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Pakistani piggybanks, or <em>gallas</em>. CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/umairmohsin/121150243/">Umair Mohsin</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en-us">CC</a>).

OCT 10, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Moral Interest in Banking

Pakistan, whose constitution requires that all laws be brought in conformity with sharia, is transitioning to a completely interest-free economy. Islamic finance is booming in ...

USSR or USA? Poster from the <br>Washington-Baltimore commuter train. <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ford/18197735/">Jason Ford</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en-us">CC</a>).

OCT 5, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Spoofing Big Brother

Conceptual artist Hasan Elahi documents his every move online with hundreds of pictures. He photographs the toilets he uses, the food he eats, the places ...

American soldiers with Iraqi children

OCT 3, 2007 Article

Some Good News from Iraq: Sweet Sixteen

Not all the news from Iraq is bad. Three years ago, Soham lost both her legs in a terrorist attack. American soldiers fly her to ...

Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World

OCT 2, 2007 Article

Book Review: Charm Offensive

Kurlantzick sees a need for the U.S. to counter China's soft power, but avoids making any ethical judgment on its questionable elements, specifically China's ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pitikbulag/416167457/">Luis Liwanag</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en-us">CC</a>).

SEP 26, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Contraception Ban Harms Philippine Women

Evan O'Neil interviews Aya Fujimura-Fanselow of the Center for Reproductive Rights on the impact of a contraception ban in Manila.

SEP 24, 2007 Article

Innovations in Fighting Corruption

This is a rapporteur's summary from Global Policy Innovations' second Workshop for Ethics and Business. The speakers include representatives from AccountAbility, GE, Lockheed Martin, and ...

Matthew Slaughter

SEP 21, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Pushing against the Protectionist Drift

Policy Innovations talks with Professor Matthew Slaughter of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business about his New Deal for globalization.

SEP 20, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Website Redesign

Devin Stewart interviews Annabel Short of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre about the recent redesign of their website. The Centre tracks the positive and ...

Carpet vendor in Kabul, Afghanistan <br>(2005). Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/babasteve/25456049/">Steve Evans</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en-us">CC</a>).

SEP 18, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Post-Invasion Economies

Sustainable economic growth has been a major goal of reconstruction efforts in post-invasion Iraq and Afghanistan. Trade and investment will go a long way toward ...

Corn is the primary U.S. agrofuel crop. <br>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/o_caritas/514212557/">Patrick T. Power</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en-us">CC</a>).

SEP 14, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Agrofuels Favor Business over Farmers

In the absence of a greater scientific consensus and effective legislation to protect farmers, workers, consumers, the environment, and the food supply, full-steam-ahead plans for ...