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Power struggles take place in a black box. as the lines are often attributed to winston churchill go, political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight over the rig and an outsider only hear his the grumbling and when he sees the bones fly out it's obvious who won. it is prigozhin's bones figuratively and perhaps soon we will see it literally. what is not a matter of speculation is the russian society. i've been stunned since i read it. a 15-year-old male has the same life expectancy as a 15-year-old male in haiti. russia is one of the world's richest countries in terms of natural resource...

Amidst rapidly escalating climate crises, there is an urgent need to enable African countries to remodel existing financial infrastructure

It is difficult to identify another policy tool that has been either more celebrated or dismissed in recent decades as carbon pricing.  Long heralded by advocates as a silver bullet to confront climate change, it has increasingly been panned by critics as a political non-starter that distracts from serious climate mitigation.  This paper reviews the last half-decade of global climate policy and carbon pricing experience.  It examines significant political challenges to pricing adoption in nations including the United States.  However, it also demonstrates that carbon pricing can play an in...

This proposed Resource Allocation Framework may inform country-level allocation decisions by the Pandemic Fund for its first call for proposals supporting surveillance, laboratories, and human resources. This framework incorporates three measures of pandemic risk and one index of need for surveillance capacity for an overall allocation index.

New York-based economist Karan Bhasin says there is no evidence to argue that poverty did not decline since 2011