In 1994, a brutal genocide ripped Rwanda apart, robbing people of their families and loved ones. 800,000 people were killed in 100 days, and lives were destroyed. Twenty years later, Rwanda is healing from this tragedy but there’s still a …
Last month I joined Justin Lin – the ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank and something of a rock star in the world of development economics – to talk at a conference in Geneva organised by the Donor Committee for …
Right now, Afghanistan is on the cusp of a series of profound changes. The international troops are drawing down and the process to elect a new President is underway. All of these changes are leading to an economic transition. When …
What do we mean when we say we are creating jobs in developing countries? That's not as easy to answer as it might first appear. For a start, few people in developing countries are ‘unemployed’ as we might use the …
Two years have whizzed past since I first arrived to work in Tanzania and was sent straight down to the capital Dodoma to attend the Parliament (Bunge) budget debate. I’m now at the likely mid-point of my assignment, so it’s …
If a week is a long time in politics, how long is 10 years in development? Back in 2010, Government and development partners agreed that Ghana should be aiming to no longer need aid by 2020. In the last few …
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