PRETORIA: Over dinner in Algiers recently, we asked each other whether the youth-led revolutions unfolding in northern Africa presage the awakening of economic lions throughout the continent. Could the changes unfolding in the Arab north usher in an (...)
ACCRA: When you fly into Takoradi, Ghana's fourth largest city and an industrial and commercial center, one of the first things you notice are the oil rigs along the coast. It is a panorama that is increasingly characteristic of modern-day (...)
MEXICO CITY: If you are reading this article, you most likely have electricity and heat at home and never think of that fact as at all remarkable. But over 2 billion people — one in three people on our planet — have no access to modern energy to (...)
VIENNA: These days, a dollar won't get you very far in a rich economy. But in a poor country like the one I come from, Sierra-Leone, even half a dollar can save a life or feed an entire family. Every penny invested in Africa counts today and to (...)