Banana skins are a “slippery” metaphor for risk and are yearly applied to microfinance with a worldwide survey with sub-sections and geographical segmentations, including also Sub-Saharan Africa. Credit risk is still considered the biggest threat, both globally and in Africa, as a...

How governments regulate food safety and environmental protection, including pesticide residue levels, has important implications for trade. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial held in Doha, Qatar in November 2001 included statements on standards and their impact on market access for...

How governments regulate food safety and environmental protection, including pesticide residue levels, has important implications for trade. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial held in Doha, Qatar in November 2001, included statements on standards, and their impact on market access...

Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...