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Financial Times guest writers Aubrey Hruby and Dawda Jawara III cite the work of Vijaya Ramachandran and Ben Leo on the demand for infrastructure investment in Africa. 

On the US response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti: Several years later, a lot of the new housing and other promised aid hadn't materialized. Ben Leo, an analyst with the Center for Global Development — it's a non-partisan thinktank — says to this day: "We still have ab...

“If Power Africa works, then it would deliver a huge boost for African countries,” Ben Leo, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington and a former White House director of Africa affairs, said in an e-mail. “Addressing the energy poverty challenge will take ...

In the first week of August, official delegations from 50 African countries came to Washington to attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. The meeting was typical in its extraordinary pageantry, overzealous security, and relative lack of tangible accomplishments. [...] Yet there was one outcome with ...

Leo: "Power by all accounts is one of the most binding constraints for growth and economic opps in Sub Saharan Africa. You look at all the different statistics, the figures, the surveys, and it's at the very top of the list." [0:55] ... Leo: "By taking this approach [of expandin...

“The overwhelming majority of the African leaders are going to be coming to Washington [for the U.S.-Africa Summit] emphasising trade and investment, and in that context this issue is very central to their many constituencies – touching on economic, political and social issues,” Be...

In less than a month, Washington will play host to roughly 50 African heads of state, hundreds of cabinet-level ministers, and over a thousand American and African business leaders and investors. It will be a truly historic moment. More importantly, it will be an unparalleled opportunity to advance ...

Ben Leo and Beth Schwanke discuss how to better target people's top aid priorities in this op-ed. 

Todd Moss and Ben Leo's blog on OPIC natural gas investment is referenced in an article about Power Africa.