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U.N. Development Expert Pedro Conceição Answers Your Questions

The interview with the director of Office of Development Studies at the United Nations Development Program discusses how the global economic downturn has affected the poorest countries. By Catherine ... Read More...

Chinese Foreign Investment: Insist on Transparency

China is the largest foreign holder of U.S. public debt. In just the last few years, China has invested roughly $100 billion in Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere. By Derek Scissors (Heritage Fou... Read More...

Can China Keep Growing?

Discusses how China has reacted to the global financial crisis, how it fits into the global economy and if it will allow China to continue growing. Read More...

African Opportunities, Global Benefits

The global economic recession has translated into a development crisis for Africa, writes Kofi A. Annan. (Project Syndicate, 07/13/2009) Read More...

Rising temperatures: The Potential Impact on Growth in Poorer Countries

This article analyzes the empirical evidence that rising temperatures are negatively correlated with economic growth in poorer countries. By Melissa Dell, Benjamin Jones, and Benjamin Olken (Internat... Read More...

U.S.-China Relations: The Case for Economic Liberalism

Patience and reasonable expectations on the part of the US are important to maintaining healthy political relations and ensure the best outcome economically for both nations. By James A. Dorn (CATO In... Read More...

Ghana's Chance

This article discusses the challenges and opportunities for growth in Ghana's economy as it attempts to be one of Africa's few success stories. By Peter Henry (International Growth Centre 6/18/2009) Read More...

China's Stock Market: A Marriage of Capitalism and Socialism.

An investigation of the growth of China's stock market despite a number of institutions commonly considered to adversely affect market growth. (Cato Institute, Fall 2006) Read More...

G8 Africa Action Plan

The G8 discusses issues regarding African development such as intra-African trade, increasing access to financing, reducing capital flight, and the role of China. Mwangi S. Kimenyi (The Brookings Inst... Read More...

The Pope on 'Love in Truth'

The Pope’s third encyclical, Caritas in Veritate is concerned with morality, not shoring up anyone’s political agenda. By Fr. Robert A. Sirico (Wall Street Journal, 07/10/2009) Read More...

Vaticanomics: The Holy Father Tackles Globalization

Pope Benedict's Encyclical Letter is full of critical comments about commerce, the profit motive, banks and businesses. Yet for all its left-wing rhetoric on economic matters, the underlying assumptio... Read More...

IMF Says World Economy Stabilizing

The IMF issues an encouraging, yet cautious, prediction for the global economic recovery. Although praising the macroeconomic and stimulus efforts, the Fund maintains that the financial sector is not ... Read More...

Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and Peace: Reflections on Turkey's Economy

Hanke explains how recent economic and financial improvements aren't enough in Turkey. In order for Turkey to reach its full potential as a modern and competitive state, a new set of liberal economic... Read More...

The Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomic Disorder

Author presents Austrian Prespective on the Great Recession of 2008. By Steven Horwitz (George Mason University, June 2009) Read More...

In Search of the Exit

As attention turns to how to unwind emergency measures, much depends on how the American and Euro zone recoveries develop. By Ralph Atkins and Krishna Guha (Financial Times, 06/28/2009) Read More...

North Korea's Other Crisis: An Economy in Tatters

An article detailing the economic crisis in North Korea, which is a result of further economic centralization of the economy, during what appears to be a wave of retrograde policies. (Time, 06/30/200... Read More...

A Global Recovery Needs A Global Response

It is time to begin the restructuring of our global economic and financial system, in ways that ensure that the fruits of prosperity are more widely shared and that the system is more stable. By Josep... Read More...

America's Next President Must Master the Tyranny of the Urgent

The biggest job for the new US administration is to find better methods of governing an interdependent world. By Strobe Talbott. (Brookings Institution, 11/02/2008) Read More...

Time to Bring Mahatma Gandhi Back

India’s essential challenge is to take up Gandhi’s mantle and boldly imagine a future that is different from the West’s present, writes Mira Kamdar. (Project Syndicate, 06/11/2009) Read More...

A Global Perestroika

The economical and political model that emerged during the final decades of the 20th century has turned out to be unsustainable. The current model does not need adjusting; it needs replacing. By Mikha... Read More...

Can Economic Growth Stop Climate Change?

Revisiting the "limits to growth" theory, the director of Share the World's Resources considers why political leaders are taking so little action on climate change. By Rajesh Makwana (Global Policy, 0... Read More...

How Economists Can Misunderstand The Crisis

Argues that Paul Krugman's account of today's crisis draws an unwarranted parallel with the Great Depression. By Niall Ferguson (Financial Times, 05/29/2009) Read More...

Sustainability Equals Prosperity

We must think about and work to advance the sustainability agenda for what it really is: a prosperity agenda, says UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. (Project Syndicate, 05/22/2009) Read More...

China’s Final Frontier

The remote, rebellious western provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang are China’s poorest, but they hold vast natural wealth which Beijing is determined to control. By Parag Khanna (Prospect, June 2009) Read More...

Climate Smart Aid Is Anything But

International organizations like the World Bank and the UN are supposed to help the world’s poor. Fully convinced about doing good by curbing carbon emissions, they are pushing an anti-development age... Read More...

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Will China Save the World from Depression?

China's stimulus package is not likely to bail out either the Chinese peasants or the global economy, says Walden Bello. (Foreign Policy In Focus, 05/19/2009) Read More...

Exclusion And Exploitation: The IMF In Global Governance

Essay argues that modern financial institutions like the IMF disadvantage developing countries and suggests alternative ways which could perhaps act as better financial substitutes for developing coun... Read More...

Nedbank: SA will be in recession

Aricle on the effects of the global recession on South Africa's economy. By Reuters (FIN24.com,05/14/2009) Read More...

Does Marx still matter?

Various authors debate the relevance of Marx to the global economic crisis. (Foreign Policy, May/June 2009) Read More...

Assessing the Russian Economy

Commentators share their thoughts on the state of the Russian economy and the influence of the Kremlin and respond to the statement: For in reality, Russian financial confidence is solely the resul... Read More...

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