The conditions placed on countries borrowing money from the International Monetary Fund have further disadvantaged these countries economically.
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Alongside the global economic outlook, Russian supply and Chinese demand are contributing to ‘a cocktail of uncertainty’ for oil prices.
Ethiopia’s unmet refugee education reforms highlight the ways in which bureaucratic structures and interests can shape policy.
It’s a crucial time for the World Bank, with growing calls for reform and sky-high expectations of what one leader needs to do. A former World Bank official explains the challenges ahead.
Thirty years ago the World Bank recognised that its position was untenable. It put in place mechanisms to make the bank more accountable to ordinary people.
Average farm machinery use in Africa is among the lowest in the world.
The negative effects of conflict on human capital – particularly nutrition, health and education – are larger than commonly thought.
William Ruto is determined to reduce public debt by collecting more taxes to pay for what the country needs.
East Africa is one of the fastest urbanising regions in the world, but it’s still in the early phases. There’s a big opportunity to get the region’s cities right.
Ghana’s finance ministry is struggling to build consensus on the country’s debt burden.
Look for significant progress in 2023 in two key areas, writes a veteran of international climate policy.
Two of the largest financial institutions are not doing enough to scale up funding for climate action.
The biggest issues at COP27 involve financing for low-income countries hit hard by climate change. A former World Bank official describes some promising signs she’s starting to see.
With a square and a circle, the father of ecological economics and a founding architect of sustainable development redrew our understanding of the economy. It was revolutionary.
Many small island nations are struggling to protect their land from rising seas while also facing paralyzing debt.
Better financial support is vital for growing populations.
Njuguna Ndung'u has the experience that suits Ruto’s bottom-up economics but lacks the political gravitas to appease voters.
Questionable academic research has been used by Uber to argue against regulation.
Harnessing the combined effect of trade and urbanisation could significantly boost the economies of African countries.
An expert on Sri Lanka’s economy identifies and explains three key challenges that Ranil Wickremesinghe will have to overcome if he hopes to steer the country out of its crisis.
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Visiting Professor of Practice, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Indiana University
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor, Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Professor of International Business Strategy & Emerging Markets at the University of Sussex Business School, and the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
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Research Fellow, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University
