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July 24, 2012

Corporate Governance
The Dodd-Frank Act

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act was one of the most significant financial regulatory reform measures since the Great Depression.  In the wake of the financial crisis, it sought to give regulators new tools t…

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and Chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board Paul Volcker (R) testify before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 17, 2010 (Larry Downing/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Edward Alden Renewing America

May 23, 2018

Nigeria
Nigeria's Dangote, Africa's Richest Person, Became Rich at Home

Outside of business and financial circles, Dangote is not well known in the United States. Perhaps that is largely because his business interests—banking, cement, sugar, salt, agriculture, and manufacturing—are centered in Nigeria and Africa rather than overseas.

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Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

March 19, 2024

Nigeria
The Ride of Their Lives

More than a mere automobile, the sport utility vehicle (SUV) in Nigeria is rich in social meaning.

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu waves to the crowd as he takes a drive on a top of a sports utility vehicle.
Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition

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

January 20, 2015

Human Rights
The U.S.-Burma Human Rights Dialogue: Frank Criticism but No Action

Last week, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski, U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Derek Mitchell, and a group of other U.S. officials from State, Defense,…

Sinnuyar Baekon, 25, sits in front of her hut at a refugee camp outside Sittwe, the capital city of the Rakhine state June 9, 2014. Baekon is among many Rohingya Muslims living in squalid camps in Myanmar after being displaced by religious unrest. Baekon is from Rakhine state, where her family home was burned down in religious riots that broke out in June 2012. Baekon ended up in a refugee camp, where she is still living now. Her husband left her before she gave birth to twins, and she is struggling to fee
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

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