Global Development

Teacher Reginald Sikhwari poses for a picture with his class of grade 11 students at Sekano-Ntoane school in Soweto, South Africa, September 17, 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/Siphiwe Sibeko PICTURE 39 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES

Rethinking the critical role of data to improve teaching and learning

Reinier Terwindt, Emily Gustafsson-Wright, and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Thursday, January 30, 2020

A young adult man bikes to work on the Roberto Clemente Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The ‘SDG Effect’: The emerging Pittsburgh platform to deliver the global goals locally

Sarah E. Mendelson

Thursday, January 30, 2020

A man works inside the next generation greenhouse farm in Ikorodu on the outskirt of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, Nigeria, May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

Policy priorities for achieving food and nutrition security by 2030

Simeon Ehui, Holger Kray, and Elliot Mghenyi

Thursday, January 30, 2020

A general view of the skyline from the Makati City Hall in Manila

Growth strategies to avoid the middle-income trap

Homi Kharas and Indermit Gill

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Women work at the Khartoum Stock Exchange in Khartoum, Sudan November 6, 2019. Picture taken November 6, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Figure of the week: Economic gains from increasing female labor force participation in Africa

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Migrants gather as they try to get products from a truck, at a makeshift camp on the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece March 10, 2016. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Foreign assistance accountability in fragile environments

Susanna Campbell and George Ingram

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Election workers start the counting of ballots during the second round of Guinea Bissau's presidential election in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau December 29, 2019. REUTERS/Christophe Van Der Perre

Support for governance in Africa will level the playing field for US commercial engagement with the region

Witney Schneidman

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Staff of Jumia company work on computers at the office in Lagos, Nigeria January 20, 2020. Picture taken January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Computer science can help Africans develop skills of the future

Rebecca Winthrop and Lauren Ziegler

Monday, January 27, 2020

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, Britain January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

Africa in the news: UK-Africa Investment Summit, Turkey’s increased engagement, and Angola fraud scandal

Christina Golubski and Anna Schaeffer

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Fatou Kine works on a customer's order on a sewing machine purchased with money from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in her shop in Guediawaye, Senegal April 16, 2018. Picture taken April 16, 2018. To match Feature EUROPE-MIGRANTS/AFRICA REUTERS/Mikal McAllister

Closing the gender gap in African labor markets is good economics

Andinet Woldemichael

Thursday, January 23, 2020