Global Poverty

Residents walk along an alleyway with an open sewer at the Mukuru slum in Nairobi, Kenya July 19, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Podcast Episode

Learning from the people of Nairobi’s Mukuru slum

Angela R. Pashayan and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Students share a desk during a mathematics class at the Every Nation Academy private school in the city of Makeni in Sierra Leone, April 20, 2012. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Africa in Focus

International education financing will make or break the SDGs

The Hon. Minister David Sengeh and Mathias Esmann

Friday, May 5, 2023

Future Development

The truth about climate action versus economic growth

Vinod Thomas

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Report

A purpose-driven fund to end extreme poverty by 2030

Homi Kharas and John W. McArthur

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Reports

Climate Change

Debt-for-adaptation swaps

Chetan Hebbale and Johannes Urpelainen

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Report

Foresight Africa 2023

Friday, January 27, 2023

Report

Why developing country voices will shape the global climate agenda

Amar Bhattacharya, Homi Kharas, and John W. McArthur

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

A man monitors a drone flying outdoors controlled by his cell phone.

Report

From subsistence to disruptive innovation: Africa, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the future of jobs

Louise Fox and Landry Signé

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Slum houses are seen built along a train track in the Agege district in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos April 12, 2016. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

Report

The evolution of global poverty, 1990-2030

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Blog Posts

Future Development

The forgotten 3 billion

Wolfgang Fengler, Homi Kharas, and Juan Caballero

Friday, October 21, 2022

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Future Development

How to help people in Europe and Central Asia pay their energy bills

Nithin Umapathi

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Vietnamese vendor sitting in front of SHB commercial bank branch

Future Development

Financial development to formalize economies

Salvatore Capasso, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Shu Yu

Friday, September 30, 2022

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Events

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Related Books

Unlocking Africa’s Business Potential

By Landry Signé

2020

Leave No One Behind

Edited by Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, and Izumi Ohno

2019

From Summits to Solutions

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

2018

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Experts

Louise Fox

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

@LouiseFox_econ

Homi Kharas

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

John W. McArthur

Director - Center for Sustainable Development

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

@mcarthur

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Multimedia

Signage for Sarafu on the streets of Mukuru Kayiaba slum in Nairobi, Kenya, July 28, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Kagondu Njagi

Podcast Episode

Challenges in the post-COVID global economic recovery

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Fred Dews

Friday, March 4, 2022

Podcast Episode

Introducing the Foresight Africa podcast, exploring Africa’s dynamism and strategies to benefit all people in the region

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

A customer conducts a mobile money transfer, known as M-Pesa, at a Safaricom agent stall in downtown Nairobi, Kenya October 16, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Podcast Episode

Digital cash transfer infrastructure

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Michael Faye, and Cina Lawson

Thursday, December 23, 2021

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Reports

Keeping the ‘Leave No One Behind’ agenda alive

Breaking the cycle of poverty through innovative finance

Fragility in Chad and counterterrorism strategies in West Africa

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

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

Director - Center for Sustainable Development

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development