Global Development

Workers look on as a cargo ship approaches a terminal at the port of Qingdao in Shandong province, China November 8, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC1BD4412950

How to fight a trade war: Turn the other cheek

Shanta Devarajan

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

People walk through the streets of a shopping area in Addis Ababa May 26, 2014. Ethiopia has pushed the door ajar for foreign retailers keen to enter the fast-growing market of 90 million people, welcoming them as managers but keeping the state in control. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: BUSINESS) - GM1EA5R05A501

Figures of the week: Doing business in sub-Saharan Africa

Friday, November 9, 2018

Farmers transport teff from their farm in the town of Woliso, Oromia region, Ethiopia, October 22, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri SEARCH "ETHIOPIA OROMOS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1FD5352200

Fragile states and the search for ‘what works’

George Ingram and Jonathan Papoulidis

Thursday, November 8, 2018

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim makes remarks at the Plenary Session of the IMF and World Bank's 2017 Annual Fall Meetings, in Washington, U.S., October 13, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Theiler - RC1820C71280

The fate of the World Bank during a divided US government

Christopher Kilby

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Workers clean some fish in the Paloquemao market square in Bogota, Colombia October 30, 2018. Picture taken October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez - RC157F8BB830

Should governments favor small firms with special tax regimes?

Monday, November 5, 2018

Women stand in line for food aid distribution delivered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and world food program in the village of Makunzi Wali, Central African Republic, April 27, 2017. Picture taken April 27, 2017 REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC132928B970

Figures of the week: Realizing the full potential of social safety nets in Africa

Friday, November 2, 2018

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim (R) and UN Secertary General Antonio Guterres (C) attend a seminar at International Monetary Fund - World Bank Annual Meeting 2018 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, 13 October 2018. REUTERS/Johannes P. Christo - RC1709F00870

The shifting landscape for international development institutions

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Sofia Braendstroem of Sweden looks at a wall of to-do notes in the office of the HowDo,a "how-to-do-it-yourself" app, start-up at the Wostel co-working space in Berlin March 18, 2013. Europe must urgently tackle youth unemployment, the French, German and Italian governments said May 28, 2013, urging action to rescue an entire generation who fear they will not find jobs. Some 7.5 million Europeans aged 15-24 are neither in employment nor in education or training, according to EU data. Youth unemployment in the EU stood at 23.6 percent in January, more than twice as high as the adult rate. Picture taken March 18, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - BM2E9460VHJ01

A new manual for transforming the social sector

Thursday, October 25, 2018

A transit truck joined the main Mombasa road from the Southern bypass road under construction next to the Nairobi national park in Kenya's capital Nairobi, March 4, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo - S1BETDUZYLAB

Integrate regionally for stronger, sustainable growth in resource-rich sub-Saharan Africa

Ivailo Izvorski and Djeneba Doumbia

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Barack Obama sits opposite Norman Eisen in the Oval Office seating area.

Obama’s anti-corruption antidote: Can it work globally?

Tuesday, October 23, 2018