A US$250 million loan, approved last week, will ease Jordan’s fiscal strains, which have been deepened by the influx of…
You heed Teddy’s advice: Speak softly and carry a big stick. That’s how a bear is brought to its senses.…
As Sub-Saharan Africa develops rapidly, it is estimated that the continent will need millions of engineers just to reach a…
The external scenario is less favourable for the region due to the downturn in global trade, the moderation in commodity…
The EU is largely on track to meet its climate change-related goals for 2020. While this is a considerable achievement,…
Time is money and a lot of money and opportunities are being lost due to painstakingly long customs procedures, waiting…
Financial exclusion restricts economic opportunity and constrains poverty reduction. Yet today there are an estimated 2.5 billion adult people worldwide…
From building shelters in Haiti or helping to improve the school system in South Sudan, to buying medicines in Myanmar…
Last month’s award of the Nobel Prize in Economics set off a great deal of chuckling because one of the…
Extreme weather events such as prolonged heat waves in Argentina, killer typhoons in the Pacific and violent storms lashing the…