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A worker holds a metal frame at an assembly plant that produces the Vietnamese smartphone BPhone, at BKAV factory, in Hanoi, Vietnam July 5, 2017. REUTERS/Kham - RC1EB392CA80

Future Development

Vietnam’s manufacturing miracle: Lessons for developing countries

Sebastian Eckardt, Deepak Mishra, and Viet Tuan Dinh

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Trainee Mohammad Alhalabi, a 22-year-old refugee from Syria works with a miller at the training workshop of Ford Motor Co in Cologne, Germany, November 3, 2016. Alhalabi is one of 24 trainees of Ford Germany's so-called EQ qualification program to integrate new employees in a booming labour market. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay - S1BEUKUWDAAA

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Migrants and refugees: The unlikely key for economic development

Dany Bahar

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

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Education in Africa: Key challenges and solutions for developing human capital

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Elephant walk during sunset in Amboseli National park, Kenya August 25, 2016. Picture taken August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic - S1BETXRBWFAE

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New insights into the distribution of world income

Homi Kharas and Brina Seidel

Monday, April 9, 2018

Reports

An elephant walks in Amboseli National Park in front of Kilimanjaro Mountain, Kenya, March 19, 2017. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1DB6795A50

Global Development

What’s happening to the world income distribution? The elephant chart revisited

Homi Kharas and Brina Seidel

Monday, April 2, 2018

Children participate in a computing class at an Innova school in the outskirts of Lima, July 3, 2012. With 11 schools and nearly 5,000 students, Innova schools have introduced a new concept between horrendous public schools and traditional private schools for the rich that can cost $1,000 a month. It charges between $95 and $150 a month for what they call a cutting-edge curriculum. Intercorp, the financial holding company of No. 4 Peruvian lender Interbank, plans to open 70 Innova schools nationwide over the next ten years, which would make it the biggest chain of its kind in Latin America. Picture taken July 3, 2012. To match Insight PERU-ECONOMY/PROVINCES REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: BUSINESS EDUCATION SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E88U14VL01

Education

Innovation to leapfrog educational progress in Latin America

Rebecca Winthrop and Adam Barton

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Students attend a class inside a school in a rebel-controlled area of the eastern Ghouta of Damascus, Syria October 19, 2015. The new school year in eastern Ghouta of Damascus was postponed several time this year due to airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on the area in the last weeks, activists said. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh - GF10000250802

Education in Developing Nations

Toward data-driven education systems: Insights into using information to measure results and manage change

Samantha Custer, Elizabeth M. King, Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Lindsay Read, and Tanya Sethi

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

A boy carries on his head a pile of dried shrubs he gathered to use for cooking and heating in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail - GF10000201696

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Leave no country behind

Geoffrey Gertz and Homi Kharas

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

An atrium is seen at the World Bank headquarters building during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC1A8C4E8F00

Developing Economies

The new global agenda and the future of the multilateral development bank system

Amar Bhattacharya, Homi Kharas, Mark Plant, and Annalisa Prizzon

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Blog Posts

A man counts the Nigerian naira at a currency exchange market in Ikeja district in Lagos, Nigeria August 12, 2017. Picture taken August 12, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RC121B2CAC20

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Sounding the alarm on Africa’s debt

Indermit Gill and Kenan Karakülah

Friday, April 6, 2018

People walk by the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., February 8, 2018. REUTERS/ Leah Millis - RC17BD8F7BC0

Future Development

Building a robust US development finance institution

George Ingram

Thursday, March 29, 2018

People walk through debris in the center of Afrin, Syria March 24, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi - RC1D11188460

Future Development

Was the Arab Spring a black-swan event?

Elena Ianchovichina

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

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Voices on US foreign assistance under challenge, part 2: Measuring effectiveness, private sector financing, and foreign aid success stories

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Global Development

Vietnam’s manufacturing miracle: Lessons for developing countries

Migrants and refugees: The unlikely key for economic development

Education in Africa: Key challenges and solutions for developing human capital

New insights into the distribution of world income

Reports

What’s happening to the world income distribution? The elephant chart revisited

Innovation to leapfrog educational progress in Latin America

Toward data-driven education systems: Insights into using information to measure results and manage change

Leave no country behind

The new global agenda and the future of the multilateral development bank system

Blog Posts

Sounding the alarm on Africa’s debt

Building a robust US development finance institution

Was the Arab Spring a black-swan event?

Events

Girls’ life skills programming: Insights from Ethiopia, Lebanon, and Tanzania

Toward data-driven education systems: What information do education leaders want and need?

Education and learning for a changing world

Related Books

Identification Revolution

The Marshall Plan and the Shaping of American Strategy

The Democracy Promotion Paradox

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Voices on US foreign assistance under challenge, part 1: US leadership, fragile states, and ideas for reform

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