorities at government school in Mumbai

Education Plus Development

WATCH: What are the key ingredients to scaling quality learning?

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss

Thursday, May 25, 2017

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