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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

April 1, 2024

Brazil
Brazil Should Use G20 Momentum to Join the OECD

Brazil has an opportunity to become a powerful bridge between developed economies and the Global South—the United States should support that ambition. 

U.S. President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hold hands as they attend the launch of the Global Biofuels Alliance at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, September 9, 2023.
Article by Heidi Crebo-Rediker RealEcon

April 18, 2024

European Union
Trends in International Trade: A Conversation With Valdis Dombrovskis

The European Commission’s Executive Vice President and Commissioner for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, discusses the trends and shocks affecting international trade, the value-added of multilateralism, a…

Play Portrait of Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis with American and European Union's flags in the background.
Virtual Event by Valdis Dombrovskis and Miriam Sapiro C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

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

March 20, 2024

Human Rights
The Human Rights Industry

The two largest human rights NGOs, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, dominate the field despite deep problems of bias and inadequate oversight.

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points