Global Development

Children look at an advocacy graffiti by the Mathare Roots's youth group against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Mathare Valley slum, in Nairobi, Kenya April 19, 2020. Picture taken April 19, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

It’s time to help Africa fight the virus

Witney Schneidman

Wednesday, April 29, 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

Internally displaced families receive food items from Nigeria's Victims Support Fund, as the authorities struggle to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Abuja, Nigeria April 14, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Using the Fourth Industrial Revolution to fight COVID-19 around the world

Landry Signé, Sanjeev Khagram, and Julia Goldstein

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Cover: Unlocking Africa's Business Potential

Unlocking Africa’s Business Potential

By Landry Signé

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

Webinar: Global city cooperation in the response to COVID-19

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Migrant labourers rest in cement pipes during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lucknow, India, April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

‘Build back better,’ Brookings economist urges

Wednesday, April 22, 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