List of Economic Development articles
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Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) applauds on May 23, 2016 during the World Humanitarian Summit family photo session in Istanbul. The over 60 heads of state and government gathered for the two-day summit convened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will have to defeat considerable scepticism that the event will turn into a well-intentioned but fruitless talking shop. / AFP / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images) Why the World Humanitarian Summit Meeting in Turkey Really Does Matter
John Norris told Foreign Policy readers that the Istanbul conference would be irrelevant. It wasn’t.
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Korengal_Valley_2003[1] But Will It Scale in Kabul?
As troops draw down in Afghanistan, a handful of ambitious U.S. veterans are launching start-ups in the country where they once went to war.
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WorldBank_image1 Is Jim Kim Destroying the World Bank — or Saving it From Itself?
The good doctor Kim is out to salvage the bank's global relevance. But his radical reforms have critics calling for his head.
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PANAMA CITY, PANAMA - APRIL 07: Part of the Panama City skyline is seen as revelations about the law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co continue to play out around the world on April 7, 2016 in Panama City, Panama. The law firm, which specializes in setting up offshore companies, is at the center of an international scandal and continues to maintain it has broken no laws and that all its operations were legal. A report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists referred to as the 'Panama Papers,' based on information anonymously leaked from Mossack Fonesca, indicates possible connections between people setting up the offshore companies and money laundering. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) How Tax Havens Rip Off America …
And the poorest nations on Earth.
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Keenan_image_01-darker Dead Man’s Market and the Boy Gangs of Niger
Impoverished young men have menaced the city of Zinder with rapes and murders. Now Boko Haram wants to turn their ultra-violence into a weapon of war.
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Unknown-2 The Exchange: What Do Margaret Thatcher and Genghis Khan Tell Us About the Future of Globalization?
Jeffrey E. Garten and Robert Zoellick on refugees, women, and the connected world.
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American soldiers move on a street January 19, 2010. January 19, 2010 in Port-au-Prince. In all, "approximately 11,000 U.S. military personnel are currently supporting task force operations within Haiti and from US Navy and Coast Guard vessels off shore," US Southern Command said on its website January 19, 2010. AFP PHOTO / OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI (Photo credit should read Olivier Laban mattei/AFP/Getty Images) How Captain Jack Sparrow Explains the Problem with ‘America’s Backyard’
The Caribbean is awash in poverty, violence, and corruption.
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ANTALYA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 15: (Front row L-R) Chinese President Xi Jinping, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, US President Barack Obama, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Russian President Vladimir Putin, (2nd Row L-R) British Prime Minister David Cameron, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, (3rd row L-R) Guy Ryder, Director General of International Labour Organisation (ILO), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Angel Gurria (L), Secretary-General of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Bank of England Governor and Financial Stability Board (FSB) Chairman Mark Carney pose for a family photo during the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit on November 15, 2015 in Antalya, Turkey. (Photo by Berk Ozkan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) An Astonishing Year for the War on Global Poverty
2015 ended with a flurry of groundbreaking summits that reinvigorated the fight to end poverty and halt climate change. In 2016, we must capitalize on these gains.
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GettyImages-486511079 crop Africa’s Boom Is Over
Africa was never going to get far without manufacturing — and it can’t do so under today’s trade and investment treaties.
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GettyImages-162778111_960 There Are No Peasants Here
Honduras’ brave new economic experiment is buoying an era of development by kicking poor farmers off their land.
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FP_podcast_article_artwork-1-globalthinkers What Are Africa’s New Missionaries Peddling?
2014 Global Thinker and visual artist Sam Hopkins joins FP contributor Michela Wrong to discuss the aid industry's skewed view of East Africa — and how artists can offer a better picture.
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GettyImages-465321114 Chinese Finance Minister’s Advice to U.S. Fed: Keep Interest Rates at Zero
China wants the United States to keep interest rates near zero.
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US-British microeconomist Angus Deaton speaks during a press conference after winning the Nobel Prize for Economics at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, on October 12, 2015. Deaton won the Nobel Economics Prize for groundbreaking work using household surveys to show how consumers, particularly the poor, decide what to buy and how policymakers can help them. AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) Why Angus Deaton Deserved the Nobel Prize in Economics
For development economists like me, Deaton was a revolutionary and a visionary.
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GettyImages-471470048_960 The Fragility Within
As the problems that once divided the world into First, Second, and Third are held more and more in common, is it time for the global development community to overhaul its approach?
