Emerging Voices features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Wolfgang Fengler, the lead e…

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

When it comes to civil liberties in Africa, Western governments and institutions must put their monies where their mouths are.

The IMF has turned up the heat on Greece’s Eurozone neighbors, calling on them to write off “significant amounts” of Greek sovereign debt.  Writing off debt, however, doesn’t make the pain disappe…

Often one of the best ways to get noticed is to highlight something a bit surprising. A data point that doesn’t match expectations for example. Puerto Rico’s large trade surplus for example, which…