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Anti-poverty measures, way forward, case studies, and more — Pranay Aggarwal concludes the topic of Poverty with some valuable insights for your exams. Suggest and stay tuned for a new topic on social issues.

The BRICS economic alliance, comprising the likes of China and Russia, share a dislike of American dominance

Decentralizing power would have been the best way of avoiding a return to Saddam-era authoritarianism and corruption, but Baghdad has favored centralization instead—while simultaneously fissuring the state through sectarian patronage and competition.

On Morten Jerven’s The Wealth and Poverty of African States.

Bank of Uganda governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, who passed away at the age of 72 in January, was respected at home and abroad for his stewardship of the economy.

A “resource cursed” country is one in which an abundance of natural resources fosters worse development outcomes than those without.  Often termed “the paradox of plenty”, many economies which rely on the rents supplied by valuable commodities such as oil and minerals, have been known to achieve low

THE PUBLIC SPHERE with Chido Nwakanma SOS to Prof Paul Collier. What you predicted in The Bottom Billion is unfolding and coming real concerning Nigeria. It is frightening for its socio-economic and geopolitical implications for Africa and the world. In 2007, Oxford economics Professor Collier submitted that if the world does nothing to arrest the development stasis of countries housing a billion of the world’s population, they will form “a ghetto of misery and discontent”. He listed Nige...

Zambia is a landlocked mineral dependent country in Southern Africa whose history is intimately entwined with the copper mining industry. Having gained Independence from Britain in 1964 at the height of a copper boom, the country experienced a slow and painful economic decline over the next quarter century. However, following a traumatic and protracted process of economic adjustment through the 1990s and early 2000s, Zambias economic potential is now better than it has been at any time since In...