Articles & Reports

JUN 20, 2007 • Article

Poverty and insecurity have prevented generations of Afghans from becoming educated, thrusting children into the labor market. If education is the key to breaking out ...

JUN 14, 2007 • Article

Few development advocates perceive Robert Zoellick as a man committed to making trade fairer for the world's poor. But he has long tried to realign ...

JUN 11, 2007 • Article

Land reform projects are designed to empower the poorest elements of society, but often go awry when implemented for political purposes. The negative impacts on ...

JUN 7, 2007 • Article

There is a window of political opportunity in U.S. immigration policy: The House has passed a version of immigration reform and the Senate is ...

JUN 5, 2007 • Article

Interest in low-emission nuclear energy has mushroomed alongside rising energy prices and fear of climate change. But the picture of a green future is clouded ...

JUN 4, 2007 • Article

When will China publicly acknowledge what really happened on June 4, 1989? Just as in Taiwan, change in China must surely come from within. But the rest ...

MAY 31, 2007 • Article

The innovation gap is especially troubling in the pharmaceutical industry, where only a small portion of funding goes toward the diseases that disproportionately affect developing ...

MAY 9, 2007 • Article

Democracy's positive contributions to quality of life have caused some to elevate it to the status of a universal value. But universal value does not ...