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ABUJA – On October 24, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the body created by the G7 to combat threats...

CAPE TOWN – A growing chorus of Western media outlets, think tanks, and financial commentators is questioning whether Africa’s multilateral...

CAPE TOWN – The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) will be the first to take place in the...

WASHINGTON, DC – OpenAI Co-Founder Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have joined the...

LONDON – Why are citizens of free countries increasingly disenchanted with democracy and tempted to vote for populists and authoritarians?Peruse...

ABIDJAN/CLERMONT-FERRAND/OXFORD – The value-added tax (VAT) is one of the most widely implemented tax innovations of the past 70 years....

NEW YORK – On September 24, 20 democratic countries from the Global North and South – including Brazil, Chile, Norway,...

WASHINGTON, DC – As was widely expected, the US Federal Reserve has lowered its policy rate by 25 basis points,...

PARIS – In November 1985, during their first summit in Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev slipped away...

CAMBRIDGE – To understand the populist revolt against free trade and other pillars of mainstream economics – a revolt that...