Elections in Côte d’Ivoire: An Interview with Georges Tadonki
Against all odds, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) has just concluded one of the most successful presidential elections in recent African history, bringing a country which has teetered on the edge of crisis...
View ArticleKorea Takes Lead in Green Growth, Tackling Climate Change while Driving Economy
The team at 1minutetosavetheworld have published a blog documenting the follow-up from South Korea’s Lee Myung-bak administration last year setting an ambitious goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by...
View ArticleIndigenization Plays into China’s hands
The long-standing and ongoing boom in commodity prices has given natural resources investors much to cheer about. It’s also revived a leviathan once thought tamed: resource nationalism or...
View ArticleCongo and the Fight For Stability
Democratic Republic of Congo is seeking political stability, battling economic woes and stubborn rebel insurgencies as it gears up for elections due next year. The polls for the presidency and...
View ArticleWarsaw’s Bid to Be Central Europe’s Financial Hub
The Warsaw Stock Exchange aims to be Poland’s only power trading market, Chief Executive Officer Ludwik Sobolewski said today when asked about the government’s plans to sell its stake in the Polish...
View ArticleRussian Entrance into the WTO – The Globalization of the Russian Bear
Over a decade and a half after the commencement of membership negotiations, 2011 may see Russia’s long awaited entrance into the WTO. Endorsed by the EU and many individual European governments,...
View ArticleHaitian Police Take Ex-Dictator ‘Baby Doc’ to Court
Haitian police led ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier out of his hotel and took him to court today without saying whether he was being charged with crimes committed under his brutal regime. His longtime...
View ArticleUganda’s Planned Investment Doubles in February
In a surprise to many international political activists, Uganda’s planned investment more than double in February compared to the previous month, helped by the passage of a presidential election that...
View ArticleUzbekistan’s Half-Hearted War on Corruption
TASHKENT – Tuesday, October 18, 2011 – The latest in a series of corruption scandals in Uzbekistan is only a symptom of a much more widespread malaise, experts say. The state news agency carried a...
View ArticleRussia’s Sticky Stagnation
The following is an English translation of an article by economist Oleg Biklemishev published in Novaya Gazeta which outlines some of the main economic challenges Russia is facing headed into 2013....
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