By Jimmy KUTIN For over six decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been more than just a donor agency in Ghana; it...
By Willem H. BUITER & Ebrahim RAHBARI Once again, the idea of negative interest rates has made headlines, following the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) decision...
By  Baptista S. GEBU The world woke up to the news of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s saga. The USAID-Trump shutdown saga...
Viewers across Africa to enjoy both live and repeat airings with multiple Grammy-Award winning rapper Kendrick Lamar taking over the Super Bowl halftime show ESPN,...
By Makafui AIKINS Chapter 1:  Empirical Trump is back! And naturally, so is his ‘the United States of America is a victim of international trade’ rhetoric. He...
By Hannah Gyamfua MENSAH The recent wave of deportations under the Trump administration has placed thousands of Ghanaians in a precarious situation. As of November 2024,...
By Dalia MARIN On February 23, German voters will elect a new federal parliament, and many expect the country’s established political parties to lose ground....
By Lucrezia Reichlin US President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade strategy will soon face a fundamental contradiction: imposing tariffs and rejecting multilateralism in the name of...
By Katharina PISTOR For decades, we have been told that government-operated businesses are bad for the economy. A staple of the “Washington Consensus” that emerged...
By Stephen S. ROACH It’s impossible to predict the outcome of a random experiment. Yet that is the task that awaits us as we try...