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Modi’s Success in India’s Elections: Five Factors

July 23, 2019
India as an emerging economy struggles with constrained growth and rising unemployment. Yet India’s voters handed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party a decisive victory. Gilles Verniers, assistant professor of Political Science and co-director of the Trivedi Centre for...

Multinational Corporations: A Key to Global Poverty Reduction – Part II

January 5, 2006
To combat a growing image problem, multinational corporations must capitalize on their enormous potential for reducing poverty. MNCs can and do change the very conditions that create poverty, yet lack presence in the world’s poorest countries. More recently, NGO leaders and development...

Global Currency Accord Is Necessary, But Unlikely

April 2, 2020
Global efforts are required to slow the spread of COVID-19’s economic fallout, and this is especially true for currency stabilization, argues author Will Hickey. He urges major powers to convene on slowing the US dollar’s rapid rise and curtailing protectionist urges. “Nothing would assuage world...

Multinational Corporations: A Key to Global Poverty Reduction – Part I

January 2, 2006
The legitimacy of multinational corporations has been increasingly questioned in recent years. In this two-part series, Harvard professor George C. Lodge and International Finance Corporation economist Craig Wilson argue that multinational corporations (MNCs) have contributed enormously to...

Growing Inequality Dulls India’s Sheen

December 21, 2017
India has enjoyed spectacular growth since 1990, but the nation’s wealth is concentrated and not trickling down to most people. “The surging economic growth has improved living conditions of its citizens, but these improvements were not uniformly distributed among India’s diverse population,”...

Easing One-Child Policy May Be Too Late

January 7, 2014
A Chinese policy that generally limited families to one child has been revised: Couples can have two children if either spouse is an only child. But China may discover that increasing family size is tougher than reduction, warns demographer Joseph Chamie. “This mid-course correction in population...

Growing Anti-US Sentiments Roil Alliance With South Korea

June 8, 2004
Although South Korea’s legislature just approved the deployment of 3000 troops to Iraq, South Koreans’ anger about US military actions has reached a boiling point, argues Sook-Jong Lee, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. South Koreans have become increasingly critical of the US since...

Iran Nuclear Deal Fuels Tension With Saudi Arabia Inflaming New Conflicts

January 19, 2016
Iran has moved swiftly in implementing terms of an international nuclear deal, and the nation's rising stock in the international community has alarmed rival Saudi Arabia. “As the economy falters, the Saudi regime seems to take aggressive stances in the foreign-policy arena in order to...
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