Commentary
Tropical cyclones are among the most destructive natural disasters for farmers in developing countries. Yet farmers are not passive actors when disaster strikes. They can...
Yemen’s Muhamasheen—estimated by the UN to number up to 3.5 million and of Sub-Saharan ancestry—have long been marginalized, facing nearly a millennium of caste-like ostracization,...
Africa’s structural transformation debate is often framed around a familiar question: should African countries deepen their economic ties with the Global North or strengthen their...
On August 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, committing themselves to regard an attack on one as an attack...
Sir,Mr. Studwell’s response to my book review exaggerates our disagreements. Nobody ever said that Africa should not industrialize. Point 5 in the penultimate paragraph in...
Sir,I reply to Hafez Ghanem’s review of my book How Africa Works. Part of the problem with economic development as a subject is that it...
Jordan has a labor market problem. It is not that people work too little. It is that too much labor remains concentrated in activities that...
For more than twenty-one years, I worked across Pakistan, Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan as a staff member of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)....
The capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) are a matter of heated debate. Can it generate new things? Can it produce scientific discoveries, novel hypotheses, or...
