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Managing Globalization: How Fast China Grows Will Affect Everyone

March 8, 2007
Since the end of its civil war, China has achieved staggeringly high rates of growth. Except during crisis periods like the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, the Chinese economy has increased its size by between 8 and 10 percent a year. Today’s economists are divided over the question of...

China Tightens Control of Net

October 16, 2007
The ability of the Burmese junta to restrict access to the Internet has gained much attention, but censorship confounds millions more users throughout the world. China, with the second largest number of web users in the world, endorses a sophisticated array of misinformation techniques, including...

Iraq: Now What?

Richard Betts, John R. MacArthur, William Nordhaus, and Ernesto Zedillo
February 21, 2003

A Pair of Clean Hands Can Save Lives

May 4, 2011
Accustomed to great advances in medicine, staff and patients often overlook simple life-saving rules. Unclean hands are a major source of hospital infections around the globe. Studies in the US have shown compliance rates of less than 50 percent. The global health problem has an easy fix, reports...

Subsidies' Harvest of Misery

December 10, 2007
A US bill passed during the 1930s Great Depression – paying farmers for crops not grown – no longer makes sense. Instead, current US farm programs hurt the poorest people in the world and small farmers in the US, encouraging “excess production while channeling enormous government payments to the...

McCain's Gift to the Green Movement

May 14, 2008
With US presidential candidates in agreement on the need for action on climate change, debate has been limited on the topic, thus disappointing environmentalists. The Republican candidate, John McCain, has had to distance himself from the policies of a fellow Republican – President George Bush....

Europe Short on Cash as Bond Fears Deepen

November 23, 2011
Unlike politicians, global investors are strict taskmasters. Banks are warning that European governments can no longer take the capital markets for granted in financing public projects, writes Stefan Kaiser for Spiegel Online. His article describes Germany as a safe haven, but shortly after the...

Rise of a Deadly TB Reveals a Global System in Crisis

March 20, 2007
A new form of tuberculosis so resistant to antibiotics that doctors label it as “incurable” has emerged in South Africa – and could also be present in China, Russia and India. “The recipe for spreading the disease is the same throughout the world: inappropriate use of antibiotics,” writes...
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