January 2, 2013
Financial MarketsA remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn.
November 5, 2013
Sub-Saharan AfricaSimon Kuper has published a thoughtful piece in the Financial Times that argues the word "Africa” has “lost what meaning it ever had and should be binned.” He argues that in 1969 (the year he was bor…
February 19, 2014
Sub-Saharan AfricaStuart 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 …
November 21, 2013
DevelopmentJoshua Keating has written a brief, thought-provoking article in Slate titled “The Optimistic Continent.” He notes that the World Economic Forum’s Survey on the Global Agenda identifies Africa as the…
December 11, 2013
ChinaStephen Hayes, president of the Washington-based Corporate Council on Africa, has written a thoughtful column on Nigeria’s widely anticipated announcement that it has overtaken South Africa as Africa…
April 7, 2014
ChinaOn 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…
October 31, 2013
Sub-Saharan AfricaAfrobarometer is a research project coordinated by institutions in African countries and with partners in thirty-one countries. It recently conducted a survey of public opinion across thirty-four Afr…
October 25, 2013
Morten Jerven, an academic at Canada’s Simon Fraser University, published an important book for those who believe that decision-making should be informed by facts. His book, Poor Numbers: How We are …
May 17, 2013
South AfricaSouth Africa in the post-apartheid period has registered steady growth, but mounting problems over inequality threaten the continent’s economic engine.
January 25, 2018
NigeriaHostages 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.
