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Despite Its Siren Song, High-Value Targeting Doesn’t Fit All: Matching Interdiction Patterns to Specific Narcoterrorism and Organized-Crime Contexts

October 1, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Enterprising Solutions: The Role of the Private Sector in Eradicating Global Poverty

September 2013

Kenya Terror Strike Al-Qaeda's Latest in Global Jihad

September 27, 2013, Bruce Riedel

Kenyans do feel demoralized. They are paying a very high price for being good hosts. But, they have also recovered; they have dealt with a lot of these types of incidents, but this also brings them together.

September 24, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, The Takeaway

Al Shabaab: Background on the Somalia-based Terrorist Group that Attacked a Nairobi Mall

September 23, 2013, Fred Dews

Massacre in Nairobi: Kenya Under Siege as al-Shabab Consolidates

September 23, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Financing Africa: Moving Beyond Foreign Aid to Issuing Eurobonds

September 13, 2013, Amadou Sy

Bringing Peace to the Congo: A Blueprint for Special Envoy Feingold

September 11, 2013, Witney Schneidman and Sasha Lezhnev

Democracy at Bay: The Arab Spring and Sub-Saharan Africa

September 10, 2013, Richard Joseph

The Bad Economics of Free Primary Education

September 7, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Using Financial Incentives and Mobile Monitoring to Address Teacher Absenteeism in Uganda’s Primary Schools

September 5, 2013, Ibrahim Kasirye

A Trilateral Dialogue on the United States, Africa and China

August 28, 2013

Is South Sudan on the Verge of Collapse?

August 20, 2013, Josephine Kibe and Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Creating Global Reach: Brookings’s Partnerships with Think Tanks in Africa

August 14, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

AGOA: Building on Today and Looking Forward Beyond 2015 – A Conversation with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman

August 5, 2013

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Is Good Governance Necessary For Economic Progress in Africa?

August 4, 2013, Richard Joseph

Previewing the 2013 Brookings Blum Roundtable: Private Equity in Frontier Markets

August 2, 2013, Laurence Chandy and George Ingram

South Africa has been good to [Zimbabwean President Robert] Mugabe because he was good to them in the darkest years of that country’s long freedom movement. I don’t think they would ever call for diaspora voting rights because they know it would work against Mugabe and he would see it as direct opposition.

July 31, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Christian Science Monitor

The Next 50 Years of the African Union

July 30, 2013

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The African Growth and Opportunity Act: An Empirical Analysis of the Possibilities Post-2015

July 2013, Simon Mevel, Zenia Lewis, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Stephen Karingi and Anne W. Kamau

Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria One State at a Time: A Public-Private Partnership Community-Based Health Insurance Model

June 2013, Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Onno Schellekens

Prebendalism and Dysfunctionality in Nigeria

July 26, 2013, Richard Joseph

Mali after the Election: Priorities of China and the U.S.

July 26, 2013, Yun Sun and Michael Rettig

Corporate Social Responsibility and Latecomer Industrialization: Can Nigeria Do It?

July 21, 2013, Richard Joseph, Kelly Spence and Abimbola Agboluaje

A State-building Approach to the Drug Trade Problem

July 18, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown