Global Development

An employee of online retailer Jumia sorts packages for delivery at the company's warehouse in Lagos February 16, 2015. The growth of Africa's middle class has created demand for products that conventional retail struggles to satisfy due to a shortage of malls and grinding traffic in many cities that deters shoppers. The sector is still in its infancy. The internet's contribution to Africa's gross domestic product stood at 1.1 percent in 2013, much lower than other emerging markets. But this could rise to 10 percent, or $300 billion, by 2025, according to a report by consultants McKinsey's & Company. REUTERS/Joe Penney (NIGERIA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT)

Lessons from Lagos state in addressing youth unemployment

Tejumola Abisoye and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Signage for Sarafu on the streets of Mukuru Kayiaba slum in Nairobi, Kenya, July 28, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Kagondu Njagi

Challenges in the post-COVID global economic recovery

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Fred Dews

Friday, March 4, 2022

A researcher works inside a laboratory at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya May 11, 2020. Picture taken May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Jackson Njehia

Investment in science and technology is key to an Africa economic boom

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Landry Signé, and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Collaboration

What we learned about 17 Rooms and growing the community

Zia Khan and John W. McArthur

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Illustration, women of different faiths

Positive influence of faith for gender equality

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Jean Duff, and Blessing Omakwu

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Residents are seen in the Ivorian cocoa farming village of Djigbadji, commonly known as Bandikro or Bandit Town, located inside the Rapides Grah protected forest and destroyed by forest authorities in January 2020, in Soubre, Ivory Coast January 7, 2021. Picture taken January 7, 2021. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Valuing local knowledge and solutions for SDG progress

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Jamie Drummond, and Kennedy Odede

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Indian teacher and students wearing protective face mask attend their class at a government girls school after the Rajasthan government allowed schools to reopen for VIth to VIIIth classes in Beawar. (Photo by Sumit Saraswat/Pacific Press/Sipa USA) (Photo by Sumit Saraswat/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Reimagining teaching and learning spaces

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Elizabeth M. King, and Urvashi Sahni

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Foresight Africa Podcast

Introducing the Foresight Africa podcast, exploring Africa’s dynamism and strategies to benefit all people in the region

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

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.

Reducing inequality has no easy answers

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

Tuesday, January 18, 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

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

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

Thursday, January 13, 2022