Both the increasing debt and uncontrolled militancy will keep the pot boiling and Pakistan in a mess for some time to come ...

The initial promise of CPEC was intoxicating: $46 billion in pledged investments, later ballooning to $65 billion, meant to overhaul Pakistan’s infrastructure, bridge energy shortfalls, and create ...

A former deputy secretary general at the OAS, Ramdin is running against Paraguay Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano. While the two are the official candidates, a third unofficial recently entered ...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) allayed fears that the country was on the verge of sliding into a debt trap, saying Nigeria's debt level is "moderate and not high risk". IMF's First Deputy Managing ...

Ethiopia’s dual engagement epitomizes the “paradox of weakness” in realist theory: smaller states, seeking autonomy through diversification, often become more vulnerable. The dual-bloc strategy has ...

Despite decades of foreign aid and periodic debt relief, Malawi remains one of the world’s poorest with 72 percent of Malawians living below the $2.15 per day poverty line. Recent macroeconomic trends ...

Should prepare economy for durable growth by attracting foreign private investments to boost productivity and exports.

Kenya continues to breach the IMF’s debt sustainability thresholds ... The informal sector, which employs most Kenyans, remains a trap of low wages and job insecurity. Unlike Ghana, where ...

The UK government took time off from cutting social welfare, ramping up its military budget and undermining a possible US-Russia détente which would end the Ukraine war, to sanction four Sri Lankans ...

Germany scraps its debt brake, unleashing a 500-billion-euro investment plan that could transform infrastructure, defence, ...

According to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), among Africa's ... been the main creditor behind African debt. The "Chinese debt trap" theory has been repeatedly debunked.