Global Economy

Elephant walk during sunset in Amboseli National park, Kenya August 25, 2016. Picture taken August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic - S1BETXRBWFAE

New insights into the distribution of world income

Homi Kharas and Brina Seidel

Monday, April 9, 2018

People gather to pay their respects to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in Durban, South Africa, April 2, 2018. REUTERS/Rogan Ward NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC13F64DE0B0

Africa in the news: Rwanda’s AGOA suspension, leadership transitions, and Mnangagwa’s China trip

Christina Golubski

Friday, April 6, 2018

A man counts the Nigerian naira at a currency exchange market in Ikeja district in Lagos.

Sounding the alarm on Africa’s debt

Indermit Gill and Kenan Karakülah

Friday, April 6, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by ?Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, White House Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert, Assistant to the President Peter Navarro and Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs Everett Eissenstat, delivers remarks before signing a memorandum on intellectual property tariffs on high-tech goods from China, at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC153113ADA0

Why a trade war with China would hurt the U.S. and its allies, too

David Dollar and Zhi Wang

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

An employee of SoftBank Robotics walks with the Robot Assistant Pepper in Paris, France, March 9, 2018. Picture taken March 9, 2018. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau - RC1D026FA390

Social insurance in the time of robots

Maria Gonzalez-Miranda and Ivailo Izvorski

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Workers check the finish on soccer balls before packing them for sale at a factory in Sialkot February 9, 2011. Pakistan's eastern city of Sialkot has been a major source of sports goods for international sports events for decades. Recent exports of sports goods have fallen to an average $290 million from $343 million over the past four years because of decline in Pakistan's share in international markets, according to Pakistan's Federal Bureau of Statistics. Picture taken on February 9, 2011. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed (PAKISTAN - Tags: BUSINESS SPORT SOCCER) - GM1E73L1K5G01

The middle productivity trap: Why are less productive firms systematically lagging behind?

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

FILE PHOTO: A ship docked at the Berbera port, May 17, 2015. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo - RC14AA6A2550

Figures of the week: Africa’s intra- and extra-regional trade

Thursday, March 29, 2018

The new John Lewis store at the Westfield shopping centre in White City is seen in London, Britain. March 19, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls - RC1A6D6B01F0

Is there a middle-class crisis in Europe?

Maurizio Bussolo, Jonathan Karver, and Luis-Felipe López-Calva

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), attends a news conference on the sidelines of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, China March 9, 2018. Picture taken March 9, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song - RC179570F590

China taps top technocrat as new central bank chief

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Children wait to be vaccinated against the most deadly forms of pneumonia at Amistad Mexico-Nicaragua Hospital in Ticauntepe town, about 8 miles (13 kilometres) south of Managua, December 12, 2010. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) said Nicaragua is the first developing nation to begin vaccinating children with the pneumococcal shots, made by drugmakers Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, and another 18 countries will follow in the next few years. Pneumococcal disease, which can cause pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis, kills more than half a million children every year and the vast majority of these deaths are in poorer countries where access to healthcare can be limited and very expensive. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas(NICARAGUA - Tags: HEALTH BUSINESS IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E6CD0OCO01

Are tough times ahead for countries graduating from foreign aid?

Gavin Yamey and Robert Hecht

Thursday, March 8, 2018