Global Development

Oil Pump on orange sunset

What the pandemic reveals about governance, state capture, and natural resources

Daniel Kaufmann

Friday, July 10, 2020

3D render of stock market crashing in a global economy

Unprecedented damage by COVID-19 requires an unprecedented policy response

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu and M. Ayhan Kose

Friday, July 10, 2020

Ahmad Yassin al-Ali and Fawza Umri's children eat together inside their tent, at Atmeh camp, near the Turkish border, Syria June 13, 2020. Picture taken June 13, 2020. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Can we avoid a lost decade of development?

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Farm hands working in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, 30 May, 2020. It's strawberry-planting season. When South Africa moved to Level 4 of the national lockdown at the beginning of this month, the agriculture sector was allowed back to work. However, the wine industry was still stalled as the transport and sale of liquor is prohibited. Photo by Eva-Lotta Jansson/RealTime Images/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use South Africa.

Figures of the week: The effect of COVID-19 on food and income security in Africa

Addisu Lashitew and David Kanos

Thursday, July 9, 2020

VINH, VIETNAM- Hung Binh Junior Highschool students return to class, complying with coronavirus prevention measures such as temperature control and hand washing in Vinh, Vietnam on April 27, 2020. Students from nearly 30 Vietnam's provinces and cities returned to school after a long break from early February due to COVID-19. (NO RESALE)

The International Finance Facility for Education: A vital instrument to mitigate the impact of the pandemic

Pedro Alba and Karen Mathiasen

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Unlocking Africa’s business potential

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A view of tanks containing muds from which gold will be extracted at the gold mine site, operated by Endeavour Mining Corporation in Hounde, Burkina Faso February 13, 2020.Picture taken February 13, 2020.Reuters/Anne Mimault

Supercharging anti-corruption initiatives: The TAP-Plus approach

Victoria Bassetti and Norman Eisen

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

A view shows aid at a warehouse where international humanitarian aid for Venezuela is being stored, during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Colombia’s President Ivan Duque, near the La Unidad cross-border bridge between Colombia and Venezuela in Cucuta, Colombia April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

The next transparency challenge for US aid agencies: Moving from publication to engagement

George Ingram and Sally Paxton

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

A fruit seller is seen in a market amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Adjame a neighbourhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon.

The informal sector in francophone Africa: The other side of weak structural transformation

Nancy Benjamin and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Members of the FCT taskforce on COVID-19 are seen washing their hands during the inspection of the Holy Trinity Catholic church, as worship centers were reopened following the ease of restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Abuja, Nigeria June 7, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

How well has Nigeria responded to COVID-19?

Siddharth Dixit, Yewande Kofoworola Ogundeji, and Obinna Onwujekwe

Thursday, July 2, 2020