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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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September 4, 2020
Wars and Conflict
Ten More Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching
Each Friday this summer, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. For our final week: films that we haven’t yet recommended and think we should.
April 19, 2018
Nigeria
Unemployment and Begging Across Nigeria
The World Bank, using International Labour Organization (ILO) data, estimated that the unemployment rate is 5.5 percent, but this likely varies dramatically within the country.
January 25, 2018
Nigeria
Nigeria’s Formal Economy Looking Up
Hostages to fortune are international oil prices, which are largely determined by forces over which Nigeria has little control. While Nigeria ostensibly has more control over security in the oil patch, there is an ongoing, low-level insurgency that has been in effect for years.
April 7, 2014
China
Nigeria is Officially “Africa’s Largest Economy”
On April 6, Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that after “rebasing,” Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) almost doubled to U.S. $509.9 billion. That figure is dramatically larger t…
February 19, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on “Reforming Nigeria”
Stuart Reid published in the current issue of Foreign Affairs a fascinating interview with Nigeria Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The finance minister was educated at Harvard and MIT and is a …
