Global Economy and Development

A woman sits near food items displayed for sale at a market in Abuja, Nigeria October 10, 2019. Picture taken October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC116DF3C490

Nigeria’s Benin border closure and what it means for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

Landry Signé and Colette van der Ven

Monday, November 4, 2019

A Canada flag patch and U.N. patch are seen on a member of Canadian Forces before departing for a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in Trenton, Ontario, Canada, July 5, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Wattie - RC1B5D228C00

The case for international civil servants

Friday, November 1, 2019

People hold "tax Amazon" signs during a protest in front of the Amazon Spheres to demand that the city of Seattle tax the largest corporations to help fund affordable housing, according to organizers, in Seattle, Washington, U.S., April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson - RC1D126DE1E0

How to tame big tech

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Posters of Russian President Vladimir Putin hang on the streets of Egypt's capital ahead of his meeting with his Egyptian counterpart President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo, Egypt December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RC119911E330

Vladimir Putin is resetting Russia’s Africa agenda to counter the US and China

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Supporters of Argentina's President Mauricio Macri attend a campaign rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 28, 2019. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian - RC145B02DD50

Argentina must not waste its crisis

Kemal Derviş and Sebastian Strauss

Thursday, October 3, 2019

A Palestinian walks past a ceramic sign of a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2019. Picture taken January 31, 2019. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma - RC1DBE2B9C60

What every American should know about US foreign aid

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Displaced protestants, who fled Dablo and its surroundings, attend a church service in the city of Kaya, Burkina Faso May 16, 2019. Picture taken May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Anne Mimault - RC19C92E33E0

Closing the opportunity gap in the Sahel

Annette Dixon and Hafez Ghanem

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

A man looks at a poster placed on an advertising board that reads "Yesterday, Braden or Peron - Today: Griesa or Cristina", in Buenos Aires July 29, 2014. Argentine debt negotiators held talks in New York on Tuesday with the U.S. mediator in the South American country's battle with holdout investors, in a last-ditch attempt to avert a default. After a series of setbacks in U.S. courts, Argentina has until the end of Wednesday to either pay the New York hedge funds in full their defaulted bonds resulting from the country's 2001/02 financial crisis or cut a deal to stave off a fresh default. The poster refers to 1945 U.S. Ambassador in Argentina Braden Spruille, former Argentina's President Juan Peron, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Thomas Griesa and President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci (ARGENTINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS SOCIETY) - GM1EA7U09E501

America’s Argentina risk

Monday, September 30, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands

Preventing Cold War II

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

People hold an inflatable doll of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of the demonstration to demand more protection for the Amazon rainforest, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil August 25, 2019. The sash reads "Lula free". REUTERS/Sergio Moraes - RC129F36ED80

Corrupt anti-corruption campaigns

Thursday, August 29, 2019