Explanations of why Africa has lagged behind tend to reach for the familiar: weak governance, corruption, ethnic conflict, the legacy of colonial borders. Joe Studwell’s How Africa Works — the long-awaited companion to his influential How Asia Works — argues that these are largely symptoms rather than causes, and that the deeper constraint has been…
[Daily Maverick] Falling EU fertility, an ageing workforce and cautious regulation threaten Europe’s competitiveness; policymakers must balance family policy, skilled immigration and AI-led automation to sustain prosperity.
Africa’s 43.1 million displaced people generate an estimated $27 billion (Shs99.9 trillion) in annual income, according to a new report released by the Amahoro Coalition, challenging perceptions that refugees and internally displaced persons are solely dependent on humanitarian assistance. The report, titled The Opportunity in Displacement: Africa’s Untapped Investment Frontier, argues that displaced populations represent…
Voters in Switzerland have cast their final ballots on Sunday on an initiative championed by the top right-wing party to cap the rich Alpine country’s population at 10 million. Early results showed Swiss voters were leaning against it. The populist Swiss People’s Party, which has the most seats in parliament, has stirred up and fostered…
Dubbing it a “chaos initiative”, the government, other political parties, business leaders and trade unions argue it will deprive hospitals and hotels of much needed staff, and damage hard-won relations with the European Union, leaving non-EU member Switzerland isolated in a very risky world.
Cairo — The word heard most often at a two-day parliamentary forum in Cairo last week was not “commitment”; it was “follow-up.” And the difference mattered. Parliamentarians from Africa, Asia, and the Arab world gathered 28-29 April not to renew pledges made at last year’s TICAD9 summit in Yokohama, but to ask what had actually…
A stark warning from the World Bank has laid bare a growing crisis across Africa: economies are simply not expanding fast enough to create jobs for millions of young people entering the workforce each year. Speaking at the Spring Meetings held alongside the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Vice President Ndiamé Diop said the continent…
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QINGZHOU, CHINA – JUNE 16, 2025 – Citizens are viewing sand table at the sales office of a commercial residential property development in Qingzhou City, Shandong Province, China on June 16, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images China’s real estate sector has grappled with a deepening downturn for years. Now a shrinking population…
