Global Development

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago state in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC1510574D80

Trump and Xi at the G-20: Why bilateralism won’t work

Saturday, December 1, 2018

People attend a protest against the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner - RC1244588330

How should development organizations work with populist governments?

Massimiliano Santini 

Thursday, November 29, 2018

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (C) poses for G-20 finance ministers and central banks governors family photo during the IMF/World Bank spring meeting in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC14DAD6E380

Making the global financial system work for all: A message for the G-20

Thursday, November 29, 2018

A general view of the Downtown skyline with the 110 Freeway in the foreground in Los Angeles, California March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni - GF10000366649

Can US cities help the world achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?

Anthony F. Pipa

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Children of the Satere Mawe Indian tribe school at the Sahu Ape village pose for a picture in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil, July 10, 2015. Nearly three years after Taliban gunmen shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist last week urged world leaders gathered in New York to help millions more children go to school. World Teachers' Day falls on 5 October, a Unesco initiative highlighting the work of educators struggling to teach children amid intimidation in Pakistan, conflict in Syria or poverty in Vietnam. Even so, there have been some improvements: the number of children not attending primary school has plummeted to an estimated 57 million worldwide in 2015, the U.N. says, down from 100 million 15 years ago. Reuters photographers have documented learning around the world, from well-resourced schools to pupils crammed into corridors in the Philippines, on boats in Brazil or in crowded classrooms in Burundi. REUTERS/Bruno KellyPICTURE 13 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000226436

Prioritizing public schooling over social transfers in Brazil

Martin Raiser and Joao Pedro Azevedo

Monday, November 26, 2018

An ampule of one of the new therapeutics in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 25, 2018. Picture taken August 25, 2018. WHO/Junior Kannah/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1C7DAF2060

We need a consensus on the definition of ‘global public goods for health’

Gavin Yamey, Osondu Ogbuoji, and Kaci Kennedy McDade

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

An employee of clothing retailer Arena Modna Kuca sews in the company's factory in the Adriatic town of Pula July 1, 2014. Picture taken July 1, 2014. To match Special Report BALKANS-SALARIES/ REUTERS/Antonio Bronic (CROATIA - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY TEXTILE) - GM1EA7A0T0S01

How economic integration can increase living standards in the Western Balkans

Christoph Ungerer, Marco Hernandez, and Gallina A. Vincelette

Monday, November 19, 2018

Vehicles pass by on a road near the construction site of the new Great Mosque, which is being built by the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), in Algiers, Algeria January 20, 2016. Algeria is turning to China for external financing for several infrastructure projects including a new $3.2 billion port as the North African OPEC state looks to weather the collapse in global oil prices. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina - GF20000101188

What happens when development cooperation becomes development competition

Friday, November 16, 2018

An injured man, who was among the people evacuated on Monday from the two Syrian besieged Shi'ite towns of al-Foua and Kefraya, receives treatment at a hospital in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon December 29, 2015. A U.N. operation to evacuate around 450 Syrian fighters and their families from two besieged Syrian areas was completed on Monday with the arrival of planes carrying them to Beirut and Hatay airport in Turkey, U.N. and airport sources said. REUTERS/Aziz Taher - GF10000277887

The challenges in providing health care to Syrian refugees

Thursday, November 15, 2018

A woman combs her hair in the back courtyard of a traditional colonial-era Board House dating back about a century in the Murray Town neighbourhood of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown April 28, 2012. Board Houses are a reconstruction of cabin-like structures built in the 18th century on the American eastern seaboard. There were some modifications though, notably a three-foot base layer of porous local stone (seen here) that helped anchor the house down during Sierra Leone's torrential wet season. Picture taken April 28, 2012. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS - PICTURE 06 OF 29 OF PACKAGE 'FREETOWN - FADING ARCHITECTURE' - GM1E8531KOM01

Why the World Bank is taking a wide-angle view of poverty

Wednesday, November 14, 2018