The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Global Food Price Index soared to its highest-ever level in February 2011, in both real and nominal terms. This dramatic rise was driven mostly by higher
One day in mid-April, Dr. Bernard Rieux spotted a dead rat in the building he lived in the Mediterranean city of Oran, Algeria. Thousands of rats staggered out of their hideouts in the following
Plenty of buzz surrounds BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) investment in Africa. Rightly so: they are spurring the region’s integration into the global economy as never before. Much has been