After the renewed closure of the border between Burundi and Rwanda, people living along the border are calling for it to be reopened.

This year’s Human Development Report emphasises the relevance of global public goods and the need for international cooperation.

If the international community splinters into multiple orders, we will lose the race against climate change, social polarisation and biodiversity loss.

Development cooperation is better than the conventional wisdom admits

Official development assistance has helped countries to prosper, and it increasingly serves global public goods.

The international community must address urgent worldwide challenges with full determination

Credit and savings from the village savings and loan schemes are used by Malawians for several purposes. For many, it provides money for common groceries in times when agriculture harvests decline.

The international community has sensible goals, but needs a coherent policy framework to achieve them.

In Ghana, many rural, poor women are left with no option but to take up labour-intensive blue-collar jobs, such as carrying heavy loads with pans on their heads.

For many years, the paradigm was that underdeveloped countries should catch up.