Commentary
In the year since the ouster of the Assad regime, Syrians remain mostly hopeful having thrown out a brutal dictatorship, secured US, European, Regional and Russian recognition...
Many developing countries have invested heavily in expanding access to technology in hopes of boosting children’s educational outcomes. Despite these significant public and private commitments,...
Remember John Lennon singing “Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do, nothing to kill of die for”. He did have a point: Aggressive...
Under Assad family rule, Syria was possibly the most centralized state in the Middle East. For decades, in a war-pressed environment, a dense web of...
Over the past decade, developing countries have, once again, turned out in debt distress. Debt service levels now approach those recorded in the late 1990s...
“Why a country once on the brink of democratic renewal now faces state collapse — and what it will take to reverse course” Sudan did...
More than half the world’s population already lives in cities – about 58 percent today, and by 2050 nearly seven in ten people will call...
For scholars and practitioners of the international economy, conflict and underdevelopment are two increasingly intertwined phenomena. Concerned about low-income countries? Two-thirds of them now fall...
Finance ministers attending the recent Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank clearly heard the alarm that Indermit Gill and Kenan Karakülah sounded on...
