Global Poverty

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN -9.26.2019 The event was dedicated to the Global Week on the Global Climate Strike and International Climate Action Summit .March on Sustainable Development Goals

Podcast Episode

What’s next for the world?

John McArthur

What Could Go Right?

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Workers make clothes at an apparel manufacturing company in Enshi city, south China's Hubei province, 21 November 2020.Xuan'en County introduced apparel manufacturing enterprises beside the relocation sites in Shadaogou Town and Gaoluo Town to help with employment. So far, it has helped more than 900 people who were relocated to obtain employment and increase income.No Use China. No Use France.

Future Development

What’s next for poverty reduction policies in China?

Maria Ana Lugo, Martin Raiser, and Ruslan Yemtsov

Friday, September 24, 2021

Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos (2nd-L) poses for pictures with crew mates, from left, Oliver Damen, 18, Bezos, Wally Funk, 82, and Mark Bezos at the landing pad after they flew on Blue Origin's inaugural flight to the edge of space, in the nearby town of Van Horn, Texas, U.S. July 20, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

Future Development

On space barons and global poverty

Harun Onder

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Future Development

Can national statistical offices shape the data revolution?

Juan Daniel Oviedo, Katharina Fenz, François Fonteneau, and Simon Riedl

Friday, September 3, 2021

Reports

Daily wage laborers and homeless people wait in a queue to receive free food during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi. (Photo by Amarjeet Kumar Singh / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Report

Extreme poverty in the time of COVID-19

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Essay

Human development: Protecting vulnerable populations

Jakkie Cilliers and Stellah Kwasi

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Antananarivo / Madagascar - October 21, 2011: Laundry hangs on clothes lines on balconies of a run down high-rise apart.ment building

Report

Poverty hotspots and the correlates of subnational development

Raj M. Desai, Homi Kharas, and Selen Özdoğan

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

North Korean bank note, Jan 25, 2020 : North Korean bank notes displayed for sale at a pavilion, just south of the border between the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Jae-Won/AFLO) (SOUTH KOREA) No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

Report

What do we know about poverty in North Korea?

Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Olha Danylo, Steffen Fritz, Martin Hofer, Homi Kharas, and Juan Carlos Laso Bayas

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

A child sits outside a locked shack in Nkaneng township, Marikana's informal settlement, in Rustenburg

Report

Poverty, hunger, and malnutrition: Challenges and breakthroughs for rural revitalization

Homi Kharas and Lorenz Noe

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Blog Posts

Residents walk through a walkway as a man connects electricity above the power transformer in a village in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Africa in Focus

COVID-19 and poverty’s impact on electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa

Tamara White

Monday, July 12, 2021

Homeless people wait in a queue to receive free food during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19),in New Delhi. (Photo by Amarjeet Kumar Singh / SOPA Imag/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Future Development

Long-run impacts of COVID-19 on extreme poverty

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Future Development

How AI-powered poverty maps can increase equity in the COVID-19 response

Laura McGorman, Guanghua Chi, and Han Fang

Friday, May 7, 2021

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Events

2021

May

Past Event

Fragility in Chad and counterterrorism strategies in West Africa

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Leave no one behind: Time for specifics on the sustainable development goals

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

The new dynamics of global energy and climate: A conversation with Sustainable Energy for All CEO Rachel Kyte

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

Washington, DC

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Related Books

Unlocking Africa’s Business Potential

By Landry Signé

2020

Leave No One Behind

Edited by Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Izumi Ohno

2019

From Summits to Solutions

Edited by Raj M. Desai, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas, and John McArthur

2018

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Experts

Homi Kharas

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development

John McArthur

Director - Center for Sustainable Development

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

@mcarthur

Raj M. Desai

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Multimedia

A man checks his phone while waiting in a long queue to enter a wholesale market to buy a cake for Mother's Day celebrations, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico May 8, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Podcast Episode

The future of global development: How the pandemic is upending development finance

Homi Kharas

A Deeper Look

Thursday, May 14, 2020

A couple wearing protective face masks walk along the Villa 31 slum, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Buenos Aires, Argentina May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

Podcast Episode

Addressing COVID-19 in resource-poor and fragile countries

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Paul H. Wise

Saturday, May 9, 2020

Volunteers serve lunch at a community kitchen set-up by USAID and World Food Programme in Cucuta, Colombia February 7, 2019. REUTERS/Marco Bello - RC1AED504B00

Podcast Episode

Will foreign aid matter in the 2020 election?

Merrell Tuck-Primdahl and Fred Dews

Friday, August 30, 2019

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