Global Development

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

Is a growing middle class good for the poor?

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New Delhi, India

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

The evolving US diplomatic and foreign aid budget: What do these changes mean for Africa?

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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

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?

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

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Up Front

Productive equity and why it matters to the G-20

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

Thursday, June 29, 2017

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A blueprint for maximizing the impact of U.S. foreign aid

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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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Global Development

Is Africa still rising?

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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

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Thursday, May 25, 2017

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Garment workers sew skirts at a Timex garments factory in Wattala, Sri Lanka May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte - RTX361QQ

Purchase orders can get you a long way: export diversification in developed versus developing countries

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

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 Reads: Air conditioning and economic development

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

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

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

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

Notes from the G-20 high-level conference on the Compact with Africa

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

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

Pandemics and the poor

Ben Oppenheim and Gavin Yamey

Monday, June 19, 2017