Global Development

Customer service agents are seen at the Jumia customer service office in Lagos, Nigeria January 20, 2020. Picture taken January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Job creation for youth in Africa: Skills needs and gaps for industries without smokestacks

Christopher Rooney and Zaakhir Asmal

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

An employee of tech start-up Sendy, which offers online logistics services, works on her computer at their office in Nairobi, Kenya, October 30, 2018. Picture taken October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: A methodological framework

Haroon Bhorat, Caitlin Allen, Zaakhir Asmal, Robert Hill, and Christopher Rooney

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

A textile worker is seen on a fabric production line at a factory in Qingdao, Shandong province, China February 14, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

The future of global manufacturing

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Karim Foda

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

South African rand

New trends in illicit financial flows from Africa

Monday, March 2, 2020

Currency symbols float over a map of Africa

Illicit financial flows in Africa: Drivers, destinations, and policy options

Landry Signé, Mariama Sow, and Payce Madden

Monday, March 2, 2020

Stack of $100 bills

Debt: The dose makes the poison

M. Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara

Friday, February 28, 2020

A slum dweller opens the door of a pay pit latrine in Kibera slum within Nairobi, Kenya February 27, 2019. Picture taken February 27, 2019. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

Figures of the week: Service delivery in Africa’s urban areas

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Faithful pray during a Sunday Mass in Saint Joseph Cathedral in Bambari, Central African Republic, October 18, 2015. Pope Francis' first Africa trip will highlight the problems of building dialog between Christianity and Islam as both religions grow fast on the continent, threatening to widen an already volatile fault line there between them. Picture taken October 18. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Higher power to deliver: The overlooked nexus between religion and development

Paul M. Bisca and Rebekka Grun

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Demonstrators march during a protest against the austerity measures mandated by the IMF during President Mauricio Macri's administration, in Buenos Aires, Argentina October 31, 2019. The banner reads: "The debt is to the people, not to the IMF." REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

Why are reforms proposed by economists opposed by citizens?

Monday, February 24, 2020

A Turkana woman walks inside her makeshift house in Lobei village of Turkana district in northwest Kenya, October 2, 2009. The Turkana people are among the worst affected by the drought since they have also lost the ability to migrate as a result of conflict with the neighbouring communities leading to livestock deaths as a result of extreme heat, lack water and lack of pasture. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT CONFLICT)

To move the needle on ending extreme poverty, focus on rural areas

Homi Kharas, Constanza Di Nucci, Kristofer Hamel, and Baldwin Tong

Friday, February 21, 2020