Global Development

An Amazon worker delivers groceries from the Amazon Fresh service in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, November 25, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1EABQ0Z4Z01

The digital revolution—a new weapon against food waste, hunger, and emissions

Heinz Strubenhoff

Thursday, September 6, 2018

A passenger smiles as he looks out of the newly commissioned Abuja light rail train at the station In Abuja, Nigeria July 17, 2018. Picture taken July 17, 2018. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC11A602DF80

Figure of the week: Estimating future energy demand growth in Africa

Thursday, August 23, 2018

An Afghan vendor leads a herd of bulls at a livestock market in Kabul

From fragility to resilience: Recommendations for strengthening USAID’s ‘self-reliance’ approach

George Ingram and Jonathan Papoulidis

Friday, August 17, 2018

Displaced Afghans load aid near the site of a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan province May 5, 2014. Grief-stricken and desititute Afghan villagers vented anger with their government as they scrambled for emergency aid, three days after deadly landslides engulfed their homes. Some 300 homes in Aab Bareek, a village in the Argo district of Badakhshan, a remote and mountainous northeastern province, were buried under up to 50 metres of earth and debris. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: DISASTER) - GM1EA56055K01

The case against a US retreat from international development

Friday, August 10, 2018

A researcher works on his terminal at the Microsoft India research centre in Bangalore June 24, 2009. Staffed with about 60 full-time researchers, many of them Indians with PhDs from top universities in the United States, the centre is at the cutting edge of Microsoft's R&D. It covers seven areas of research including mobility and cryptography. Its success, including developing a popular tool for Microsoft's new search engine Bing, underscores the potential of R&D in India at a time when cost-conscious firms are keen to offshore to save money by using talented researchers abroad. To match feature INDIA-R&D/ REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe (INDIA SCI TECH BUSINESS) - GM1E57L0LK701

Developing statistical capacity in low-income countries

Ryuichi Tomizawa and Noriharu Masugi

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Heavy machinery is seen at Frontier copper mine in Fungurume, southern Democratic Republic of Congo May 25, 2010. Production at First Quantum Minerals' Frontier copper mine in Congo continued round the clock on Wednesday, despite a court decision to revoke the Canadian miner's license. Picture taken May 25, 2010. REUTERS/Katrina Manson (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC of CONGO - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS) - GM1E65R079Q01

7 surprising findings about resource-rich sub-Saharan Africa

Ivailo Izvorski

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

A Jordanian employee paints a handcrafted salver at a Beit al Bawadi ceramics workshop in Amman January 7, 2014. The Beit al Bawadi ceramic workshop was set up by non-profit organisation Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD) to provide employment opportunities for Jordanian youths. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1EA1800K501

Female labor force participation is about more than economics

Mayyada Abu Jaber

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Medics wearing protective gear examine a patient at a hospital in Kozhikode in the southern state of Kerala, India May 21, 2018. Picture taken May 21, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer - RC187C8595D0

Containing a deadly virus: Lessons from the Nipah outbreak in India

Monday, July 23, 2018

A farmer checks on his crop of tomatos in Tipaza, west of Algiers, Algeria June 3, 2015. Besides falling energy revenues, Algeria also has a growing number of mouths to feed, with the population put at 40 million and increasing by an estimated one million a year. Main foodstuffs, including cereals, sugar and milk are subsidised, but there is no such help for some products such as vegetables, which keeps prices high. Official statistics show the state imports on average five million tonnes of wheat and barley a year, but that figure appears to be climbing. It hit some 7.4 million in 2014. Algeria last year took its first steps towards opening up the farming sector to foreign investors, inviting bids for 16 state-owned farms focused on grains, vegetables, fruit trees and cattle breeding. Picture taken June 3, 2015. To match story ALGERIA-AGRICULTURE/ REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina - GF10000120888

Micro and macro aid complement each other: A response to ‘broken aid’

Friday, July 20, 2018

A solar panel is pictured on the roof of Jean-Noel Kouame's house, on the outer limits of the main city Abidjan's vast urban sprawl, Ivory Coast December 18, 2017. Picture taken December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon - RC1ECCAAF400

Figures of the week: Africa’s energy innovation landscape

Friday, July 20, 2018