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The United Nation’s ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them.

Let’s get back to a U.S.-led growth agenda for the region. It has worked before.

A country’s postwar success would be a rebuke to the idea that the free world is in terminal decline.

Haiti is the 21st-century classic case study of the destructive effects of foreign aid. Following the 2010 earthquake that killed 230, 000...

Haiti is the 21st-century classic case study of the destructive effects of foreign aid. Following the 2010 earthquake that killed 230, 000...

China is actively present in almost all African countries, investing 35 Billion Dollars in 2015, and she dismissed the USA as the largest trading partner of African countries. The Chinese are in the process to drive the former colonial powers out of the market. Europe wants to save what is to be saved.

Since its founding in 1944, the World Bank has evolved from a lender focused on European reconstruction to the preeminent international institution for economic development and poverty reduction.

Currency values and foreign exchange rates change for many reasons, largely following market perceptions, regardless of fundamentals. Market speculation has worsened volatility, instability and fragil

Prime Minister Abiy is building a $15 Billion Palace, while negotiating a $67 Billion international aid package. This article is as much about Ethiopia ....

“Alice in wonderland” is an all time classic and one of my favourite books. It is about the story of a ...