Tag: opinions
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…
Crises and Contraception
As humanitarian organizations work to provide adequate food, water, and shelter to Mozambique’s displaced…
Justice in a Hijacked State
The international community has long favored trying to cajole the Central African Republic’s warring…
Analysis: What is going on at the Vatican’s communications department?
How does the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication work? That is what many are wondering…
How NGOs can partner with a Rwandan AgTech Start-Up to grow farmers incomes
Shambapro is a young ambitious AgTech start-up with a revolutionary vision for agribusiness of helping…
Africa’s WTO Moment
If she is chosen to head the World Trade Organization, former Nigerian finance minister…
Policing Truth in the Trump Era
Social-media companies’ only incentive to tackle the problem of fake news is to minimize…
How the Green Revolution Is Harming Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing climate change should have taught us the importance of…
Leveraging Africa’s Informal Economy for Young People
To create quality job opportunities for Africa’s growing youth population, the continent’s governments should…
Post-Pandemic Geopolitics
Estimating the long-term effect of the current pandemic is not an exact prediction of…
Returning to Multilateralism
For 75 years, the United Nations has provided an imperfect but unrivaled global forum…
Africa Needs Market-Creating Innovation
Africa’s economic growth over the last 25 years has been accompanied by soaring inequality,…
Don’t Buy Bezosware
Modern newsrooms depend on content-management systems to enable journalists to plan, write, edit, and…
A Healthy Earth Needs Indigenous Peoples
A growing body of evidence shows that lands and waters that are owned, managed,…
Africa’s Peace and Prosperity Begin at Home
For too long, Africa has been a strategic plaything of world powers. By bolstering…
Stop Doing Business
The World Bank should no longer publish its Doing Business index, owing to its…
The Great Services Illusion
In the wake of COVID-19, some economists are calling for developing countries to shift…
Mapping a Better Future for Africa’s Farmers
GPS-enabled smartphones provide an unprecedented opportunity for governments, funders, and NGOs to collaborate with…
Digital Finance Is the Key to Post-Pandemic Development
After decades of rising inequality and unsustainable investment, we have the tools and knowhow…
The EU Is Fueling Hunger in Africa
Africa is becoming a new COVID-19 epicenter. Unless the European Union urgently rethinks its…
Communicating Public Health and Social Justice
The way authority figures such as media and political leaders communicate with the public…
China’s Great Wall of Water
With water levels rising and the Three Gorges Dam reservoir reaching capacity, China has…
