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On Saturday, Eric and Wendy were spotted grinning from ear-to-ear while attending the Obamas White House interior designer Michael S. Smiths celebrity-studded 60th birthday.

Among economists and accountants, why an officially over- valued local currency has persisted in Zimbabwe over a long time is an open secret: it benefits an unscrupulous elite.

Read Fast Facts from CNN about Ashraf Ghani and learn about the former president of Afghanistan.

Access to large buyers is increasingly believed to facilitate firm growth and job creation. This column uses an experiment with small and medium-sized firms in Liberia to analyse whether purely informational barriers exclude firms from accessing growth-conducive value chains. Exposing firms to a week-long ‘sellership’ programme helped them win more and better contracts, and

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How We Can — and Should — Link Recovery Spending to Long-Term Transformation States and local governments should ensure that the new federal funds are invested in lasting economic development. There are lessons to draw upon from around the world. April 29, 2021 •  ShutterstockOver the next few months, states and local governments will begin to receive a once-in-a-generation windfall of federal funding from the American Recovery Plan and successive recovery programs. Much of this new mon...

The global economy is projected to rebound from the effects of COVID-19 in 2021, but the world’s most fragile states may not share in the upswing. Saddled with economic collapse and soaring debt, developing economies are likely to be left further behind after shrinking about 5 percent last year, according to World Bank estimates. As a result, over 55 million people could be plunged deeper into poverty, fueling social and political grievances and increasing the risks of instability. Pedestrian...

Ashraf Ghani Fast Facts Personal Birth name: Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai Father: Shah Pesand Religion: Muslim Other Facts Ghani is a former US citizen who gave up his passport to run for the Afghan presidency in 2009. He was working at the World Bank in Washington during the September 11 attacks, and used the tragedy as a springboard for his re-engagement in Afghan politics, returning to his home country just months after the event. Was diagnosed with cancer and had to have part of his stomach remove...