Category: Globalization

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Green Development

There has been an empirical argument around for years that developing countries are little concerned with the environment until they reach a certain level of per capita GDP (somewhere, as I recall,

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Turkey Invests in Kurdish Region

In many of my posts about the security situation along the Turkey/Iraq border, I’ve noted that the solution is more economic than diplomatic and more diplomatic than military. Both the central Iraqi

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Conflict Resolution in Africa

Two New York Times columnists, Roger Cohen and Nicholas Kristof, recently wrote about two situations in Africa that appear to have very different stories unfolding. Cohen wrote about Kofi Annan’s apparent success

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Work versus Welfare

Debates about how best to bring people out of poverty are endless. Some people, like Steven Pearlstein, believe that wealth should be redistributed through taxation [see my post Looking for a Globalization

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Looking for a Globalization Strategy

In two recent posts, I have focused on how economists and politicians are revisiting past thinking about free trade and globalization [see The Return of Protectionism? and Negative Views of Free Trade].

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Negative Views of Free Trade

It is no secret that free trade and globalization have their critics — just listen to the presidential debates between Clinton and Obama. Among other critics of free trade is Ha-Joon Chang,

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Tailoring Products to Emerging Markets

Recently the Economist published an article about Unilever, the world’s second largest consumer goods company, and how it nearly lost its considerable advantage in emerging markets [“The Legacy that got left on

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