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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
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 ...
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 ...
JUN 14, 2005 • Podcast
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
After a recent visit to Iraq, Larry Diamond reflects sadly on how we have allowed the situation "to slip into a state of severe insecurity, ...
JUN 8, 2005 • Podcast
Globalization: What's New?
William Easterly, Joseph Stiglitz, and Michael Weinstein discuss the main features of globalization, asking what is new, what drives the process, how it changes politics, ...