Global Poverty

Report

Foresight Africa 2023

Friday, January 27, 2023

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

Reports

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

Report

Foresight Africa 2022

Thursday, January 20, 2022

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

Blog Posts

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Future Development

Fighting poverty with hope: Lessons from the life of Fazle Hasan Abed

Scott MacMillan

Monday, September 12, 2022

Future Development

Food insecurity and economic misery in low-income countries

Carlos Arteta and Sergiy Kasyanenko

Friday, July 1, 2022

Future Development

Digital public technology can help drive sustainable development progress

George Ingram, John W. McArthur, and Priya Vora

Wednesday, June 15, 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

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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