A Tributary Model of State Formation: Ethiopia, 1600-2015 addresses the perplexing question of why a pedigreed Ethiopian state failed to transform itself into a nation-state. Using a ...

The authors set out to use what economists can say with some certainty to find common ground in the great debates of our time, such as those about migration, trade, economic growth, climate, and ...

London Business School is regularly ranked as Europe's foremost institution for business and management education, and comes high up in any rankings for the best MBA providers in the world. We asked ...

This is the story of one of the world’s greatest (but least famous) con artists. Ghana’s John Ackah Blay-Miezah bilked investors on several continents by promising he knew where lost gold was hidden.

"The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century" presents policy proposals from discussions convened among 50 of the world’s leading economists and policy experts at the London School ...

The book examines the context and circumstances that spurred these six central figures to devise or promote the solutions ...

On Aug. 15, 1947, British colonial rule in South Asia officially ended. The four independent states that eventually emerged in its place — India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh — all faced urgent ...