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The Trump administration hopes that a free trade agreement with Nairobi will be a counterweight to Beijing’s growing role across Africa and a model for bilateral deals with others on the [...]

WASHINGTON — Small agencies that work alone, siloed off from the rest of a country’s development work: That’s how development finance institutions might have been described just a decade ago. But [...]

The long-term impact of microcredit on peoples’ lives is limited: new research reveals it can help more people by modifying and extending its model. Microcredit is frequently touted as an [...]

African countries need to develop the environment and infrastructure to capitalize on the opportunities of a global digital economy that is poised to rake in over $60 trillion in revenues by [...]

Over the past decade, important progress has been made on poverty reduction, disease control and access to healthcare, education and services. However, these gains are fragile, and are undermined [...]

What is 5G? 5G is an upgrade of 4G technology with three main advantages. It can move more data faster than 4G, it is more responsive (quicker) and it can connect more devices at one time. But, [...]

Immigrants have been given a tag that negatively depicts who they are and fails to show the various benefits they bring to the countries they immigrate to. Before the eyes of many natives and on [...]

From delivery drones to self-driving cars and chatbots, technology may be rapidly transforming the way the world shops, works and interacts. But in Africa, digitalization is on the cusp of [...]

Preparing Africa’s graduates for today’s jobs Many Africans with advanced qualifications are finding their university degrees are just not enough to land a job in the current market. Ruth Rono [...]

Delivering enough food to feed the world’s population requires farmers to overcome a series of often-unpredictable challenges, related to factors such as climate change, water scarcity, lack of [...]