Financial Inclusion

The Emerging Markets Group, a consulting firm, organised a recent workshop on Aligning Private Sector Development Instruments with the focus on Africa; I attended. The report is here. Most of the…

The Economist has a large and very interesting piece on the migration of World Bank thinking towards recognising that 'institutions' are important. Part of the difficulty, as Dani Rodrik…

IMF Chief Economist Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian, IMF Head of Macroeconomic Studies, just released a working paper returning to the contentious question of whether or not aid leads to…

... and the 4th of July - i.e. no work on Monday and BBQs and fireworks here in the US. For those of you abroad, here are some very safe fireworks. Enjoy the weekend!

In light of this week’s release of the 2005 African Development Indicators, here is an online quiz on Africa to test your knowledge. A strong message which jumps out of the report are the strong…