Global Development

Agriculture

Don’t forget about the impact of COVID-19 on the rural poor and on food security

Johannes F. Linn

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

People are pictured in front of closed shops of a market, as the authorities prepare to disinfect the markets amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

What to do about the coming debt crisis in developing countries

Monday, April 13, 2020

A police officer is pictured at a road block while the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Abuja, Nigeria April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Africa in the news: COVID-19 impacts African economies and daily lives; clashes in the Sahel

Dhruv Gandhi, Anna Schaeffer, and Payce Madden

Saturday, April 11, 2020

A HOPE lady receives an HPV self-testing kit at her workplace in the market in Pachacutec, Peru (Credit: Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies)

New hope for fixing health system failures to prevent and treat cervical cancer

Andrea Thoumi, Lillian Zhu, Rachel Mundaden, and Karina Moreno Bueno

Friday, April 10, 2020

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA.- In the photo taken on March 29, 2020, People queued in front of grocery stores across the Western Cape on the first day of the closure due to the Coronavirus outbreak. South Africa announced its first two deaths from coronavirus on Friday as the number of cases in the country exceeded 1,000, at the start of a three-week quarantine.

Africa needs debt relief to fight COVID-19

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

Thursday, April 9, 2020

A food vendor, popularly known as a "Mama Put", arranges her sets of pots and plates on a table in Abuja, Nigeria, January 25, 2020. Picture taken January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Social distancing unlikely to hold up in Africa without a safety net for microentrepreneurs

Addisu Lashitew

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Haitians who are homeless and stranded in the country and Venezuelan immigrants receive food aid from the church during the quarantine and mandatory immobilization as the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Lima, Peru March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Civil society: An essential ingredient of development

Monday, April 6, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A gas station attendant pumps fuel into a car at the NNPC Mega petrol station in Abuja, Nigeria, March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo

As oil prices plummet, how can resource-rich countries diversify their economies?

Addisu Lashitew, Michael Ross, and Eric Werker

Friday, April 3, 2020

Drilling equipment is seen at the Sindbad oil field near the Iraqi-Iranian border in Basra, Iraq April 23, 2018. Picture taken April 23, 2018. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani

What drives successful economic diversification in resource-rich countries?

Addisu Lashitew, Michael Ross, and Eric Werker

Friday, April 3, 2020

A child is given a measles vaccination during an emergency campaign run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Likasa, Mongala province in northern Democratic Republic of Congo March 3, 2020. Picture taken March 3, 2020. REUTERS/Hereward Holland

Ebola lessons for fighting COVID-19

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Thursday, April 2, 2020