“We need to encourage women to believe in themselves and that it is possible for them to come out of poverty.” – Dr. Julian Adyeri Omalla, CEO Delight Uganda LTD, one of Africa’s fastest-growing…

The world's poorest countries will need access to scaled up amounts of sustainable financing and a redoubling of efforts to address debt vulnerabilities.

We can rise to the challenge of a green, resilient and inclusive recovery from COVID, but only if critical changes are made.

Using daily data for 158 countries from January to August 2020, our research reveals that coronavirus containment measures CCMs have been broadly effective in slowing the spread of COVID-19 and…

Policymakers, development partners, parents, and other stakeholders need information on children’s learning outcomes, and countries need to generate data in a way that can foster improvements in…

Supply chain financing: An effective way for development banks to support small entrepreneurs

Coordinated economic inclusion interventions can provide a valuable pathway out of extreme poverty.

Algeria, like the entire MENA region, has been hit by economic shocks exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital transformation, one of Algeria’s main development goals before the crisis, is…

Two thousand years ago, the story goes, an itinerant carpenter-prophet in Palestine met a woman who had suffered with a bleeding condition for twelve years. She had gone to see this man because…

In the border communities of the Great Lakes Region (GLR), small-scale cross border trade (SSCBT) is a source of income and livelihood.