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New Issue of International Affairs Forum: 2025: A Reset in Uncertain Times
Read the latest issue of emstrongInternational Affairs Forum where academics, practitioners, and our Student Award Winners discuss issues facing the world in 2025, from democracy, to climate change, A...
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Breaking the Chinese Aid Trap in Sub-Saharan Africa
An analysis of how American & Western support for the markets & efficient governance in Africa can help. By Sam Yeboah. (02/22/2025)
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Global Developmental Agencies at Work
Report on event discussing global and regional developmental agencies and how they drive sustainable development. By Kamila Bogdanova. (09/18/2024)
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Beautiful Minds for Africa
Jeffrey Sachs and Secretary-General Isiaka A. Imam’s insight into the Africa’s economic potential. By Dunja Spasojevic. (08/19/2024)
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The Future of Africa, with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
Report on Prof. Jeffrey Sachs's recent lecture about development in Africa. By Lily Ong. (08/16/2024)
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War and Development: Is the Stagnation the Price of Peace?
Author revisits the literature on the connection between civil war and development. Is stagnation “the cost” of peace, as Jinan Ganesh recently argued? By David Shipton. (04/25/2024)
Development NGOs in Ghana: perceptions of the ‘do-gooders’ struggling to reduce economic inequality
Paper uses perception studies to investigate why NGO-led development work and PD projects have not succeeded in significantly reducing inequality in Ghana. By Fenja Tramsen. (09/26/2023)
Interview with the Secretary-General of the Developing Eight States’ Organization for Economic Cooperation (D-8), His Excellency Amb. Isiaka Abdulqadir Imam. (08/10/2023)
Parallel Track on Developmental Issues: Western China and Southern Sudan
Essay analyzes the right to development, particularly those in rural and vulnerable categories (females, children, indigenous). By Cheng Huang. (04/26/2022)
Concise history of international development – from the UN University Rector Dr. Malone
Dr. David M. Malone presents his take on the history of international development and engagement of international FORAs, particularly in the planetary South – from WWI to present. By Gu...
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IA Forum - The Post-Pandemic World
In the latest issue of International Affairs Forum, experts from around the world examine aspects of a post-Pandemic globe. 07/21/2020
Examining Attitudes of International Development Volunteering and Voluntourism
Paper examines how the preconceived notions of those embarking on an internship compare with those who have already gone on the internship and what they had originally hoped for. By Lauren Davis, S...
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What Nigeria Should Learn from China’s Great Economic Transformation
What can developing countries such as Nigeria learn about economic development? By Chambers Umezulike. (02/13/2020)
Making Basic Education Physically Accessible in ‘Education Ostracized Communities’
This paper examines the IBIS- Ghana a name in a symbolic reference to an Ibis bird Project efforts toward making basic education physically accessible in order to provide the empirical evidence req...
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Interrogating Nigeria’s Tenth-Rate Development Performance through the Lenses of Institutional Extra
The factor of institutional extractiveness applied to Nigeria. By Chambers Umezulike. (03/01/2018)