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Mourning USAID in Washington.

West Africa

Trump is encouraging African despots

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by Vladimir Antwi-Danso
by Hans Dembowski
Demonstrators and lawmakers rally against US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk as they disrupt the federal government, including dismantling USAID, in Washington in February.

International cooperation

The destruction of American development policy

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by Stephan Klingebiel
Commodity prices have fallen, and cocoa production is declining: Ghanaian farmer spreading out cocoa beans to dry in the sunlight.

Sovereign default

After sovereign default, Ghana’s economic challenges persist

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by J. Atsu Amegashie
The coal age never ended: trucks at a Chinese port in 2024.

Book review

“Energy transition” does not mean what you think it does

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by Ipil Monica Baski
Climate related damages are getting worse: burnt houses in Los Angeles in January 2025.

Global environment

Irreversible climate disaster

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by Roli Mahajan
Young adults participate in The People's Plenary organized by civil society organizations in Caspian Plenary Room in Blue Zone during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP29.

Service

International conferences in 2025

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by D+C / E+Z
Discussion panel at the BMZ event Rethinking development policy: How to confront coloniality.

Overcoming colonialism

Cooperation, not assistance: overcoming colonial patterns

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by Jörg Döbereiner

Social media

European democracies under attack from North America

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by Hans Dembowski
Combined with incentives, generosity works: Nicholas Brady and George Bush Sr. at the White House in 1990.

Excessive sovereign debt

What G7 should do in response to sovereign debt crises

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by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
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