Violence-prone Latin American and Caribbean countries have been added to ACLED’s open-source conflict database – a first look. Source: The New...
On Social and Economic Development
ON DEVELOPMENT | The dancing prisoners of Burkina Faso
The Healing Power in Action Wonderful to see the healing power of dance captured in this article and photos. For another great story highlighting...
ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Global poverty conference to be held in a slum
Inaugural World Poverty Forum – dubbed ‘Davos with the poor’, a global conference on poverty, is to take place in Africa’s largest slum in an effort...
ON IMMIGRATION | A dozen facts about immigration
This document provides a set of economic facts about the role of immigration in the U.S. economy, describing the patterns of recent immigration, the...
ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Downward mobility: Where middle-class kids are worse off than their parents
[The economic pressures that trigger resistance to new immigrants] We hear a lot about upward mobility. But what goes up must come down. Source:...
ON THE MEDIA | Robert Greene’s ‘Bisbee ’17’ documentary revisits historic deportation
Documentary "Bisbee '17" looks to the past to understand today. ... artifice can be the most direct route to the truth. That’s especially the case...
ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Another global financial crisis for developing countries?
George Soros, Bill Gates and other pundits have been predicting another financial crisis. In their recent book, Revolution Required: The Ticking...
ON THE MEDIA | China Is Buying African Media’s Silence
I wrote about Chinese oppression in a South African paper. Hours later, they canceled my column. Foreign Policy, Opinion, BY AZAD ESSA | SEPTEMBER...
ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Revisiting privatization’s claims
Advocates made exaggerated claims that privatization would reduce governments’ fiscal problems while ensuring more efficient, productive and...
ON THE MEDIA | Life in Eritrea’s News Desert
What the country teaches the world about the importance of an independent press. Source: Life in Eritrea’s News Desert
ON DEVELOPMENT | Destabilizing Rescissions to Foreign Aid Funds Reportedly Halted | MFAN
The Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network applauds the efforts of Congress and development champions to safeguard predictability for U.S....
ON DEVELOPMENT | Blood, Sweat, and Batteries
Two-thirds of the world's cobalt, an essential ingredient in our smartphones and electric cars, comes from one of the planet's poorest countries....