Global Development

KMC (Kolkata Mucicipal corporation) health workers check for fever among residents of a slum area in Kolkata midst the 2nd phase of lockdown in India due to covid 19 pandemic. This is to curb the spread of Covid 19 in the country. The second phase is handled with more strict rules by the administration. Kolkata, West Bengal, India April 23, 2020 Photo by Arindam Mukherjee/ABACAPRESS.COM

COVID-19 has revealed a flaw in public health systems. Here’s how to fix it.

Thursday, April 30, 2020

A general view shows the partially empty Reforma Avenue after Mexico's government declared a health emergency on Monday and issued stricter rules aimed at containing the fast-spreading coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mexico City, Mexico March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero

How the Sustainable Development Goals can help cities focus COVID-19 recovery on inclusion, equity, and sustainability

Anthony F. Pipa and Max Bouchet

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

People receive rice donation in front of Saint Joseph Cathedral during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Hanoi, Vietnam April 27, 2020. REUTERS/Kham

Networks: The ties that bind in times of stress

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

A Greenpeace activist makes adjustments while hanging from the ceiling inside a giant model of the globe near Konin open mine, 70 km from Poznan, western Poland December 3, 2008. Greenpeace established a camp to protest against the damage it says the Konin mine is doing to the climate, regional tourism and farming, and against the planned opening of new sites. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel (POLAND) - GM1E4C406SK01

COVID-19 and climate: Your questions, our answers

Pablo Vieira, Stéphane Hallegatte, Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, and Todd Stern

Thursday, April 23, 2020

People ride past a graffiti on a road depicting the coronavirus, as an attempt to raise awareness about the importance of staying at home during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, April 20, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

Global solutions to global ‘bads’: 2 practical proposals to help developing countries deal with the COVID-19 pandemic

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Volunteers gesture as they direct an elderly woman at an ongoing distribution of food parcels, during a lockdown by the authories in efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lagos, Nigeria April 9, 2020. Picture taken April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Ade

A new approach is needed to defeat COVID-19 and fix fragile states

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Workers are seen outside a train on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) and financed by Chinese government in Kimuka, Kenya October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

China and Africa’s debt: Yes to relief, no to blanket forgiveness

Monday, April 20, 2020

Streets lie deserted in the early afternoon during shelter in place orders to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in an aerial photograph in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base

City leadership on sustainable development in the era of COVID-19

Anthony F. Pipa

Monday, April 20, 2020

A man cycles past a wall mural advocating against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Nairobi, Kenya April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

COVID-19 and debt standstill for Africa: The G-20’s action is an important first step that must be complemented, scaled up, and broadened

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Tidjane Thiam, Donald Kaberuka, Vera Songwe, Strive Masiyiwa, Louise Mushikiwabo, and Trevor Manuel

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Medical staff members work at the yet to be used field hospital build to treat a large number of patients due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Africa in the news: African governments, multilaterals address COVID-19 emergency, debt relief

Dhruv Gandhi and Christina Golubski

Saturday, April 18, 2020