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The African Union Can Do More to Support Regional Integration

May 17, 2013, Michael Rettig, Anne W. Kamau and Augustus Sammy Muluvi

A Theoretical Framework for Kenya's Central Bank Macroeconometric Model

May 2013, Maureen Were, Anne W. Kamau, Moses M. Sichei and Moses Kiptui

Iran’s Presidential Election Puts Populism to the Test

May 15, 2013, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Mapping the African Growth Landscape

May 15, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries

2013, Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn and Deborah L. Wetzel

Six Major Decision Points for Uhuru Administration

May 12, 2013, Eric Aligula and Anne W. Kamau

World Economic Forum on Africa: Delivering Africa’s Promise

May 6, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Part of the emphasis on the economic relationship is also an attempt to change the perception in America about Mexico and Mexican immigrants.

May 2, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, National Journal

A Conversation on President Obama’s Trip to Mexico and Costa Rica

May 1, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, Diana Villiers Negroponte, Ted Piccone and Neil Ruiz

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This is a new world, this is a much more integrated American market than we’ve seen in the past. I think updating the American people on this reality is the main objective for the White House.

May 1, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, Washington Times

The bilateral relationship at least with Mexico has been dominated by drugs and violence. I think there is going to be a concerted effort here to refocus attention on the depth and size of the economic relationship.

May 1, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, New York Times

Africa Answers: Five Questions for Lawrence Bategeka about Uganda’s New Oil Law

May 1, 2013, Anne W. Kamau and Andrew Westbury

Can Egypt’s Transition and Economy Be Saved?

May 1, 2013, Hafez Ghanem

Is Africa Rising or Not? A Discussion of Economic Opportunities and Development Challenges in Africa

April 25, 2013

From Bottom Billion to Top Trillion: Using Commodity-Backed Securities to Support the Future of Africa’s Resource Economies

April 17, 2013, Vera Songwe

April 2013 Update to TIGER: Tracking Indices for the Global Economic Recovery

April 2013, Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda

[Kenya's] economy has changed a lot, but we still have a traditional sector that has not changed a lot and that traditional sector is where, I think, [President Uhuru Kenyatta] and his deputy are going to concentrate.

April 10, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Al Jazeera English

Top Five Reasons Why Africa Should Be a Priority for the United States

April 2013

China in Africa: Implications for U.S. Competition and Diplomacy

April 2013, Yun Sun

Value-Added Trade and Its Implications for International Trade Policy

April 2, 2013, Kemal Derviş, Joshua Meltzer and Karim Foda

China and the Changing Myanmar

March 29, 2013, Yun Sun

Myanmar on the Move: An Overview of Recent Developments

March 2013, Lex Rieffel

Such [White House] meetings [with President Obama] have served to reward those countries that have made advances in the cause of democracy and human rights.

March 28, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Bloomberg Businessweek

BRICS Investing in Africa: Geopolitical and Economic Ramifications

March 28, 2013

Can the Poor Be Organized? Evidence from Rural India

March 2013, Raj M. Desai and Shareen Joshi