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The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
AnnaLee Saxenian, 2006
How skilled migrants who kept ties to their home regions became bridges for new firms, technology and trust.
Globalization, brain drain, and development
Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport, 2012
A review of how the emigration of skilled people can both cost and benefit the countries they leave.
Brain drain or brain bank? The impact of skilled emigration on poor-country innovation
Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur, John McHale and Alexander Oettl, 2011
Looks at whether emigrants stay connected to innovation at home, and what that means for the country they left.
Global talent flows
Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons, 2016
Maps where skilled people move, and what is known about the effects on origin and destination countries.
Global Skill Partnerships: a proposal for technical training in a mobile world
Michael A. Clemens, 2015
A design in which training for skilled workers is shared between origin and destination, with the road home kept open.
Diaspora for Development in Africa
Sonia Plaza and Dilip Ratha (eds.), 2011
A World Bank volume on how African diasporas contribute money, skills and networks to their home countries.
Industrial foundations as long-term owners
Steen Thomsen, Thomas Poulsen, Christa Børsting and Johannes Kuhn, 2018
Studies firms owned by foundations and how they behave as long-term owners.
Steward-ownership: a guidebook for lawyers
Purpose Foundation, 2021
A practical legal guide to the two principles of steward-ownership and how companies put them into their statutes.
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Elinor Ostrom, 1990
Evidence that communities can govern shared resources well, and the design principles that tend to go with it.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, 2012
Argues that inclusive institutions, not geography or culture, explain much of the difference in national prosperity.
Participatory research for low-resourced machine translation: a case study in African languages
Wilhelmina Nekoto and the Masakhane community, 2020
A community-led way of building language data and models for languages that big technology firms neglect.
MasakhaNER: named entity recognition for African languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani and the Masakhane community, 2021
Open datasets and baselines for finding names, places and organisations in ten African languages.
Algorithmic colonization of Africa
Abeba Birhane, 2020
A critical essay on how data and AI products built elsewhere can reproduce extractive patterns when they arrive in Africa.
Open Labware: 3-D printing your own lab equipment
Tom Baden, Andre Chagas, Greg Gage, Timothy Marzullo, Lucia Prieto-Godino and Thomas Euler, 2015
How low-cost, printable lab equipment can open up research where imported instruments are too expensive to buy or repair.
Building research equipment with free, open-source hardware
Joshua M. Pearce, 2012
An early, widely cited case for open-source hardware as a way to cut the cost of scientific tools.
The danger of a single story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2009
A short talk on how one repeated story about a place or people becomes the only story that outsiders believe.
Exclusive: OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic
Billy Perrigo, TIME, 2023
Investigative reporting on data-labelling work that powered a major AI product, and on the pay and conditions of the workers.
World Development Indicators
World Bank
The source of the figures in this site's data explorer: thousands of indicators for every country, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.
Remittance Prices Worldwide
World Bank
Tracks what it costs to send money between countries, by provider and corridor. Behind the cost figures on our corridors page.
SDG indicator 10.c.1: remittance costs as a proportion of the amount remitted
World Bank, SDG metadata
Defines the indicator and the United Nations target of bringing remittance costs below 3 per cent by 2030.
KNOMAD migration and remittances data
KNOMAD, World Bank
Bilateral migration and remittance estimates, with regular briefs on trends.
Migration Data Portal
IOM Global Migration Data Analysis Centre
One place to find migration statistics and what they do and do not measure, organised by theme and region.
International Migrant Stock
United Nations DESA, Population Division
Estimates of how many international migrants live in each country, by origin, age and sex.
World Investment Report 2025: Africa fact sheet
UNCTAD, 2025
A short, sourced overview of foreign direct investment flows into Africa and its sub-regions.
Global Findex Database
World Bank
Survey data on how adults save, borrow, pay and send money, including mobile money.
The Mobile Economy Africa 2025
GSMA, 2025
An industry view of mobile connectivity, mobile money and digital services across the continent.
Ibrahim Index of African Governance
Mo Ibrahim Foundation
A country-by-country assessment of governance in Africa, with downloadable data.
Africa Information Highway
African Development Bank
The African Development Bank's open data platform, with national statistics for African countries.
African Economic Outlook
African Development Bank
The bank's regular analysis of growth, finance and policy across African economies.
Africa: The Big Deal
Independent database and newsletter
An independent, public database of funding announced by African start-ups, with commentary.
Government AI Readiness Index
Oxford Insights
Compares how prepared governments are to use AI, country by country.
Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy
African Union, 2024
The African Union's framework for AI development and governance across member states.
The Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa (2020–2030)
African Union, 2020
The continental plan for digital markets, infrastructure, skills and governance.
EU Talent Partnerships
European Commission
The EU's framework for partnerships with non-EU countries on skills, mobility and legal migration.
EU Immigration Portal
European Commission
Official, country-by-country information on routes to live and work in EU member states.
Orientation year for highly educated persons
Government of the Netherlands
The official description of the Dutch residence permit that lets recent graduates look for work or start a business.
Masakhane
Grassroots research community
A grassroots community of African researchers and engineers building natural language processing for African languages.
Deep Learning Indaba
Deep Learning Indaba
A yearly gathering and network that aims to strengthen machine learning across Africa.
Zindi
Zindi Africa
A platform where African data scientists take part in competitions on real problems.
Lacuna Fund
Lacuna Fund
Funds the creation of labelled datasets for machine learning in low- and middle-income contexts, led by local teams.
Lelapa AI
Lelapa AI, Johannesburg
A company building language technology for African languages, including the small language model InkubaLM.
Common Voice
Mozilla
An open, crowd-sourced speech dataset that includes several African languages, free to use.
TReND in Africa
Teaching and Research in Natural Sciences for Development in Africa
A non-profit that supports natural-science teaching and research in Africa and promotes open labware.
Gathering for Open Science Hardware
GOSH community
A global community around open hardware for science, with working groups and a public roadmap.
African Robotics Network (AFRON)
AFRON
A network that connects people working on robotics in and for Africa.
Africa No Filter
Africa No Filter
A donor collaborative working to change the stereotypical stories told about Africa.
Purpose Foundation
Purpose
A foundation that develops and promotes steward-ownership, with guides and case stories.
Employee Ownership Association
Employee Ownership Association, UK
The UK body for employee-owned businesses, with plain guides to how employee ownership works.
Cooperative identity, values and principles
International Cooperative Alliance
The shared statement of what makes a business a co-operative: member ownership and democratic control.
RespectfulMigration.org
Related project
Our sister site on the idea of a Relational Visa and respectful migration.
Summanitism.org
Related project
The philosophical framework behind our view of reciprocity, roots, reach and coherence.
About this list. A source is a pointer to something published, not an endorsement of every claim in it, and not evidence of outcomes for anyone we introduce. Titles, authors and years were checked in October 2026. Links can change, so if one fails, search the title.