In pursuing meaningful sustainable development, and investing in conservation and redressing the environmental damage caused by decades of neglect, we need to better explore and…
International Economist
In pursuing meaningful sustainable development, and investing in conservation and redressing the environmental damage caused by decades of neglect, we need to better explore and…
I’ve suggested recently that although high economic growth in recent decades has greatly improved average life expectancy, infant mortality, and other leading indicators policymakers and…
Global development as a universal objective to improve people’s social and economic wellbeing is a relatively recent concept. It was first embodied in the United…
Since the vast majority of the problems which humanity faces today are global in nature, the world needs more, not less international cooperation. Major planetary…
In his fine book The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization, professor Thomas Homer-Dixon refers to the projected divergence in average…
EEOC 35th Anniversary Art ContestChelsea Lapp, Age 11Sixth GradeFlying Hills Elementary SchoolEl Cajon, CA We have learned much over the past several decades about the…
The relationship between growth and income inequality is more complex than the one between growth and poverty, and has been the subject of considerable study.…
Augusto Lopez-Claros & Valeria Perotti The transformation of Japan into a modern economy at the end of the 19th century is a tale of culture…
In our earlier blogs on corruption we have looked at the causes and consequences of corruption within the process of economic development. In our last blog,…
The 2008-2009 global financial crisis led to a number of large–scale government interventions across the world. These included massive provisions of liquidity, the takeover of…