The United States seeks to rekindle its economic engagement with Africa through the Prosper Africa initiative. The CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development offers a set of recommendations to maximize the impact and resiliency of the Prosper Africa initiative.

This report describes how the development landscape has changed in recent decades and how the United States has responded to this new environment and presents some initial recommendations.

The future of work has recently attracted much attention from a variety of institutions, from governments to universities to private companies and news outlets: a simple Google search of the term future of work produces more than two billion results. 

This report focuses on the changes taking place in the world of work in developing countries and explores their implications for the national security of the United States and future global stability. 

In less than five years, India will be the most populous nation in the world; in addition, while many Asian countries are aging, India is projected to be the youngest country in the world by 2020.

While Nigeria remains the largest economy in Africa, its reliance on the oil extractives sector has put the country in a precarious position.

Home to the fifth largest workforce in the world, Brazil faces several workforce challenges: high informality and low productivity jobs, social inequalities, and youth unemployment. 

Now that the BUILD Act is law, it is time to revisit why the legislation matters and what it implies for agencies such as OPIC and USAID as Daniel Runde and Romina Bandura from CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development writes in a new commentary.

Enterprise funds are an innovative U.S. foreign policy tool created in the early 1990s that use U.S. government funding to stimulate economic development by investing in the private sectors of developing countries.

As of late February 2018, the World Bank Group is seeking a capital increase from its shareholders for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The U.S. role must remain undiminished as it is key to keeping the institution accountable and effective.

In connecting American business to such opportunities, USTDA also links American technology’s best practices and ingenuity with U.S. trade and development policy priorities.