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April 13, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
If Nigeria Is So Rich, Why Are Nigerians So Poor?

Femi Awoyemi, in a lucid and thoughtful article in the April 5 Leadership (Abuja) highlights that more than ninety percent of Nigeria’s population is poor "and exists largely at the mercy of fate." I…

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Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

August 13, 2014

International Law
Extracting Justice: Battling Corruption in Resource-Rich Africa

Coauthored with Isabella Bennett, assistant director of the International Institutions and Global Governance program. Last week, when more than forty heads of state met in Washington for the U.S.-Af…

Local residents' clothes dry over the gas pipelines running through the Eleme community near the city of Port Harcourt, a major Nigerian oil hub in the country's southeast.
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

September 14, 2006

Emerging Markets
Poor countries financing rich countries watch

Table 1.2 of Chapter 1 of the WEO makes one thing abundantly clear.  When the IMF talks about the need for investors to “increase the share of their portfolios in US assets for many years” (p.16) in …

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

April 16, 2024

Economics
Virtual Media Briefing: Previewing the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings

CFR experts preview the upcoming World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings taking place in Washington, DC, from April 17 through 19.   

Play President of the World Bank Group Ajay Banga and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at the World Economic Forum, January 17, 2024.
Virtual Event by Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Sebastian Mallaby, Brad W. Setser, and Michael Froman Media Briefings

May 3, 2023

United States
Is the U.S. Military Industrial Base Prepared?

Experts discuss the U.S. military's industrial capacity and readiness, if the stress test of the war in Ukraine has illuminated potential areas of weakness,  and whether or not the U.S. industrial ba…

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Virtual Event by William LaPlante, Jamie Morin, Jennifer M. Stewart, and Mary Beth Long Renewing America

May 22, 2024

Wars and Conflict
Climate Vulnerability and Conflict: A Conversation With John Podesta and David Miliband

In a conversation with David Miliband, Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy John Podesta discusses the relationship between climate vulnerability and conflict zones. In th…

Play Rohingya refugee girl walks along the water with umbrella across a flooded refugee camp during heavy rain
Event by John D. Podesta and David Miliband