Global Development

On March 11, 2021 a coalition of healthcare advocacy community organizations gathered outside Pfizer Worldwide Headquarters in Manhattan to call on the Biden administration to push pharmaceutical companies to commit to equitable global gaccine distribution and help end the pandemic everywhere by supporting the waiver of the World Trade Organizations monopoly protections for Big Pharma and the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool and to ensure an equitable vaccine distribution throughout the world. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Reducing inequality has no easy answers

Zia Khan, John McArthur, Martín Abregú, and Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

A boy poses for a picture under a massive Bangladeshi flag, during a flag rally three days ahead of the country's 50th Victory Day anniversary, in front of the parliamentary building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 13, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Future Development

Success despite the odds: South Sudan and Bangladesh

Shanta Devarajan

Friday, January 14, 2022

A boy walks past makeshift toilets erected beneath electricity pylons, ahead of local government elections in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, October 27, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Podcast Episode

New targets and metrics for energy reliability, productivity, and quality

Zia Khan, John McArthur, Todd Moss, and Clare Boland Ross

Thursday, January 13, 2022

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Foresight Africa: Top priorities for Africa in 2022

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Global Development

Social and development impact bonds by the numbers

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Izzy Boggild-Jones, Onyeka Nwabunnia, and Sarah Osborne

Monday, January 3, 2022

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA- Students return to classrooms, amid the easing of quarantine and the gradual opening of the country in Durban, South Africa on June 8, 2020. Since March 19, the beginning of strict confinement decreed by the president Cyril Ramaphosa to combat the covid-19 pandemic, South African schools had been closed. By virtue of a relaxation, this Monday (8) the secondary classes were officially resumed throughout the territory. (NO RESALE)

Report

How have impact bond-funded projects in low- and middle-income countries fared in COVID-19?

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Sarah Osborne, and Emily Crane

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Report

Increasing girls’ access to formal agricultural education in Afghanistan

Nangyalai Attal

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Birbhum, West Bengal / India - 18th August 2020: Aadhaar and PAN cards on wooden floor while a smart phone with mAadhaar app held in hand

Report

Digital government: Foundations for global development and democracy

George Ingram and Meagan Dooley

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Essay

Coming together: Forging new paths to action for the Sustainable Development Goals

John McArthur, Zia Khan, and Jacob Taylor

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Blog Posts

Mexican Red Cross paramedics press on her arm after receiving a booster shot of the AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Future Development

4 positive stories about global development prospects in 2022

Homi Kharas

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

An Ethiopian Airlines Cargo terminal worker looks on as he offloads a shipment of Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that arrived under the COVAX scheme, at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 19, 2021. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Up Front

Is the world now paying the price of not doing enough to help developing world COVID-19 vaccination efforts?

Dany Bahar

Friday, January 7, 2022

Children wearing masks sit in a classroom at a school in Mumbai August 10, 2009. Masks were distributed by Shiv Sena, the Hindu hardline party, at the school to as a preventive measure against the H1N1 influenza outbreak in western India. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe (INDIA HEALTH SOCIETY POLITICS EDUCATION)

Education Plus Development

A review of the global impact bonds market in 2021 and what to expect in 2022

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Sarah Osborne

Thursday, January 6, 2022

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Experts

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Multimedia

FILE PHOTO: Scuba divers swim past fish along a coral reef off the west coast of Zanzibar island, Tanzania, December 4, 2007. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (TANZANIA)/File Photo

Podcast Episode

A local problem-solving framework that benefits people and oceans

Zia Khan, John McArthur, Lisa Dreier, and David Obura

Thursday, January 6, 2022

A close view of a local community public toilet in Kibera.World Toilet Day is an official United Nations international observance day on 19 November to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis Worldwide. This is always set as a reminder of proper sanitation and the importance of having a toilet across our local neighborhoods to avoid the spreading and contracting of diseases amongst ourselves and also protect our waters and climate against pollution from the disposal of flying toilet bags. (Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Making human waste a resource at scale

Zia Khan, John McArthur, Letitia Obeng, and Jennifer Sara

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

A villager goes through the process of a fingerprint scanner for the Unique Identification (UID) database system at an enrolment centre at Merta district in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan February 22, 2013. In a more ambitious version of programmes that have slashed poverty in Brazil and Mexico, the Indian government has begun to use the UID database, known as Aadhaar, to make direct cash transfers to the poor, in an attempt to cut out frauds who siphon billions of dollars from welfare schemes. Picture taken February 22, 2013. REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY POVERTY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)

Podcast Episode

Digital public goods for SDG attainment

Zia Khan, John McArthur, Lucy Harris, Sanjay Jain, and Liv Marte Kristiansen Nordhaug

Thursday, December 30, 2021

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Reports

Breakthrough: Harnessing technology for a better future

Technology, inequality, and democracy

Greater transparency for development finance institutions

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