Most of the 54 countries in Africa are unitary – the power to govern them resides mostly in a centralised government. Only Ethiopia and Nigeria are fully federal while others like South Africa, the ...

Nine years after its launch, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is likely to be replaced with a new mission focusing on spatial planning, solid and liquid waste management, ...

After the bodies are recovered and debris cleared from New Orleans, the federal government will no doubt accept blame for an agonizingly slow response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. As a U.S ...