Global Development

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

A child walks along the street at the start of the lockdown restrictions set by the government to prevent the rampant spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Eastleigh district of Nairobi, Kenya May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

A COVID-19 response for the world’s poor

Erik Berglöf, Gordon Brown, Helen Clark, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Monday, June 8, 2020

A child wearing protective face mask is carried across the border between Colombia and Venezuela at Simon Bolivar international bridge in Cucuta, Colombia March 12, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

What the G-20 should do now

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Erik Berglöf, Helen Clark, and Gordon Brown

Monday, June 8, 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

A pupil, wearing a protective mask, writes on a classroom chalkboard at the Merlan school of Paillet during the reopening of schools, as the lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is eased, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast May 25, 2020. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Education is crucial to Africa’s COVID-19 response

Jean-Marc Bernard, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, and Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, June 4, 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