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26 Jul 2022
Global Economy

Poverty
“Silver lining”: Covid‑19 accelerates progress on financial inclusion

Clay O’Brien

Access to financial services can be a key to poverty reduction and increased digitisation during lockdowns has helped.
11 May 2022
China – Belt and Road Initiative

Development Assistance

Southeast Asia

Poverty
Mapping Southeast Asian development assistance

Teesta Prakash , Alexandre Dayant

A new measure of foreign aid impact in countries hit by Covid and infrastructure failure is set to fill the gap.
8 Mar 2021
Poverty

Coronavirus

Sex and Gender
Food security and Covid-19: Recognising women’s leadership

Over half the world’s farmers and food producers are women. A study will look at their experiences in the covid crisis.
14 Aug 2020
Poverty

Multilateral Institutions

Climate change

Coronavirus
World order in the time of coronavirus

Bobo Lo

Blame China and Russia. But the real cause of breakdown in the “rules-based international order” lies with the West.