In November 2022, the Ethiopian government signed a cease-fire with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The international community…
It is painfully clear that South Africa is performing poorly, exacerbating problems such as inequality and exclusion. The economy’s ability…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While…
The authors emphasize that the world urgently requires trillions of dollars to invest in climate action and biodiversity protection to keep…
The famine in the Horn of Africa reinforced the image of a continent struggling to feed itself. Behind these images of seeming despair,…
Libyans have a new lease on life, a feeling that, at long last, they are the masters of their own fate. Perhaps Iraqis, after a decade of…
Looking out the airplane window at a white winter landscape in Oslo yesterday, I thought back to another flight. Several years ago, a U.N.…
The role of science, technology, and engineering in solving Africa's most challenging economic problems—from telecommunications to…
Today, three of ten people on the planet rely on others to grow their food and 900 million remain chronically food insecure. By 2050 the…