Recent Articles
AUG 2, 2005 • Article
African States, Aggressive Multilateralism And The WTO Dispute Settlement System
What accounts for the underutilization of the WTO dispute settlement process by states in Africa? What structural factors currently inhibit the ability of states in ...
AUG 2, 2005 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Urgency of Building Alternative Development Strategies
The Caribbean, along with the rest of the developing world, needs space for experimentation and for learning from the shared experiences of development policymaking.
JUL 11, 2005 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Debt and Trade: Time to Make the Connections
Debt reduction, or even cancellation, cannot have lasting benefits unless structural features of developing-country trade are also addressed.
JUL 8, 2005 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Financing Equity: The Campaign for a Basic Income Grant
Some countries are working to establish basic income grants to help the poorest segments of their society survive. Basic income grants (BIGs) are a standardized ...
JUL 7, 2005 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Beyond the G8: From Debt Relief to Democracy and Development
Mountains of debt, in some cases accrued under past dictatorships, represent a stranglehold on many developing countries. These debts soak up a large percentage of ...
JUL 7, 2005 • Article
Is the G8 Dealing Justly with Debt?
The offer by the G8 to cancel the debts of some of the world's poorest countries is a welcome step forward. Yet, referring to it ...
MAY 31, 2005 • Article
SPECIAL REPORT: The Spread of Democracy
Not long ago democracy was seen as a luxury, a system feasible only under certain economic and cultural conditions. The explosion of democratic movements ...
APR 28, 2005 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Democratizing Globalization
Over 50 intellectual, political, and civil society leaders convened at Carnegie Council to debate the links between poverty, democracy, security and globalization. Participants explored the role ...
APR 22, 2005 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 12 (Spring 2005): Cultural Rights: Section 1: Rethinking Cultural Genocide Under International Law
Cultural genocide is a unique wrong that should be recognized independently and that rises to the level of meriting individual criminal responsibility. If the highest ...