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Foreign aid allocation, governance, and economic growth

Foreign aid to developing countries is a subject of heated debate among politicians, economists, and development specialists. Does aid promote economic growth and reduce poverty?

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Improving regional fertilizer markets in West Africa

In 2000, the member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) signaled their commitment to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal of halving hunger and poverty by 2015 (MDG1).

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Growth is good, but is not enough to improve nutrition

While it is generally agreed that growth is a necessary precondition for reducing poverty, relatively little is known about the relationship between economic growth and nutrition and, hence, how economic policies can be leveraged to improve nutrition
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Cross-sectoral coordination in the public sector

Healthy and active lives for all require adequate access to food, care, employment, health services, and a healthy environment. None of these determinants of good health and nutrition is sufficient by itself; all of them are necessary.

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Economics of the Arab awakening

From revolution to transformation and food security

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Economics of the Arab awakening [in Arabic]

ثمة عدد قليل من المراقبين استشرف تلك التغيرات الجذرية التي شهدها العالم العربي خلال الأشهر القليلة الماضية.

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Économie du printemps arabe

Rares sont les observateurs qui auraient pu prédire les changements dramatiques survenus dans le monde arabe au cours des derniers mois.

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Die wirtschaftlichen Ursachen des Arabischen Frühlings

Kaum jemand hätte den dramatischen Wandel, der sich in den letzten Monaten in der arabischen Welt abgespielt hat, für möglich gehalten.

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Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth

There is a growing consensus that reducing childhood malnutrition is a critically important goal, but there is far less agreement on what strategies can best achieve the goal.