Jun 25, 2013
President Obama will visit Africa this week for the second time in five years, stopping in Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania. Expectations that Obama would pay special attention the continent ran high upon his first election, and some development experts have been disappointed in what they regard as his...
Jun 11, 2013
The US government gives about $30 billion in aid each year—less than one percent of the US budget and less than 0.2 percent of the US GDP. Even so, the US United States remains the world’s largest donor, providing nearly a quarter of the roughly $133 billion spent annually on foreign aid.
So US development...
Jun 4, 2013
Latin America’s central banks, having halted runaway inflation in the late in the later part of the 20th Century, now need greater latitude in their mandates to cope with the economic risks of the 21st Century, most of which are likely to originate outside the region, according to a group of the region’s top...