Articles & Reports

MAR 12, 2012 • Article

The incoming World Bank president should create a more sophisticated system for classifying countries as low or middle income, using broad development indicators.

MAR 9, 2012 • Article

The Kony 2012 documentary is over a decade too late, says Steven Costello. Promoting a "save the children" storyline (complete with a Joseph Kony awareness bracelet ...

MAR 9, 2012 • Article

What's the real deal on the elections? What of Kremlin attacks on election monitors and protestors? How will the United States and the West best ...

FEB 29, 2012 • Article

The idea that our self-interests are always bound in some way to the interests of others takes on a new dimension in the age of ...

FEB 24, 2012 • Article

An innovative NGO in Uganda has helped bring daily porridge to hungry schoolchildren, and it is now expanding with a 20-acre multipurpose farm and indigenous ...

FEB 22, 2012 • Article

What lies behind Russia's veto and its opposition to the U.S.-led hard line on Damascus? Whether or not we agree with them, Russia ...

FEB 15, 2012 • Article

The 2005 UN World Summit made a landmark commitment to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. Has North Korea violated ...

FEB 14, 2012 • Article

The now-official U.S.–Colombia Free Trade Agreement will dampen growth and make it harder for Colombia to put in place policies for innovation and ...

FEB 13, 2012 • Article

The outrage over Egypt's arrest of 43 NGO workers, at least 16 of whom are American, is understandable and well deserved. But it also speaks to a ...

FEB 8, 2012 • Article

Can the recent eruption of protests be interpreted as a single phenomenon, even though spread out across great distances and separated by barriers of language ...