With focused and courageous policy decisions, Burkina Faso’s government can cover the country’s poor with an effective and efficient safety…
Children put to sleep on the ground, exposed to sun, wind and rain near dangerous construction sites – while their…
The April issue of the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook (WEO) included a chapter on how globalisation has helped…
For many developing countries, foreign direct investment (FDI) has become the largest source of external finance, surpassing official development assistance,…
Manufacturing expansion has been a vehicle for job creation, productivity increases, and growth in non-advanced economies since the second half…
For more than a hundred years, electrical grids have been built with the assumption that electricity has to be generated,…
More than 1.5 billion people – about one in five of the global population – live in what the World…
Envision the world economy as a complex, interconnected array of financial engines whose propulsion helps reinforce one another’s momentum. One…
By Shanta Devarajan A snapshot of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region today reveals a diverse and discouraging…
Brazil’s macroeconomic management faces four major immediate challenges. The response to them will be strengthened if economic agents could have…