Ghana Resident: Why Does China Send Workers To Africa When So Many Here Are Unemployed?
The China Africa Project explores tough questions about the country and continent’s relationship. This week, we talk about unemployment and ...
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Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures
Cities are mankind’s most enduring and stable mode of social organization, outlasting all empires and nations over which they have ...
Oil prices are plummeting again because big oil states failed to freeze their production
More evidence of mayhem among oil drillers has triggered a selloff in the market: Oil prices are down more than ...
Why Forests are Key to Climate, Water, Health, and Livelihoods
March 21, the International Day of Forests, is an opportunity to highlight the central role forests play in ecology and ...
Oil’s Fall Is a Challenge for Gulf Economies, but Also an Opportunity
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies have achieved a remarkable transformation over the past 30 years. Saudi Arabia and its ...
Breaking the Gender Earnings Gap
*Few women work in male-dominated industries in Africa and globally.*Women in typically male sectors earn as much as their male ...
Could our future nurses and caregivers be robots?
Welcome your new job takers and caregivers. The coming decade will see societies transform as humans learn to live alongside ...
The Effectiveness Of China’s Industrial Policy
Like all major economies of the world, strategic industrial policy is key and core to their development agenda. The case ...
Now or Later? Politics and Public Investment
Catering to voters as elections approach can upend intelligent decisions on infrastructure spendingVirtually all countries need additional infrastructure such as ...
Revenue Mobilization and International Taxation: Key Ingredients of 21st-Century Economies
Already some 260 years ago, the great philosopher and economist Adam Smith noted:“Little else is required to carry a state ...