Global Development

Call center agents work overnight daily to cater to United States clients in Manila's Makati financial district February 6, 2012. The number of Filipinos who work graveyard shifts to answer calls on behalf of big multinational companies like Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase is now greater than India's 350,000, earning the Philippine's the title - Call Centre Capital of the World. By 2016, the Philippines wants to double the size of the local BPO market to $25 billion, employing 1.3 million workers from 640,000 at the end of 2011. But to be able to that the Southeast Asian nation must convince investors it has more to offer than a huge pool of english-speaking talent. Picture taken February 6, 2012. To match Analysis OUTSOURCING/PHILIPPINES REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR2Z2A4

Future Development

Future Development Reads: Impact investing, impact sourcing, and international development

Indermit Gill

Friday, May 26, 2017

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

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

Monday, 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

U.S. Congressman David Dreier (2nd L), a monitor for Egypt's presidential election, watches as electoral workers count ballots during the second day of voting, at a polling station in Cairo June 17, 2012. Egyptians began an anxious wait for their first freely elected president on Sunday after two days of voting that was to be the culmination of their Arab Spring revolution but which many fear may now only compound political and economic uncertainty. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR33SJ1

Future Development

Scorecard diplomacy: How grades drive behavior in international relations

Judith Kelley

Monday, May 22, 2017

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte (3-R) speaks during his bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (not pictured) during the Belt and Road Forum, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China May 15, 2017. REUTERS/Etienne Oliveau/Pool - RTX35X8F

Future Development

Future Development Reads: Outcomes from the Belt and Road Forum, flying cars, and solving the plastic waste crisis

Wolfgang Fengler

Friday, May 19, 2017

A Bangladeshi United Nations peacekeeping soldier stands among houses destroyed by violence in September, in the abandoned village of Yade, Central African Republic April 27, 2017. Picture taken April 27, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RTS14D3G

Africa in focus

Africa in the News: African leaders attend China One Belt, One Road summit, violence escalates in Central African Republic, and Cote d’Ivoire mutiny ends

Mariama Sow

Friday, May 19, 2017

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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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The role of the private sector in global sustainable development

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Experts

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Director - Africa Growth Initiative

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Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

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Multimedia

Zhang Yingyi, a 30-year-old administrative assistant and a mother of a three-year-old girl, smiles as she poses for a photograph at her home in Shanghai, China,

Emerging Markets

The global middle class

Homi Kharas and Fred Dews

Friday, May 19, 2017

Children attend the opening of a psychological support centre for children in Da'el town, north of Deraa, Syria, August 1, 2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir - RTX1MONN

Education Plus Development

Skills for a changing world: The global movement to prepare students for the 21st century

Renee McAlpin

Monday, April 24, 2017

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

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