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Will de Soto’s ideas work in Thailand?

November 17, 2002
In the age of almost instantaneous information exchange, ideas can travel around the world with only the click of a mouse. From South America to Southeast Asia, poor people around the world face similar problems. Now Thailand's Prime Minister is considering taking up an anti-poverty scheme...

In Iraq, They’re Revisiting Vietnam-Era Counterinsurgency

November 8, 2005
The insurgency in Iraq after the so-called ‘end of major combat operations’ has proved pretty intractable for US military planners. As David Ignatius writes, many of those strategists are looking back to counterinsurgency planning during the Vietnam War for ideas about how to “win the peace.” The...

Dare to Compare?

November 2, 2007
The nations of Europe offer a mixed bag when it comes to welcoming immigrants, according to a study from the British Council and the Migration Policy Group, a Brussels-based think tank, partially funded by the European Commission. The Migrant Integration Policy Index assesses countries based on...

Overheated Planet Seeking Solutions: Emissions Fix May Lie Beneath Us

October 16, 2007
Early in 2007, businessman and environmentalist Richard Branson offered a $25 million prize for developing a technology that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. An existing technology, however, promises to capture those emissions before they begin warming the planet. Carbon sequestration...

A Tahrir Square Moment in India

Sadanand Dhume
April 18, 2011

Gates Gives $200 Million to Aid Poor Nations

January 27, 2003
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is creating a new program to combat health problems in developing nations, including tuberculosis, malnutrition, and diarrhea. In an effort to divert funds from “rich-world” diseases and to invest in solutions to the problems that affect two-thirds of the...

New Globalization Battle Threatens Asia

April 26, 2006
The world today must confront a new economic policy conundrum: national governments doubting the benefits of cross-border mergers and acquisitions on the one hand, and the forces of economic globalization driving such partnerships on the other. The battle, already waged in Europe and the US, has...

China Shutters Nonprofit Newsletter

July 17, 2007
Chinese government officials recently ordered a stop to publication of “The China Development Brief.” This newsletter, read by many NGO representatives around the country, covers a range of human-rights topics, from AIDS to environmental issues. Founding editor, Nicholas Young, reports that his...
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