Astrid Haas joins Ideas in Development to discuss why African cities are so fiscally constrained, and what reforms in Mexico, the Philippines, and Sierra Leone can teach us.

This week we featured research on building roads, managing hospitals, forecasting weather and more!

900 million people will be added to African cities by 2050. Getting this unprecedented urban transition right is one of the defining development challenges of our time.

This week we featured research on fertiliser, inequality, AI and more!

What we learned from our series on AI.

This week we featured research on industrial policy, AI, migration and more!

Umar Saif on why data and politics, not technology, are the real bottlenecks to AI in developing countries, and why the rush towards sovereign AI capacity may be a costly distraction.

This week we featured research on malaria, economic growth, electricity theft and more!

Raghuram Rajan discusses how India's economy grew through services exports, why that model may be more resilient to AI than critics assume, and what policymakers need to get right on human capital, universities, and digital access to stay ahead.