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He faces strong headwinds at home and abroad as his third term as president gets underway.
Why the UK’s reliance on natural gas means the energy crisis is unlikely to end this winter.
Subsidies to shield the general population from oil price increases do not automatically reduce poverty and inequality.
Inflation is perhaps the biggest poverty accelerator in the economy due to its weakening effect on people’s purchasing power.
Producers in Zambia should be getting more for their crops, and buyers in East Africa should be paying less, alleviating food price spikes.
Negotiations between Russia and Turkey to ensure safe passage of Ukrainian grain hint at a new era of global food diplomacy.
Russia’s war has had an unexpected impact on global trade patterns, raising the price on goods but weakening currencies. What’s behind this unexpected blip?
One of the oldest industries, fishing, is entering the world of advanced analytics and data-driven planning. With oceans under stress and key fish stocks dwindling, can precision fishing help?
Two weeks into the invasion, here’s what’s been happening so far.
The Ghanaian currency is facing structural hurdles.
Ghana’s economy is in its most precarious state in decades.
Natural resource abundance in a country should not translate into a curse.
The black stuff is suddenly much more expensive – the question is whether smallhold farmers will see any of the proceeds.
Because Brazil’s economic prosperity in the last two decades is increasingly linked to the Amazon’s good health, restoring the country’s economy is a critical first step toward ending deforestation.
Ghana remains heavily dependent on primary commodity exports for foreign exchange earnings.
Deforestation in Brazil recently reached a 12-year high, prompting France to cut soybean imports from the country.
Global economic policy excludes low-income countries from the spending options that developed nations use to buffer their economies in times of crisis, and the pandemic has inflamed that inequality.
In times of trouble people still turn to gold. What makes it a safe haven? Largely perceptions, based on its historical mystique.
The Nigerian ministry of agriculture and rural development needs to focus on the adoption of modern rice processing techniques.
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