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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 ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.newseum.org/news/2007/12/110-years-ago-in-news-history---yes--virginia--there-is-a-santa-claus-.html">Newseum</a>.

JAN 18, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Yes, Virginia, there is a Corporate Social Responsibility

Riffing on the famous 1897 Sun editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," Frederick argues that the larger purpose of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) advocacy ...

Rooster

JAN 16, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Remember Bird Flu?

While the spread of the dreaded H5N1 virus across Southeast Asia garnered much press coverage in 2005, the topic seemed to slip off the radar ...

Dice

JAN 12, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Public Interest Demands Hedge Fund Rules

We regulate hedge funds as if they were so many child-operated lemonade stands, but in fact they are playing an economic role more like McDonald's.

JAN 11, 2007 Article

The UN at 60: Still Misunderstood

Carnegie Council Executive Editor John Tessitore explodes five common myths and misconceptions about the UN.

Three Gorges Dam. CREDIT: <a href="www.flickr.com/photos/pvcg/3412711352/" target="_blank"> Pedro Vásquez Colmenares</a>

JAN 10, 2007 Article

Ethics Be Dammed? China's Water Projects

While the World Bank has greatly reduced its loans for large dams,the Chinese are going full-speed ahead with a spate of dam projects, both ...

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JAN 9, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Food for the Hungry Story

Every year, nearly 11 million children die before they reach the age of five. Malnutrition underlies an estimated 60 percent of these deaths. However, local solutions, which ...