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全球化悄悄地减少了贫困

July 5, 2011
把每天收入不足1.25美元的人口比例减少一半，是在新纪元脱贫方面的重大成功，但这基本上没有引起人们的注意。贫困人口数量是由世界银行来估算的，但最新的数据只到2005年。布鲁金斯学会的研究员劳伦斯•钱迪（Laurence Chandy）和杰弗里•格茨（Geoffrey Gertz）把最近的国家调查数据中家庭消费水平和私人消费水平增长的最新数据结合起来，得出了当今的贫困人口数。他们的结论是，世界处于贫困快速减少的过程中，这甚至包括非洲撒哈拉沙漠以南地区。他们把这个成就归功于全球化带来的经济增长和全面发展。减少贫困是联合国千年发展目标的重要组成部分，如果该目标的另外两个组成部分——...

India’s Migrant Labor Pains

June 9, 2020
To contain the spread of Covid-19, India’s prime minister announced a lockdown for 1.3 billion people as of March 25 with four-hour notice. For millions in India’s cities and towns, jobs vanished overnight, along with access to shelter and food. “The pandemic exposed precarious living conditions...

The Saudi Connection: Wahhabism and Global Jihad

May 14, 2015
The United States and Saudi Arabia, once strong allies, disagree over how to handle multiple challenges in the Middle East. The royal family condemns terrorism to western diplomats, but promotes a fundamentalist ideology: “the Saudis have been the most persistent source of support for global jihad...

Global “Chop Shops”: Slice, Dice and Outsource

October 27, 2010
Manufacturing and IT firms slice their work into parts, much like the chop shops that collect old cars, breaking them down into parts for resale and higher profits. Mangers divide tasks, sending work to points of the globe where costs and skills are most efficient for each task at hand. Farok J....

Questioning Milton Friedman’s Free Market and Freedom

January 30, 2007
Not only democracies but dictators and authoritarian governments pursue the benefits of economic freedom. The recent passing of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and the Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman provokes economist Pranab Bardhan to reflect on the connections that these two...

Financial Times: The Real Price of Brexit Emerges

December 18, 2017
Brexit supporters had suggested that Britain, by leaving the European Union, would have more money to invest in health care. Most economists at the time suggested the opposite was true, and updated analysis confirms the bad news: Britain can expect an annual GDP loss between £20 billion and £180...

The Islamic State Wants the West to Over-React and Hasten Apocalypse

December 8, 2015
The Islamic State’s brutality has shifted targets – from expanding territorial control for a so-called caliphate in the Middle East to inspiring random attacks on soft targets in the West. The terrorist group emerged during Syria’s civil war, initially targeting Shia and other Muslims who resisted...

When Christian Power Was Arrayed Against a Judeo-Muslim Ideology

July 30, 2015
A narrative common in the West often pits Christianity and Judaism against Islam. It was not so in an earlier era. Christianity was a militant force during the 16th century. By 1550, Portugal ruled India’s best western ports, and India became a refuge for Iberian Jewish families, also known as New...
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