Global Development

Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema presents his national statement as a part of the World Leaders' Summit at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain November 1, 2021. Andy Buchanan/Pool via REUTERS

Zambia’s success will be Africa’s success

H.E. Hakainde Hichilema

Friday, January 21, 2022

Smart Green House in Bogor, West Java

The digital transformation of agriculture in Indonesia

Friday, January 21, 2022

Foresight Africa 2022

Join the conversation on the top priorities for Africa in 2022

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Brookings Africa Growth Initiative Foresight Africa 2022

Foresight Africa 2022

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Foresight Africa 2022 Chapter 1

Africa’s economic recovery: Financing robust post-pandemic growth

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Foresight Africa, chapter 5

Technological innovations: Creating and harnessing tools for improved livelihoods

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Foresight Africa 2022, chapter 6

Africa’s external relations: Reinventing and pursuing new partnerships

Marie-Noelle Nwokolo and Greg Mills

Thursday, January 20, 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 McArthur, Elizabeth M. King, and Urvashi Sahni

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Upcoming DAC peer review is an opportunity to advance US development goals

George Ingram and Anthony F. Pipa

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

DNA in test tube

Breakthrough: The promise of frontier technologies for sustainable development

Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Izumi Ohno

Tuesday, January 18, 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 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

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

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

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

Thursday, January 13, 2022

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

4 positive stories about global development prospects in 2022

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

Making human waste a resource at scale

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

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Hopscotch.

Social and development impact bonds by the numbers

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

Monday, January 3, 2022