On 11 April, following six days of protests, a cabal of military officers, security chiefs and paramilitary commanders overthrew Omar al-Bashir.

Critics have called new World Bank president David Malpass an arsonist in charge of a fire department, because of past comments he made on Bank salaries and loans to China.

Some twenty years ago, seeing a person holding a plastic bottled water on the street and even a guest bringing a case of two dozen of bottled water to your home were not the scene in the city’s social landscape.

The “Green New Deal” (GND) proposed by progressives in the United States cannot be achieved in isolation.

Governments built the current systems and institutions of international cooperation to address nineteenth- and twentieth-century problems.

Once upon a time, everyone assumed that there was a single phenomenon called globalization, whereby cross-border flows of financial capital drove innovation, industrialization, development, and trade.

The number of people who are being internally displaced in Ethiopia has been increasing exponentially over the past year-currently estimated to be over three million people – the highest in the world.

Some months ago a friend had invited me to a birthday ceremony. There had been a fair number of attendees to the ceremony.

At a time when Ethiopia seems to be at a crossroads, the state of the “political space” requires a soul-searching contemplation.

Behind today's populist upheavals is a widespread recognition that the economy no longer serves the public good, or even the interests of most of its participants.