Does Development Assistance Affect Economic Freedom In The Recipient County?

  Benjamin Powell and Matt Ryan. For more than 50 years individual countries and international…


How Useful Are Millennium Development Goals And Sustainable Development Goals To The Developing World?

  A fundamental principle that guides productive exchanges and relations amongst nations is a…


Rule Of Law, Credibility, And Control of Corruption As Means To Growth And Sustainable Development

  Paul Sumner, Glenna Huo. Although the institution of Rule of Law (ROL) and its counterpart,…


Counterterrorism Efforts and Push-Backs: What Next?

The need to counter terroristic insurgency is urgent and clear, but the means employed to achieve…


Youth Employment In Africa: What To Do When Informal Is Normal

Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist World Bank’s Africa Region.   In low-income African…


As Nigerians Decide In 2015

Abraham Adonduwa. They have told us a littany of lies. First they would not run then they would and…


How Many Nigerians are Choosing Neutrality?

  Bukola Bolarinwa. On a recent taxi ride in Abuja, I asked the driver whom he would be voting…


Nigeria’s New Health Law, and the Right to a Responsive Healthcare System Amidst a Dysfunctional One

  Uchechukwu Ngwaba. On 9 December 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law Nigeria’s…


Economic And Other Human Rights Remain Hostages Of Oil Companies

Jake Effoduh. The Niger Delta is one of the ten most important wetland and coastal marine…


Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Election Would Not Be Ordinary; Not Least is the Security Concern

  Paul Oluikpe. With the February, 2015 presidential elections looming, a lot of security…