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March 12, 2024

Development
The President’s Inbox Recap: Combating Global Poverty

Economic development work is aimed at long-term change in the world’s poorest countries.

A man as viewed carrying his son through a community greenhouse.

July 14, 2022

United States
Webb Is a Reminder of America’s Technical Prowess in Future Global Competition and Cooperation

This major space success will attract the talent the U.S. needs to maintain technical preeminence, shows the difficulty others may have in kicking America out of first place, and demonstrates the ben…

The first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

March 10, 2024

China
China’s Record Manufacturing Surplus

The U.S. likes talking about the dominance of the dollar. But don’t short-change China’s current dominance of manufacturing trade. Trade imbalances need to be taken seriously again.

Manufactured Goods Surpluses

September 20, 2007

Economics
Trading up - Peking University’s Michael Pettis will be guest blogging here for a few days

There is an awful lot of interest going on in the world -- whether today's rise in long-term treasury yields, the dollar's new lows v the euro and Canadian dollar, the rise in Chinese money market ra…

November 13, 2023

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s Electoral Aftermath

While Zimbabwe’s ruling party continues its campaign to quash opposition forces post-election, the Southern African Development Community takes a “business as usual” approach.

Holding a piece of paper, Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa takes an oath of office during his inauguration at the National Sports Stadium in Harare, Zimbabwe September 4, 2023.

October 8, 2023

China
Can China Reduce Its Internal Balances Without Renewed External Imbalances?

The rest of the world has a big stake in whether China responds to the demand drag from its construction and real estate slump with looser monetary policy or with direct stimulus to households.

Can China Reduce Its Internal Balances Without Renewed External Imbalances?

June 20, 2019

Botswana
Personal Rivalries Overshadow Botswana's Democracy

The feud between current President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor and former boss, Ian Khama, sometimes reads like highlights of an overwrought soap opera. The latest dramatic turn saw Khama renouncing his membership in the party his revered father helped found, complaining that his legacy was being dismantled, and encouraging others to throw away their BDP membership cards.

Former Botswana President Ian Khama at the Botswana-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) in Pretoria, South Africa, November 11, 2016.