With food prices escalating globally, there is an urgent need for renewed partnerships between the US and African governments to sustain school meal programs around the continent.

A new political commitment for development effectiveness is urgently needed to drive implementation in support of the 2030 Agenda. The upcoming Geneva Summit is a test of the political will available to drive its implementation in the years ahead.

Mitchell faces a very difficult task. It will help him enormously that he has a clear-eyed sense of the problems he faces and the scale of the challenge. But to reverse them will take decisive action, with support from elsewhere in Whitehall, too. Our note suggests one way to do so.

It's important that the upcoming US-Africa Leaders Summit focuses on much more than aid and security. The Biden administration should say a lot about US financial flows to the region and how they will be improved, but summit commitments must go far beyond that.

Getting a social protection program off the ground includes a myriad of decisions. To whom should the benefits be paid? Should benefits be paid manually or digitally? And what complementary information and services should be bundled with the cash? These design choices—like many others—have implicati...

The world desperately needs new antibiotics—and finally, the G7 is ready match commitments with action. We already found that the US would pay $17.9 billion over 30 years but save 383,000 American lives and harvest $495 billion in value. What would be the benefits to other members of the G7, and who...

The IFC isn’t finding more private sector projects to support in IDA countries even with the backing of both PSW financing and retained earnings used to hire more staff to look for projects. Absent actual projects to invest in, PSW resources are increasingly committed to regional and global faciliti...