If your knowledge of Yemen was gained entirely from donor briefings and government statements, you might think it was a politically troubled, developmentally challenged country, like Egypt on a bad …
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Abigail Fielding-Smith

Abigail Fielding-Smith
Abigail Fielding-Smith is deputy editor at The Economist‘s 1843 magazine. Previously she was international editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Beirut correspondent for the Financial Times.
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On October 8 the International Monetary Fund issued the final report of its annual consultation with Lebanon. The report sounds out the resilient position of Lebanon throughout the global …
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Immediately after September 11, 2001, while the ruins of the World Trade Center still smoldered, some of the more thoughtful members of the punditocracy and the population asked the obvious …