Cholera vaccines have been given to people in Beira after an outbreak following Cyclone Idai.
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Cyclone Idai showed just how unprepared SADC is to respond to major natural disasters.
Security is tight in Rwanda’s authoritarian state.
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Rwanda has overcome its past to become a development miracle but if it’s not careful, history could repeat itself.
A woman weaves cane sticks to produce baskets in the Maryland community in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.
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Nigeria, like many emerging countries, needs to educate its women at the same rate it does its men to enhance entrepreneurship.
Mali one of the world’s poorest countries would take about 31 years to eradicate poverty.
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Countries with effective governments have reduced income poverty by almost twice the speed.
Early education based on a child’s mother tongue gives them a head start in their literacy and language learning.
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Research shows that mother tongue teaching is the most ideal tool for early child education.
The race is on to find a new head of the World Bank following Jim Yong Kim’s resignation.
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The power dynamics in the World Bank have changed dramatically.
Nicolás Mauro supporters beneath a Hugo Chávez mural.
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Assertive politics is not enough.
Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is eminently qualified to lead the World Bank.
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The World Bank needs to change as part of rethinking the current world order, and giving rising powers and developing countries a meaningful voice.
A World Bank in sync with Donald Trump’s views about climate change and multilateralism would probably help to increase Chin’s role in international development and finance.
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Donald Trump’s pick to head the World Bank could well weaken the organisation’s importance in international development and finance.
Haiti had not yet recovered from its devastating 2010 earthquake when it was hit hard by Hurricane Matthew in 2016. It is one of the world’s most vulnerable nations to climate change.
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Haiti is extremely vulnerable to climate change. It is also very poor. International donors have stepped in to help the country fund climate mitigation, but is the money going where it’s most needed?
The race is on to see who will replace outgoing World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.
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The World Bank’s original governance arrangements have changed much more slowly than the scale and nature of its operations.
A different measure of poverty shows 70% of the world’s poor live in what the World Bank considers middle-income countries.
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The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe.
Many rural communities across Africa have dropped kerosene lighting for various electrical lights.
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A lighting revolution is underway across Africa that’s occurred largely without government or donor involvement.
Emmerson Mnangagwa being sworn-in as the second president of Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe’s new president promised to deliver the country citizens want but the nation remains on edge.
To help with the rebuilding of Syria, we need to curb the rising tide of xenophobia online. Syrian refugees get ready to cross back into war-torn Syria from the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, June 28, 2018.
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One of the World Bank’s mandates is to prepare for the physical and human capital reconstructions of post-conflict Syria. But an image reconstruction of Syrians and of Syrian refugees is also needed
A triumphant Zanu-PF supporter celebrates the Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the presidential race.
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Winners and losers are both trying to win the West’s support for their view.
The latest World Bank report on South Africa identifies land reform as critical factor of addressing the country’s economic challenges.
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The latest World Bank report on South Africa addresses solutions to the country’s economic challenges.
Argentina is just one of a handful of crisis-stricken nations asking the International Monetary Fund for help.
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Some US$4.6 trillion has been made available to stave off financial crises across the world. The problem is that much of this funding is now spoken for, and the list of stricken nations is growing.
The Pan African Parliament in session in Midrand, South Africa.
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Reports of profligacy by the leaders of the Pan African Parliament could further diminish its legitimacy, which is already being questioned .
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana addresses the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters in September 2017.
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Ghanaians respond positively to financial appeals from churches compared to how they respond to paying taxes. Here’s how, and why, Ghana’s government should learn from religious groups.