Are we closer to ending rural hunger? (Homi Kharas, John McArthur, Brookings)

Sunday, October 16th was World Food Day, a day to reflect on the fact that almost 800 million people remain chronically hungry in a world where food production is at all-time highs. In honor of the occasion, we have just published an update on progress in ending the rural component of global hunger. We wanted to see if there is evidence yet for a potential break from business-as-usual global trends. Unfortunately, we were not able to find it. If anything the pace of progress might be slowing rather than accelerating.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2016/10/17/are-we-closer-to-ending-rural-hunger/

Can globalization be rescued from itself? (Homi Kharas, John McArthur, Brookings)

Globalization—the integration among national economies of markets for goods, services, technology, capital flows, and, to some degree, labor—has played an enormous role in advancing global prosperity. Yet a backlash has emerged, manifested in the recent U.K. Brexit vote, strident “local first” demands, and calls to block trade agreements. The issues are not entirely new. In 1997 Dani Rodrik’s book famously asked Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Joseph Stiglitz published Globalization and Its Discontents in 2002. In between, the 1999 “Battle in Seattle” protests forced the World Trade Organization’s ministerial to shut down.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/can-globalization-be-rescued-from-itself/

Links in the chain of sustainable finance: Accelerating private investments for the SDGs, including climate action (Homi Kharas, John McArthur, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/links-in-the-chain-of-sustainable-finance-accelerating-private-investments-for-the-sdgs-including-climate-action/

The US-Africa Business Forum: Expanding credit for small-scale irrigation (John McArthur, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/09/15/the-us-africa-business-forum-expanding-credit-for-small-scale-irrigation/

Was 2015 a PR success for the new Global Goals? (John McArthur, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/06/10-global-goals-media-attention-mcarthur

Bringing Canada “back” for the long haul (Margaret Biggs, John McArthur, Brookings)

This week Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will lead a delegation to Washington with great fanfare. Like many of our fellow Canadians, we are excited to see the outcomes of the country’s first White House state dinner and accompanying high-level visit since 1997. The events mark a high-profile embodiment of the new government’s statement that “Canada is back” on the global stage.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/03/08-trudeau-visit-international-development-biggs-mcarthur

Welcoming a new era of global development (John McArthur, Margaret Biggs, Brookings)

https://www.opencanada.org/features/welcoming-new-era-development/

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) What happened at the Addis financing for development conference? (John McArthur, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2015/07/20-addis-financing-development-conference-mcarthur