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Substantial investments are needed in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and address the climate crisis. Most of these resources will need to be mobilized domestically. We argue that prospects to boost domestic revenue in SSA countries are grim, and future t...

At the World Bank Spring Meetings in April earlier this year, World Bank President, Ajay Banga along with the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Japan’s Minister of Finance, Shunichi Suzuki announced the launch of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Know...

Despite the approaching 2025 deadline for the Global Nutrition Targets, nutrition interventions remain fragmented and poorly integrated into the health system. Many countries continue to struggle with integrating comprehensive nutrition strategies into their health benefits packages to achieve unive...

Welp, that was quite a fortnight. Under normal circumstances I’d be leading with LeBron James defying Father Time YET AGAIN, and LeBron and Steph Curry finally delivering the two-man game that nightmares are made of, or with Mijain Lopez winning his *fifth* gold in a row with another dominant perfor...

See where House and Senate appropriators seem ready to go for the proverbial development gold and what foreign aid spending asks might not make the cut.   

A look at the conditions which enable women’s leadership by contrasting Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a region that is ahead of most in women’s presence in politics, with Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that is currently some steps behind.

Where will the global health community find more resources to support its agenda and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? There are just two solutions to the financing gap—more money and money spent more efficiently. But in the search for resources, policymakers should not neglect what we woul...

The US relies on multilateral institutions like the World Bank to support its foreign policy goals, but the need to compromise with other shareholders can undermine success.

Each year around 169 million people cross borders in search of better economic opportunities, with the largest number migrating to Arab states and the largest share from Southeast Asia and South Asia. These migrants play a crucial role in the economic fabric of both their host and their home countri...