India can adopt a new path to development, one that no developing country has taken before, wherein its firms come up with world-beating ideas and products and deliver them globally. No large ...

A man scrolls through his mobile phone to carry out a transaction via M-Pesa in Nairobi, Kenya on May 12, 2009 (Noor Khamis/Courtesy Reuters). Last week on my blog, Democracy in Development, I ...

Yesterday on my blog, I highlighted five innovations poised to have a big impact on global development in 2013. As I write about one of them, Africa’s broadband revolution: ...this expansion of ...

The position of democracy in Southeast Asia has fluctuated since the Asian Financial Crisis, with democratic concerns gaining prominence in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, particularly ...

Botswana Minister of Minerals and Energy Bogolo Kenewendo spoke at the World Leaders Forum in Low Library on Monday, delivering an address on the nation’s democratic history and natural resource ...

China’s President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that the issues of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to development are “red lines” for China and not to be challenged, the ...

Six months before she died, in October 2021, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright published a memorable essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Coming Democratic Revival.” Amid rising pessimism ...

Modalities for the implementation of local government autonomy are being sorted out by the federal government, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, said yesterday in Lagos.