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April 6, 2012
Development
Reforming Egypt’s Untenable Subsidies
Addressing Egypt’s economically debilitating subsidy system will be hard amid political transition, but with the country’s social contract under review, the time is ripe for reform needed to put the …
February 2, 2011
Development
Egypt’s Uphill Economic Struggles
Whatever change follows Egypt’s political turbulence, any new government will have to confront the country’s rampant unemployment, cronyism, and other factors impeding growth and development, in addi…
June 20, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Segovia: A New Player in Cash Transfers
For several years now I’ve been following the progress of an innovative new philanthropy: GiveDirectly. Its cofounders, Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus, started the organization in 2008 while doing the…
May 16, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
World Bank Report on Women’s Empowerment Breaks New Ground
Over the past several decades, the World Bank has been an important thought leader on the value of investing in women and girls. In 2001, the Bank released a seminal report, “Engendering Development …
April 3, 2014
Energy and Environment
The Potential of Clean Cookstoves
For decades, global health experts have recognized that smoke from indoor cooking is a major contributor to premature death. Yet, in poor countries around the world, some 3 billion people still rely…
