The Official Blog of Amb. David H. Shinn

  Ethiopia Insight published on 16 September 2026 a commentary titled " Tigray's Liberation Must End in Freedom " by Getachew...

 The massive World Happiness Report 2024 is now available online, published in partnership with Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centr...

 The World Happiness Report 2022 has just been published.  The country rankings of happiness are based on a three-year average from 2019 th...

Freedom House has just released its " Freedom on the Net " report that assessed the level of internet and digital media freedom in...

African Arguments posted on 2 July 2019 a report titled " 'I'm against All of the Laws of This Regime': What Sudan's W...

World Happiness Report 2018 is now available. It ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels as measured by GDP per capita, social suppo...

The Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom have just published " The Human Freedom Inde...

The 2018 World Happiness Report has just been released. It evaluates 156 countries based on the pooled results from Gallup World Poll surve...

Forbes has released its 2017 global listing of Best Countries for Business . It evaluated 139 countries on the basis of the following 11 f...

The World Happiness Report 2015 edited by John Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs has just been released.  Switzerland ranks as t...

International Migration Review published in its spring 2014 issue an article titled " 'Big Fish in a Small Pond': Chinese Migr...

The Washington-based TV station ESAT asked me to join a program focused on democracy .  Assegid Habtewold was the moderator and Getachew Met...