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The Key to Affordable Power in West Africa?

Mustafa Zakir Hussain | World Bank Blogs | 07/22/2021

If you paid some of the highest electricity tariffs in the world, you would expect some of the most reliable electricity services. Unfortunately, this logic does not hold in West…

How LDCs can reset policy to attract more FDI

Helen Castell | Enhanced Integrated Framework | 07/20/2021

As foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countrie...

A World Divided: Global Vaccine Trade and Production

Lionel Guetta-Jeanrenaud, Niclas Poiters, Reinhilde Veugelers | Bruegel | 07/20/2021

Perhaps surprisingly, l...

Free Trade Is Dead. Risky ‘Managed Trade’ Is Here.

Edward Alden | Foreign Policy | 07/20/2021

For three quarters of a century, the growth of world trade—which...

Biden’s trade agenda is off to a rocky start

Bryan Riley | The Hill | 07/20/2021

So far, 2021 is shaping up to be an awful year for international trade. The...

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