Global Development

A woman uses a hand pump to collect drinking water on Ghoramara Island, India, September 22, 2018. Picture taken on September 22, 2018. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri - RC138069BE00

The future of aid: How the global development business is evolving

Thursday, May 30, 2019

A man carries buckets of water at a vegetable field, near a new residential compound, in Hefei, Anhui province, November 13, 2013. The Chinese Communist Party said it would work to deepen fiscal and tax reform, establish a unified land market in cities and the countryside, give farmers more property rights, and develop a sustainable social security system - all seen as necessary for putting the world's second-largest economy on a more stable footing. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: AGRICULTURE SOCIETY POLITICS) - GM1E9BD1HLE01

Is inequality really on the rise?

Ana Revenga and Meagan Dooley

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Traffic passes along a street with buildings under construction in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, September 16, 2013. When global drinks giant Diageo bought a brewery in Ethiopia, it paid a premium for a stake in a barely tapped African market that in the 1980s had spectacularly failed to feed its own population. Ethiopia is now sub-Saharan Africa's fifth biggest economy, leap-frogging next door Kenya and wooing investors from Sweden, Britain and China, as other emerging markets lose some of their shine. Picture taken September 16, 2013. To match Insight ETHIOPIA-ECONOMY/ REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - GM1E99I040U01

Figure of the week: Governance and economic growth in Africa

Thursday, May 23, 2019

A customer stands by as a vendor calculates at a shop near the village of al-Jaraib, in the northwestern province of Hajjah, Yemen, February 20, 2019. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah SEARCH "YEMEN HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC18893184D0

Global poverty reduction has slowed down—again

Homi Kharas, Kristofer Hamel, Martin Hofer, and Baldwin Tong

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Manufacturers work at an assembly line of Vingroup's Vsmart phone in Hai Phong,Vietnam December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Kham - RC16DDBFE340

How can Vietnam avoid the middle-income trap?

Sebastian Eckardt and Vu Viet Ngoan

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Election officials seal ballot boxes at the end of voting in South Africa's parliamentary and provincial elections at a polling station in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 8,2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RC197F6624B0

Africa in the news: Election results in South Africa, low wages in Ethiopia, and new World Bank funding for Africa

Saturday, May 11, 2019

Men attend a charity event to distribute meals for homeless people near a cathedral in Russia's southern city of Stavropol November 19, 2014. The charity event was organized by social movements, the Russian Orthodox church and held by former drug and alcohol addicts undergoing rehabilitation, who cooked and distributed food among the homeless, according to organizers. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko (RUSSIA - Tags: SOCIETY FOOD POVERTY) - GM1EABJ1C3W01

Can Russia halve poverty by 2024?

Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Aleksandra Posarac, and Apurva Sanghi

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Workers stand on a ladder at a new condominium construction in Jakarta's business district June 11, 2015. Indonesian property shares all rose in October when it became clear that reform-minded Joko Widodo would be president, but as Southeast Asia's biggest economy charts a weaker course this year, stock investors are keen to separate the wheat from the chaff. Picture taken June 11, 2015. REUTERS/Beawiharta - GF10000124918

How emerging markets are moving beyond neoliberalism

Geoffrey Gertz and Homi Kharas

Thursday, May 2, 2019

Senegal's President Macky Sall and Chinese President Xi Jinping enter the stadium during the opening ceremony of the Arene Nationale du Senegal in Dakar, Senegal July 22, 2018. REUTERS/Mikal McAllister - RC1CB00541E0

One year on, the role of the China International Development Cooperation Administration remains cloudy

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

The owner of a "Kirana" or mom-and-pop grocery store accepts money from a customer in his shop in Mumbai December 7, 2012. The Indian government won a second parliament vote on Friday on allowing foreign supermarkets into the country, paving the way for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to press ahead with more reforms, including freeing up a cash-strapped insurance sector. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD) - GM1E8C71Q3R01

Measuring the gap between ability and effort in domestic revenue mobilization

Ipchita Bharali and Indermit Gill

Monday, April 29, 2019