Global Development

FILE PHOTO: A worker gestures in front of steel bars at a Highveld Steel plant, which has a manufacturing agreement with ArcelorMittal steel company, in Middleburg, South Africa June 6, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo - RC1C7C2AB6F0

The potential of manufacturing and industrialization in Africa

Thursday, September 20, 2018

An open toilet is seen in a field in Gorba in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh, India

What panel data tell us about toilets in India

Indermit Gill and Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Homi Kharas delivered the keynote address at IFPRI’s annual staff retreat on September 12, 2018. He explored the evolving development agenda and its implications for policy research.

Homi Kharas

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Pupils sit in a classroom at the Hausari primary school in Michika village, northeast Nigeria June 12, 2017. Picture taken June 12, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RC1608963540

Education for fragile states

Homi Kharas and Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Newly displaced Syrians arrive to a refugee camp in Atimah village, Idlib province, Syria September 11, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi - RC1C3AA07CD0

The Idlib agreement and other pieces of the Syrian puzzle

Omer M. Karasapan

Monday, September 17, 2018

South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago speaks at IMFC joint press conference with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde during the IMF/World Bank spring meeting in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC1983EAB0E0

How should official development assistance be allocated across countries?

Homi Kharas and Lorenz Noe

Friday, September 14, 2018

A woman draws water from a well in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad March 30, 2015. REUTERS/Caren Firouz - GF10000043990

How many people will the world leave behind?

Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Krista Rasmussen

Friday, September 14, 2018

An aerial view shows workers at the Alltex export processing zone (EPZ) factory in Athi River, near the Kenyan capital Nairobi, July 31, 2009. Kenya's exports to the United States rose 8 percent to 20.6 billion shillings ($268 million) in 2008, largely due to U.S. legislation to promote African trade, Kenya's trade minister Amos Kimunya said. The U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has granted duty-free access for many sub-Saharan African nations' products since 2000. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E57V1NWZ01

Meeting Africa’s employment challenge in a changing world

Tilman Altenburg and Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Fatima Paola Pizarro (L), holds her daughter Aitana Pizarro at her grandparent's home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico May 8, 2018. Fatima is the daughter of Marcelino Pizarro who lives in El Paso, U.S. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez SEARCH "MARCELINO PIZARRO" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1EC57A0B00

International migration: What happens to those left behind?

Milena Nikolova, Carol Graham, and Artjoms Ivlevs

Thursday, September 13, 2018

An Amazon worker delivers groceries from the Amazon Fresh service in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, November 25, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1EABQ0Z4Z01

The digital revolution—a new weapon against food waste, hunger, and emissions

Heinz Strubenhoff

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Development Seminar | Towards more globally competitive gas markets

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Is India ready to JAM?

Shamika Ravi

Monday, August 27, 2018

A woman, who has been displaced by floods, uses a USAID box to move her belongings while taking refuge on an embankment at Chandan Mori village in Dadu, some 320 km (199 miles) north of Karachi October 10, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E6AA1O2701

Trump tries to cut foreign aid without Congress

George Ingram

Thursday, August 23, 2018

A passenger smiles as he looks out of the newly commissioned Abuja light rail train at the station In Abuja, Nigeria July 17, 2018. Picture taken July 17, 2018. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC11A602DF80

Figure of the week: Estimating future energy demand growth in Africa

Amy Copley

Thursday, August 23, 2018

An Afghan vendor leads a herd of bulls at a livestock market in Kabul

From fragility to resilience: Recommendations for strengthening USAID’s ‘self-reliance’ approach

George Ingram and Jonathan Papoulidis

Friday, August 17, 2018

People stand beside a truck loaded with sacks of flour received from The United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

If the US doesn’t lead on foreign assistance, who will?

Merrell Tuck-Primdahl and Fred Dews

Friday, August 17, 2018

A labourer walks along a Metro-line construction in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa February 7, 2015. Chinese workers mingle with Ethiopians putting the finishing touches to a city metro line that cuts through Addis Ababa, one of a series of grand state infrastructure projects that Ethiopia hopes will help it mimic Asia's industrial rise.To match Insight ETHIOPIA-ECONOMY/. Picture taken February 7, 2015. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION CITYSCAPE) - GM1EB281I6C01

Mobilizing private investment and the Compact with Africa: A preliminary assessment and steps ahead

Rob Floyd, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Jann Lay, Rainer Thiele, and Jing Gu

Monday, August 13, 2018

Displaced Afghans load aid near the site of a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan province May 5, 2014. Grief-stricken and desititute Afghan villagers vented anger with their government as they scrambled for emergency aid, three days after deadly landslides engulfed their homes. Some 300 homes in Aab Bareek, a village in the Argo district of Badakhshan, a remote and mountainous northeastern province, were buried under up to 50 metres of earth and debris. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: DISASTER) - GM1EA56055K01

The case against a US retreat from international development

John R. Allen

Friday, August 10, 2018

A researcher works on his terminal at the Microsoft India research centre in Bangalore June 24, 2009. Staffed with about 60 full-time researchers, many of them Indians with PhDs from top universities in the United States, the centre is at the cutting edge of Microsoft's R&D. It covers seven areas of research including mobility and cryptography. Its success, including developing a popular tool for Microsoft's new search engine Bing, underscores the potential of R&D in India at a time when cost-conscious firms are keen to offshore to save money by using talented researchers abroad. To match feature INDIA-R&D/ REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe (INDIA SCI TECH BUSINESS) - GM1E57L0LK701

Developing statistical capacity in low-income countries

Ryuichi Tomizawa and Noriharu Masugi

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Invigorating US leadership in global development

8:40 AM - Friday Aug 03, 2018 12:20 PM MDT

Aspen, Colorado