MAR 12, 2010 • Article
Toyota and the End of Japan
Toyota's fall from grace caps a 20-year economic malaise that is infecting the popular culture, manifesting itself in a preference for staying home, avoiding risk.
MAR 12, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Basic Income Grants Alleviate Poverty in Namibia
Promising results from a pilot program in Namibia indicate that basic income grants may help poor regions jolt the poverty cycle with jobs and education.
MAR 12, 2010 • Article
Is Japan Giving Up?
Just as the success of Toyota Motor was a symbol of Japan's confidence on the world stage in the 1980s, the automobile company's recent troubles ...
MAR 1, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Public Procurement with a Conscience
Although efforts to adopt decent labor standards through free trade agreements are stymied on the international level, a network of activists are working to make ...
FEB 24, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Confronting Culture in Congo
It is high time the international community confront the elephant in the room when talking about Congo and violence against women worldwide -- culture.
FEB 22, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Future of Capitalism and Danger of Returning to Business as Usual
When it comes to making sense of international finance and economics, the era of so-called scientific certainties is over. To address the structural challenges the ...
FEB 20, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Evolution of Revolution
Revolution is hard work, and lethal. Social media has a communicative role to play in the sophisticated design of systems that will undermine human suffering ...
FEB 18, 2010 • Article
Good Neighbors? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The West has largely dismissed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as some kind of empty anti-U.S., anti-NATO rhetorical flourish, writes David Speedie. Yet in fact ...