The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is incredibly resource-rich—the country is the main producer of cobalt for instance, a key element in lithium-ion batteries. However, the DRC remains deeply impoverished. Civil wars and conflict, fueled by competition over minerals, have devastated infr...
Convergence is obviously desirable in a country where the straggling states are home to some of the world’s poorest people. But it might also help avert a political peril: that rich states start wondering if being lumped with far poorer peers is in their interests, and start thinking the un...
billion, opened by Kenya’s president as one of the country’s largest infrastructure project since independence, in Mombasa, Kenya, on May 30, 2017, as part of a plan to link a large part of East Africa to a major port on the Indian Ocean as China seeks to increa...
household SEP was the most important attribute explaining the large variation in supplies. This is consistent with other studies in which protein and IAA supplies have been found to be strongly correlated with the gross domestic product (GDP) at country level and with household wealth when dietary...