Global Development

A Chinese clerk counts RMB (renminbi) yuan banknotes at a bank in Nantong city, east China's Jiangsu province, 24 July 2018.China's yuan weakened against the dollar on Friday (27 July 2018), breaching the key 6.8 per dollar level, dragged lower by a weaker midpoint and fears of further depreciation amid Sino-U.S. trade tensions. Large state-run banks offering dollars in the yuan forwards market, however, helped the renminbi pare some of its earlier losses by midday, although the yuan is set for its seventh week of losses - its longest losing streak since November 2015. Major Chinese state banks were seen swapping dollars for yuan in the forwards markets as they had the previous day, two traders said. Their operations dragged one-year tenor dollar/yuan swap points down into negative territory. No Use China. No Use France.

China’s debt relief for Africa: Emerging deliberations

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Soccer Football - Euro 2020 Qualifier - Group B - Ukraine v Portugal - NSC Olympiyskiy, Kiev, Ukraine - October 14, 2019 Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo reacts REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

What do Vietnam and Cristiano Ronaldo have in common?

Jacques Morisset

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL- The local government enabled more than two thousand new beds for patients with Covid-19 in Pernambuco, Brazil on May 25, 2020. Six Brazilian states are already experiencing the collapse of their healthcare infrastructure, including private clinics and hospitals , due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, as reported by the president of the Brazilian National Health Confederation, Breno Monteiro. The problem was identified in Amazonas, Pará, Ceará, Pernambuco, Maranhão and Rio de Janeiro.

You can’t fight pandemics without power—electric power

Rob Fetter, Anthony Fuller, Jem Porcaro, and Cyrus Sinai

Friday, June 5, 2020

EL SALVADOR, BRAZIL-The local government continues to distribute free masks in the communities of Salvador, Brazil on May 28, 2020. Brazilian authorities recorded 418,608 cases of Covid-19, 25,935 deaths and 190,845 recovered in the country.

Developing countries can respond to COVID-19 in ways that are swift, at scale, and successful

Larry Cooley and Johannes F. Linn

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Children listen to the explanations of teacher Angela Melad on how to wash their hands at the KiGa Hutten kindergarten during the first day back as Switzerland eases the lockdown measures during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Zurich, Switzerland May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

The case for more international cooperation in education

Christopher J. Thomas

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

A trader wearing protective hand gloves counts Indian currency notes at a market during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kochi, India, March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Sivaram V

Fiscal policy for COVID-19 and beyond

Rabah Arezki and Shanta Devarajan

Friday, May 29, 2020

Seven year old Barack Obama, named after U.S. President Barack Obama distributes books to his classmates at the Senator Obama primary school in Nyangoma village in Kogelo west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 16, 2015. Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia in July, his third major trip to Sub-Saharan Africa after travelling to Ghana in 2009 and to Tanzania, Senegal and South Africa in 2011. He has also visited Egypt, in North Africa, and South Africa for Nelson Mandela's funeral. Obama will be welcomed by a continent that had expected closer attention from a man they claim as their son, a sentiment felt acutely in the Kenyan village where the 44th U.S. president's father is buried. Picture taken July 16, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Learning in East Africa: Where are children advancing

Katharina Fenz, Kristofer Hamel, and Baldwin Tong

Thursday, May 28, 2020

An employee closes coffee bags at the Central Kenya Coffee Mill near Nyeri, Kenya, March 15, 2018. Picture taken March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Industries without smokestacks: Constraints to growth

Thursday, May 28, 2020

A building and a sculpture are reflected on glass in a wealthy neighborhood, during a general quarantine imposed due to a surge of fresh coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, in Santiago, Chile May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Financing and debt management for emerging market economies

José Antonio Ocampo

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

A woman sells fried chicken at her open stall along a street, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Nairobi, Kenya April 19, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Impact of COVID-19 on micro, small, and medium businesses in Uganda

Corti Paul Lakuma and Nathan Sunday

Tuesday, May 19, 2020