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Next Steps for a People’s Vaccine
The Biden administration’s decision to stop opposing a proposed COVID-19 waiver of certain intellectual-property…
Africa’s Trade Revolution Needs Peace
Rebalancing Africa’s security and development objectives is a daunting task. But it is one…
The Absent Voices of Development Economics
Development economics focuses on improving the well-being of billions of people in low-income countries,…
Investing in Kenya’s Young Micro-Entrepreneurs
A growing number of young Kenyans have established informal micro-businesses, or “hustles,” since the…
Magulified Magulifications of Magufuli
I vividly recollect the hash tag #WhatWouldMagufuliDo? that raised dust across social media platforms…
Why Did Rwanda Abruptly Change the Language in Schools—Again?
Children in Rwanda finally started heading back to school last fall, after months of…
Saving Journalism from Big Tech
By mandating that digital platforms pay news publishers for the content that appears on…
A Test for Ivory Coast’s Democracy
Public trust in politicians – essential to individual freedom and collective development – depends…
Rusesabagina’s Case Has Been 60 Years In Making
Paul Rusesabagina, the hero of “Hotel Rwanda” movie will reappear in court this Friday,…
Why it’s time to abolish schools
The lockdown has revealed an embarrassing truth: education is mainly childcare Happiest days of…
The Age Of Empire Is Back
The battle over raw materials will decide who rules the world China is winning…
Can Navalny Take Down Putin?
Unlike the protests that roiled Russia in 2011-12 in response to Vladimir Putin’s third…
The UN Must Intervene in Tigray
When a state fails to prevent or alleviate atrocities within its territory, or if…
Accountability is Essential for African Union’s Credibility
Speech by President Paul Kagame as he delivered Progress Report on the Institutional Reform…
The Silent Pandemic of Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance has been a slow-growing scourge, fueled in part by relatively weak political…
An Africa Roadmap for Biden
For years, the US-Africa relationship has fallen short of what it could be, owing…
Global Democracy In Crisis: How Trump Empowers Dictators
A supporter of President Trump carries a Confederate flag on the second floor of…
Doing Democracy During the Pandemic
Social distancing laws, curfews, and track-and-trace technologies employed in the context of the COVID-19…
It’s time to consider delaying the second dose of coronavirus vaccine
Robert M. Wachter is chair of the department of medicine at the University of…
A Messy Financial Divorce for the US and China
Even as official financial decoupling progresses, US and other financial firms are – with…
Managing Well in the Work-From-Home Era
Managers owe it to their employees to stop treating work from home like a…
Kick-Starting FDI in Africa
To help catalyze growth and tackle extreme poverty, African leaders must try to attract…
The Infrastructure Spending Challenge
Macroeconomists broadly agree that productive infrastructure spending is welcome after a deep recession, especially…
Giving With The Heart And The Head
The world’s most effective charities do much more good, per dollar spent, than typical…
A Triumph of German Innovation and Immigration
BioNTech’s new-model RNA-based vaccine has emerged as the leading contender to bring an end…
America’s Captured Courts
Decades ago, a group of powerful US corporate interests recognized that the unpopular policies…
Vaccine Apartheid
Because a pandemic can be overcome only when it is overcome everywhere, embracing an…
Ending Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
In the past decade alone, nearly 1,000 journalists globally have been killed in connection…
Biden’s Precarious Victory
After surviving a grueling election campaign and a cliff-hanger election, Joe Biden will most…
A Tech Role Model for Nigeria
India has proved that three policies – lowering the cost of mobile data, implementing…
