List of Economic Development articles
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crop-458911340 USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah to Step Down
One of the Obama administration’s most charismatic and well-liked bureaucrats is leaving his job next month.
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Screen Shot 2014-12-11 at 4crop Why USAID Got Into Bed With Cuban Rappers
The U.S. Agency for International Development has been quietly backing Cuban rappers opposed to the Castro regime.
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UNICEF/Nicaragua-2013/ Terán It’s Time to Rethink How We Do Development
A group of development experts issues a plea for reform.
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-/AFP/Getty Images Fukuyama’s Fatalism
The great political thinker's new book offers a brilliant analysis of problems. But it doesn't go far enough with solutions.
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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images ‘Obama Is to America What Scott Is to Zambia’
Why does the first white head of state in an African democracy come as such a surprise?
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John Moore/Getty Images West Africa’s Financial Immune Deficiency
Health systems in Africa are ill-equipped to deal with Ebola. And that's partly the fault of IMF policies.
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HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images Is Laziness the Cause of Economic Inequality?
Americans and the British lean toward moral weakness, but the rest of the world blames government policies.
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ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images For the People, By the People in Indonesia
How one of Southeast Asia's most corrupt countries gave power over funding to its poorest citizens.
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Top image: Mario Tama/Getty Images How to Bring Brazil’s Economy Back to Life
The policies that helped Brazil to healthy growth over the past decade have lost momentum. The next president will need bold new ideas that look beyond the short term. Third in our series of Lab Reports on Brazil.
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MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images A Way Out of Crisis
Robust reform can seem impossible for governments mired in corruption. But the solution is pretty simple: Focus on policies, not politics.
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