Well-travelled international law teachers, students, and practitioners know there are a few countries that defy mastery. Repeated trips to such countries across decades, and still the sense of wonder, indeed inscrutability, prevails. At or near the top of this short list of countries that...

The country benefited from the improved external demand in 2017. Global growth is estimated to have picked up in 2017 to 3.0 percent from 2.4 percent in 2016, reflecting gradual recovery in the euro area, China, emerging Europe, and Russia as commodity prices and financial markets continued to...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to experience a severe fiscal crisis, which threatens to become protracted given recent and projected declines in donor assistance. The PA is making a concerted effort to strengthen its fiscal position, including taking steps to raise domestic revenues...