September 13, 2018
Sub-Saharan AfricaThe Pentagon plans to withdraw its special operations forces in Africa, but major cutbacks could threaten recent efforts to counter terrorism threats across the region.
April 20, 2012
TradeThe Brookings Institution released a report on the correlation between income inequality and school quality. Schools in more affluent areas are likely to have higher average test scores, and housing …
December 18, 2018
U.S. Foreign PolicyOn December 13, Ambassador John Bolton, President Donald J. Trump’s national security advisor, delivered the administration’s long-awaited encyclical on Africa before an overflow audience at the Heritage Foundation. In a typically blunt manner, Ambassador Bolton characterized China’s policies toward Africa as rapacious and neo-colonial, expressing concern that China would use its leverage over states heavily indebted to it in return for a monopolistic hold on the continent’s natural resource bounty.
October 25, 2018
EthiopiaIn a cabinet reshuffle last week, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed ten female ministers, comprising half of the all cabinet posts. Days later, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame announced that Rwanda’s new cabinet would also be gender-balanced. The Ethiopian parliament elected its first female president, Sahle-Work Zewde.
October 18, 2018
CybersecurityWhat explains the proliferation of cyber capabilities?
October 9, 2018
International FinanceA technical post on the q2 global reserves and balance of payments data … wonky.
October 2, 2018
Technology and InnovationWith the perils of heedless innovation all too apparent, and with a new and potentially more transformative wave of technical advances in the pipeline, global movements to govern the next technologic…
September 20, 2018
International FinanceReflections on the Global Financial Crisis, through the lens of the U.S. balance of payments.
September 12, 2018
MaliSub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing at the fastest rate in the world.
March 17, 2009
Financial MarketsThe FT’s Gillian Tett makes a simple but important point: AIG’s role in the credit default swap market meant that a lot of risk that the bank regulators thought had been dispersed into many strong ha…