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CREDIT: Jacqueline Morris (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/" target=_blank>CC</a>).

FEB 12, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Creative Industries as Growth Engine

The cultural and creative industries are areas in which many developing countries enjoy some comparative advantage. The rise of the digital economy and the increasing ...

FEB 9, 2007 Article

The U.S. Must Redefine "Fair Trade"

For the U.S. to justify and prolong its international leadership, it must ensure that the rest of the world can access the benefits of ...

FEB 6, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Wiki Influence

This story reminds us that a community like Wikipedia's editors is vulnerable to manipulation by commercial interests—and that information is power.

CREDIT: Brian Harrington Spier (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC</a>).

FEB 5, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Beckhanomics

If you could peek inside their corporate playbooks, you would find that most sports franchises are searching for ways to globalize their brands.

Rush to Happy Hour, by Mo Riza (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" target=_blank>CC</a>).

FEB 2, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Rush, Rush, Rush

Directly or indirectly, saving more time means spending more money, and spending more money means more time making it. Yet, from devastating the U.S. ...

CREDIT: Johannes Ries, and NordNordWest (<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Europe_with_European_and_German_flag.png" target=_blank>CC</a>).

FEB 2, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Open Labor Markets Are Right Signal for Europe

Germany should not impose labor market restrictions on new EU members Bulgaria and Romania, argues Christian Drenth. Given its physical and economic centrality on the ...

USS Niagara (top) and HMS Agamemnon, the ships that <br>connected Newfoundland and Ireland with the first <br>trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.

JAN 31, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Send the SOS for Globalization?

Is globalization over, or just stuck in a gyre? From Russia to Venezuela, governments appear to be turning their backs on open markets, economic liberalization, ...

Aristotle. Public domain via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg">Wikipedia</a>

JAN 29, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: United States Must Redefine "Fair Trade"

Devin Stewart argues that it is in the enlightened self-interest of the United States, as the greatest beneficiary of globalization, to foster freedom and fairness ...

<a href="http://www.handcraftingjustice.org/index.php?lang=en&pt=ProductDetail&productID=924" target=_blank>Huichol wall art</a> by Candida Torres Carrillo.

JAN 23, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: A HandCrafting Justice Story

Thomas J. Hollywood recounts the story of how the women of La Florida, Peru, came to work with HandCrafting Justice, a fair-trade partnership that helps ...

JAN 19, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Gross Domestic Innovation

OECD countries will need to be ever more innovative in order to adapt to a growing global workforce that is increasing in technological savvy. Rao ...