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The news that northern areas of Kenya were suffering famine came as a surprise to analysts on many fronts. Kenya is seen as a stable East African growth economy and Nairobi, its…
IKEA, the world’s largest furniture manufacturer, made a large donation today to help starving people in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
Well, that’s what…
It’s the tension that characterised Twentieth Century economics: freshwater versus saltwater. A few of America’s great economics programmes, all of them near…
The current strategy to contain the spread of nuclear weapons depends upon the technological infancy of the "bad guys." In essence, it is assumed that…
The European Union and its member states continue to struggle to find a response to the Arab Spring. Past policy approaches had little impact on the area’s regimes, if anything…
The IMF is one of the most misunderstood (and poorly explained, to spread the blame a bit) institutions in finance. This week, while I was in New York, it was thrust into the…
Rarely were the price increases so enormous, rarely was the helplessness of the industrialized countries so great as in the rare earths sector. While precious metals like silver…
Following the earthquake and the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, a state of shock, intuitive defensiveness and frantic political activity of those in charge of utility companies as…
Black with gold lettering. It feels heftier than most passports, maybe due to the thicker paper used on the visa pages. Before it is born, it is simply black vinyl and a dozen…
How much does popular music influence society? How does it shape society’s image of itself? How does it change a society’s image of other societies? It’s been…