Ukraine’s Maidan movement, the choice of President Petro Poroshenko last spring, and this past Sunday’s election of the most pro-European parliament in its history offers the West an historic opportunity. With Sunday’s decisive outcome, the U.S. and Europe need to offer Ukraine assistance through the IMF and other aid channels, a medium term fix for Ukrainian and …
Continue reading Ukraine’s People Have Spoken; Now The West Must Rise To The Occasion
Bangladesh now has 117.6 million mobile phone users, and Afghanistan has 21.6 million - both upwards of 70 percent of the population. Fifteen years ago there were essentially no cell users in either of these countries, yet a handful of entrepreneurs and investors in each decided they could create a telecom market in the heart of the developing …
Continue reading Development Finance Institutions Come of Age
I just finished Gabriel Zinny’s Educación 3.0, which covers the changing landscape of education both in the United States and in Latin America. The radical changes needed have major implications on U.S. foreign policy and development policy and should also be considered what my colleague Carl Meacham calls an "intermestic" issue, of both domestic and …
Continue reading Why the U.S. Should Worry About the Global Education Problem
n 2013, global mining revenues were an estimated $731 billion, or about five and a half times total annual official development assistance (ODA). A huge portion of this mining activity is taking place in the developing world. In Africa, 51 of 54 countries have ongoing or planned oil and gas exploration operations, and export data from 2010 indicates that about fifty …
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