The latest Africa’s Pulse shows economic slowdown in Sub Saharan Africa, with growth dipping in 2015 to 3.7% from 4.6%…
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By Peter Maass. Reviewd by Steven Mufson. We tend to take for granted the comforts of modern life. Few…
Kate Bayliss. South Africa is suffering an electricity crisis. Blackouts have been widespread and the impact disastrous. Electricity supply is…
Illicit financial flows (IFFs), defined as “money illegally earned, transferred or used”, are increasingly understood as a threat to sustainable…
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentleman. As is always the case, I am in my elements when discussing the means and…
Professor William Easterly, in his new book “The Tyranny of Experts,” makes compelling arguments on why economic development in…
The problems in Nigeria’s electricity industry stem from a variety of sources, not least is the absence of a national…
Anup Shah. Corruption is both a major cause and a result of poverty around the world. It occurs at all…
By Peter S. Wenz. The solution to reducing unemployment? Inefficiency; according to philosophy professor Wenz’s (Take Back the Center) bold…
Joseph E. Stiglitz. Reviewed by Professor Thomas B. Edsall. Joseph E. Stiglitz’s new book, “The Price of Inequality,” is the…