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JUN 25, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Asmita: Identity amid Crisis
Two young entrepreneurs launched a venture combining ethical finance and scientific crop management to boost yields and profitability for the suicide-prone farmers of India.
JUN 15, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Tired of Waiting for a 21st Century Trade Agreement
A leaked version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement reveals that the United States continues to buck a broad consensus in favor of allowing members to ...
JUN 15, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Rio+20: The Key Issues
Was the real action at the Rio+20 summit outside the negotiating hall, where civil society could share ideas horizontally?
JUN 8, 2012 • Article
Elections Without Change
According to opinion polls, the majority of Russians still favor Putin for president, despite the evidence that his latest incumbency is a serious setback for ...
JUN 6, 2012 • Journal Online Exclusive
“Responsibility to Protect” on Trial—or Assad?
The backlash against R2P in some quarters of the Western media continues. Now, with the situation in Syria worsening, critics have focused on the ...
JUN 4, 2012 • Article
Russia Bulletin (2012): Russia Bulletin, Issue 7
Putin is the man that many love to hate, and just three weeks into his new term, critics have heaped scorn on his ambitious economic ...
JUN 1, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Principle vs. Practicality: A Closer Look at the Ethics of Climate Change Adaptation Finance
Mixing the principles of causality, vulnerability, and ability to pay into the negotiations over climate change adaptation is unnecessarily complicated. There are moral and political ...
MAY 31, 2012 • Article
"Blood Ore" in Sierra Leone?
Considered one of the new frontiers in iron ore mining, Sierra Leone has gone from total state collapse in the mid-1990s to one of ...
MAY 29, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: City Development States: Why Lagos Works Better than Nigeria
With a national government plagued by corruption and poisoned by dependence on oil money, state- and city-led development may be the best way for Nigeria ...