“Digital mobile technologies help in creating employment. Some 700,000 people in the region have moved away from the poverty trap. They are now middle class citizens.”

Six years after gaining independence, South Sudan is crippled by civil war and hunger. A third of all the schools in the country have been attacked by armed groups and over two million children are no longer able to attend classes and are left to grow up with next to no [...]

Commercial loans did not boost Mozambique’s development; they caused a development disaster.

The heavy rains during the first few months of 2017 left dozens dead and thousands affected in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Were these tragedies avoidable?

The civic strike in Buenaventura, during May of this year, and the repression of activists, accused of vandalism by the government, brought the plight of Afro-descendant Colombians into the global spotlight. But what lies behind these recent [...]

Women are generally given the task of applying pesticides and fertilizers, often without protective gear, and earn less than their male co-workers for the same number of hours.