Global Poverty

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

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.

Op-Ed

The post-pandemic whiplash awaiting the world’s poor

Kaushik Basu

Friday, June 4, 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

Report

Extreme poverty in the time of COVID-19

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Reports

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

A girl walks towards her family's tent at a refugee camp for people displaced by fightings between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State militants in Ain Issa, Syria October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro - RC182B251DD0

Global Development

Global development disrupted: Findings from a survey of 93 leaders

George Ingram and Kristin M. Lord

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Blog Posts

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

Lagos, Nigeria.-In the photos, it shows the streets of Lagos during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. David Nabarro, special adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO) urged governments not to use quarantine as the main strategy to control the spread of COVID-19 and warned of the increase in poverty as a result of the restrictions . "At the World Health Organization we do not advocate quarantines as the main means of controlling this virus," Nabarro said.

Future Development

Poverty and fragility: Where will the poor live in 2030?

Jasmin Baier, Marina Buch Kristensen, and Søren Davidsen

Monday, April 19, 2021

People wearing protective face masks wait in line in front of Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) stand inside a Carrefour hypermarket ahead of Black Friday, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, Egypt November 26, 2020. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Order from Chaos

In the Middle East, poverty is down but economic grievance is up. Why?

Steven Heydemann

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

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Events

2021

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Fragility in Chad and counterterrorism strategies in West Africa

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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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Experts

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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

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Global Poverty

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

The post-pandemic whiplash awaiting the world’s poor

Long-run impacts of COVID-19 on extreme poverty

Extreme poverty in the time of COVID-19

Reports

Human development: Protecting vulnerable populations

Poverty hotspots and the correlates of subnational development

What do we know about poverty in North Korea?

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

Global development disrupted: Findings from a survey of 93 leaders

Blog Posts

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

Poverty and fragility: Where will the poor live in 2030?

In the Middle East, poverty is down but economic grievance is up. Why?

Events

Fragility in Chad and counterterrorism strategies in West Africa

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

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

Related Books

Unlocking Africa’s Business Potential

Leave No One Behind

From Summits to Solutions

Experts

Homi Kharas

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

Raj M. Desai

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Multimedia

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

Addressing COVID-19 in resource-poor and fragile countries

Will foreign aid matter in the 2020 election?

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