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Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Schieber et al. |
Getting Real on Health Financing Unless the efficiency of the global aid architecture is improved and countries enhance their ability to put aid to good use, the massive investment in health that is currently taking place will not deliver the improvement in the health of the poor that everybody is striving for.   |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Ghosh & Ramakrishnan |
Do Current Account Deficits Matter? The current account balance may seem to be an abstruse economic concept. But in countries that are spending a lot more abroad than they are taking in, the current account is the point at which international economics collides with political reality. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Raghuram Rajan |
The Great Game Again? Countries seeking economic security by acquiring commodity producers risk violating good business sense. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Energy News Stories of 2006 Offshore drilling debate unresolved... Tensions in Latin America energy sector... etc. |
Geotimes
December 2006
Arthur Lerner-Lam |
Don't Prioritize: Mainstream Hazard Reduction Into Economic Development Aid A global effort to reduce natural hazard risks is a dream shared by many, but it cannot play out in a development policy vacuum. Making the explicit link between risk reduction and economic development turns a global effort into an international one. |
Smithsonian
December 2006
Eliza Griswold |
Waging Peace in the Philippines With innovative tactics, U.S. forces make headway in the "war on terror" in the Philippines. |
National Defense
December 2006
Shaheen & Geren |
Tightening Export Controls Require Industry Awareness U.S. export-control enforcement activities by the Departments of Commerce and State remain on the rise. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 6, 2006
Martha Lagace |
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI After the fall of apartheid, South Africa accepted the standard prescription for countries to receive more foreign direct investment. Yet FDI has been a mere trickle. Why? The answer may reside in the country's strong corporate environment. |
Geotimes
November 2006
Laura S. L. Kong |
Guarding Against Tsunamis: What Does It Mean To Be Ready? Despite the implementation of new tsunami warning systems, much work is ahead before the coastal communities of the world can be truly prepared. |
Chemistry World
October 30, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
Economist's Review Marks Turning Point Scientists have welcomed an economist's review into the costs of climate change, which warns of global recession if greenhouse gas emissions are not stabilized. |
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