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Sahrawi students attend a class in Carlo Giuliani school at Dakhla's refugee camp, near Tindouf in southwestern Algeria April 17, 2008. REUTERS/Dani Cardona (ALGERIA) - RTR1ZLOF

Future Development

Teachers’ salaries: Too many bucks for the bang?

Jishnu Das

Friday, July 21, 2017

A cargo ship crosses behind Kroo Bay slum in Freetown, January 23, 2014. As evening falls over Sierra Leone's Banana Island archipelago, bats stream from their beachside roosts to circle in their thousands over the jungle village of Dublin. Below them a struggle is playing out over an unexpected commodity - the lowly sea cucumber, a fleshy, sausage-shaped creature that scavenges for food on the seabed. While the Banana Islanders have no use for sea cucumbers, in China they are prized for their medicinal properties and as a natural aphrodisiac. Picture taken January 23, 2014. To match Feature LEONE-SEACUCUMBERS/ REUTERS/Tommy Trenchard (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: ANIMALS BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY POLITICS MARITIME) - RTR3NHJC

Future Development

Six steps to start changing how Africa does development

Souleymane Coulibaly

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

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Participants of the G20 summit and their spouses pose for a family photo around German Chancellor Angela Merkel (5thL) and her husband Joachim Sauer (6thL) at the Elbphilharmonie before attending a concert in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017. REUTERS/LUDOVIC MARIN/Pool - RTX3AJJC

Global Development

Investors hope for cooperation at the G-20 Summit

Amar Bhattacharya

July 06, 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

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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

Internally displaced Afghans at a camp outside Kabul, Afghanistan, during a visit by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Josh Smith - RTS170LZ

Future Development

The internally displaced in the Middle East and North Africa: Harbingers of future conflict?

Omer Karasapan

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Up Front

Productive equity and why it matters to the G-20

Zia Qureshi

Monday, July 3, 2017

People swim in the Celeste river waterfall at Tenorio Volcano National Park in Upala March 18, 2008. The blue color of the lagoon, formed from chemical reactions of calcium carbonate and sulfur, is surrounded by amazing rainforest of 12,819 hectares of this park. The Celeste river carries its color for a distance of 36 km (22 miles). REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate (COSTA RICA) - RTR1YHOD

Future Development

Industrial policies versus public goods to spur growth

Norman Loayza

Thursday, June 29, 2017

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Friday, May 26, 2017

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