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The Lebanon-Cyprus East Med deal is a new test for Turkey, one it is likely to fail

Rami Rayess | Alarabiya News | 07/23/2021

Every time two Mediterranean countries meet to discuss oil and gas in the eastern basin of the sea, Turkey feels boxed in. Doubly so if Cyprus, which falls under the…

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 worl...

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...

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