How Chinese Foreign Investment is Challenging the United States
BY ELLY ROSTOUM For much of the twenty-first century, Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) has rapidly expanded, stretching Beijing’s influence
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When Development Isn’t Complicated
BY GRANT TUDOR AND JUSTIN WARNER “The explanation of the amazingly high standard of rice cultivation in Bali is to
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Wakanda First? Black Panther’s Case for Moral Trade
BY LAURA MERRYFIELD and PRANAV REDDY Black Panther begins with T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) grappling with the dilemma presented by his
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Are Global Goals Always Good? Reflections on the first anniversary of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
BY GRANT TUDOR September 25 marks the first anniversary of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): a list of global
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Rethinking the Use of Sovereign Wealth Funds in a Knowledge Economy
By Will Hickey The time has come for sovereign wealth funds to produce some meaningful value. Now conservatively valued at
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Beginning the End of Slums: How Micro-Mortgages Serve the Poor
BY NISHANT LALWANI It’s a hot Saturday morning in Ahmedabad, India—the last before the monsoons start—and Leeladhar Bhatt Hall is
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Needles in the Haystack: How a New Tool Is Unlocking Entrepreneurship in Africa
BY GREG LARSON If you want to learn a thing or two about business, just ask Leah Mugure Mwaura. Leah
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