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Africans' Burden: West's Farm Subsidies

September 10, 2003
Ugandan cotton farmers are a prime example of developing world farmers who are losing the competition with their subsidized counterparts in Europe and the United States; simply making ends meet is difficult. At the new meeting of the Doha trade talks in Cancun this week, African countries are...

A Denuclearization Deal in Beijing: The Prospect of Ending the 20th Century in East Asia

February 23, 2007
The February agreement to begin the denuclearization process of North Korea could usher in a new era of peace and cooperation for a once volatile region. The agreement required diplomacy – the US willing to back away from its stance of refusing to talk with North Korea before the nuclear program...

Making Business Work for the Poor

March 17, 2004
As the debate on how to best alleviate poverty in developing countries continue to rage, Ernesto Zedillo, the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and the former president of Mexico, suggests one commonsense solution – facilitating private entrepreneurship to help people pull...

Making Innocents Pay for Other's Sins

October 6, 2004
The continually fragile security situation in Iraq has bred a climate of fear for most foreigners present there. Soldiers, journalists, and independent civilian workers have all been the victims of kidnappings by insurgent groups in Iraq. Some of the kidnapped make it back to their countries or...

Workers' Protest Spurs Arab Emirates to Act

September 25, 2005
More than half of Dubai's one million people are poor immigrants from South Asia and the Philippines. Eight hundred of those residents, dissatisfied workers who have not been paid in five months, recently marched on the emirate's Ministry of Labor. It was a rare show of labor unrest in a...

Britain Must Not Go Wobbly on the Free Market

February 10, 2009
When jobs are hard to come by, communities naturally try to support local businesses. Domestic workers demand job protection, without stopping to calculate how many might work for foreign firms. Any defensive posture comes at a grave cost, as foreign employers retaliate, abruptly halting efficient...

Singapore Calls for 30% Population Growth

February 4, 2013
Asia’s vibrant city state has a problem: Its citizens are not producing enough children to sustain the economy. The government’s response is traditional and paradoxical: More people spur a society’s economic growth and wealth, but more children for individuals can curtail careers and prosperity....

Central Banks' Action Hints At US Fears

December 2, 2011
The world’s largest central banks, led by the US Federal Reserve, have united to ease the flow of money and bank loans in the global system. The Wall Street Journal’s Geoffrey Smith compares the defensive measures tried in war, pointing out many analysts worry about what comes next and whether the...
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