Category International Development
Why Iraq’s Consociation Has Become a Driver for Chronic Instability
Book Excerpt: The Migration-Development Regime
Why the Global Skills Partnership between Morocco and Belgium is a Positive-Sum Game
Why China is Serbia’s New Main Ally in the Kosovo Independence Dispute
Book Review: Aid Imperium by Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr.
Moroccan Decentralization: Towards Community Development and National Solidarity
Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir first introduced us to development and decentralization in Morocco in 2018. In this new piece, he re-examines and updates Morocco’s progress towards sustainable development. Background on Moroccan Decentralization Decentralization in the Kingdom of Morocco—aiming to make unprecedented…
Three to Tango: Argentina, IMF, and Debt
An examination of Argentina’s current political economy reveals that many structural vulnerabilities persist to this day. Will the current IMF program work?
Why U.S. Foreign Aid Should Not Be Conditioned on United Nations General Assembly Voting Patterns
Tying U.S. aid to individual recipient countries’ voting patterns in the UNGA ... would ultimately deprive the United States of a great tool with which it has so uniquely built its greatness around the world and the world around it: foreign aid.
A Model to Implement Sustainable Development in Morocco
In terms of human development potential, Morocco is a nation of immense promise, where gifted fortunes of nature such as wide-ranging organic agricultural products come together with dynamic social development frameworks. Moroccan development opportunities could launch the country into a haven for community-managed projects and change in Africa and the Near East.
Mutual Delegitimization: American and Chinese Development Assistance in Africa
How can China’s ideas of development assistance to Africa be regarded within the context of a wider struggle among global powers? In contrast to the dominant public understanding that Chinese aid has “no strings attached,” authors Salvador Regilme and Henrik Hartmann from the University of Leiden show that US and Chinese governments’ aid strategies champion their own geostrategic national interests in the African continent.
Kindercare in Kazakhstan: How Early Childhood Education Will Achieve Strategy 2050 Goals
Early childhood education (ECE) should be an integral part of Kazakhastan’s Strategy 2050, argues SAIS student Brynn Koeppen. ECE would help prepare students for university and productive careers and allow more mothers to return to the workforce sooner, growing the economy. It would also help close the gap in opportunity between rural and urban areas of the country and contribute to a more cohesive society.