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When donor dollars dwindle, can African budgets step up to fill the gap?
Washington is preparing deep cuts to the United States Agency for International Development, the body that has long sent the bulk of U.S. government aid to Africa. Draft budgets and…
Rebooting Carbon Markets: Can Government Backing Restore Trust and Demand?
When companies want to “cancel out” some of their greenhouse-gas emissions, they buy carbon credits—certificates showing that one tonne of CO₂ has been avoided or removed somewhere else. Most of…
Ghana’s $2.8 billion Common-Framework deal: a turning-point for Africa’s debt game?
Africa’s sovereign-debt arithmetic is sobering. The World Bank now puts the continent’s external public debt at roughly US $1.15 trillion, with scheduled payments ballooning to about US $170 billion in…
How the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism Could Reshape Global Trade — and Who Stands to Win or Lose
Can a carbon price set in Brussels change the cost of steel shipped from Jakarta? With EU carbon permits hovering around €74–76 per tonne in mid-June 2025, the answer is…
Trump Tariffs Could Shake Developing Nations The Most
In April 2025, Donald Trump made headlines again—this time with a fresh wave of tariffs. The new measures hit a wide range of imports: Chinese electronics, Latin American produce, African…
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