The Need for Jobs in Iraq
No country can flourish if it has a toxic combination of high unemployment, rising inflation, and a large public payroll. Unfortunately, that is exactly the position in which southern Iraq finds itself
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No country can flourish if it has a toxic combination of high unemployment, rising inflation, and a large public payroll. Unfortunately, that is exactly the position in which southern Iraq finds itself
My colleague Tom Barnett has, on more than one occasion, noted that politics follows economics. Most often his remarks have been in response to questions about U.S. dealings with a communist Chinese
As the Beijing Olympics come to a close, Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson uses the moment to reflect on China’s long-range goals and how they might affect the world’s future [“The
Mass media has always protested that its influence is greatly exaggerated. Although relief workers assert that the “CNN effect” is real, by which they mean that the crisis that gets the most
We often think of globalization simply in terms of connecting local economies with the global economy. But like ripples in a pond, that connectivity also spreads internally to create new opportunities. In
As I noted in my last post [Influencing Russia], there is a risk (however remote) that the international economy could splinter into trading blocs which could cause this latest wave of globalization
I haven’t written anything about the conflict between Russia and Georgia because this blog is not a political or security blog, although I occasionally touch on those subjects. There are others better
No response to natural disasters is ever perfect. Some responses, like the one to Hurricane Katrina, are significantly flawed. John Holmes, the U.N. Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief coordinator,
Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson wrote a column a few months ago in which he identified global poverty as mankind’s greatest moral challenge [“Rx for Global Poverty,” 28 May 2008]. He
Globalization is all about the movement and flow of resources, capital, people, ideas and so forth. Rising fuel prices, however, are changing the routes some of those flows are following [“Shipping Costs
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