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MAY 23, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Successful Globalization Needed in Arab World

Over the next decade or so, the Arab world may experience population growth of 150 million people—the equivalent of adding two Egypts. Such rapid labor ...

MAY 18, 2007 Article

U.S. Should Not Waver on U.K. Visa Policy

In the interests of security, should the U.S. end the visa waiver for British Muslims? The cost is far too high, says Frank Spring, ...

Protest in Cairo. CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/zarwan/153534199/">E. Zarwan</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/" target=_blank>CC</a>).

MAY 9, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Realist Democracy Promotion

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 ...

Effective irrigation systems help boost crop quality and yield, lifting farmers out of poverty in rural Mexico.

MAY 7, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Hybrid Value Chains

Ashoka is forging ahead with sustainable enterprise through its Hybrid Value Chain program in rural Mexico. Farmers, citizen sector organizations, and corporations work together to ...

The Flag of Iran

MAY 3, 2007 Article

Revisiting Iran?

Is Iran's goal to achieve hegemony in the Persian Gulf and throughout the Middle East? Is that possibility sufficient cause for the U.S. to ...

Anti-corruption billboard in Nigeria. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/blyth/141520433/" target=_blank>Mike Blyth</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" target=_blank>CC</a>).

APR 30, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Fragile Democracy in Resource-rich Nigeria

Presidential elections were held in Nigeria in April amid electoral chaos and mild violence. For the first time since the nation's independence in 1960, power was ...

APR 26, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Estados Unidos Debe Redefinir el Comercio Justo

Devin Stewart establece un esquema que reconcilia la libertad y la justicia para crear una politica comercial mas etica. En el ejercicio de alcanzar el ...

May Day immigration rally. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/jvoves/138555331/" target=_blank>Joseph Voves</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" target=_blank>CC</a>).

APR 25, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Labor's Comparative Disadvantage

If you care about the hotly contested issues of trade and immigration, then you should know something about comparative advantage, the 200-year-old economic theory that ...

Trade negotiations met with protest. <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/23553050@N00/303489252/in/set-72157594387110179/">Chong Head</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC</a>).

APR 17, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Discord over KORUS

NAFTA's defects show room for improvement in trade negotiations. Has the United States struck a fairer deal with South Korea?

APR 13, 2007 Article

Fairness in Sovereign Debt

When can we say that a debt crisis has been resolved fairly? That is, what makes processes of debt restructuring, debt cancellation, or the enforcement ...