China’s economic advance has been so fast over the past quarter of a century it’s like viewing U.S. economic development over a hundred years on fast forward. Take, for example, the southern

During an interview on NBC nightly news following an earlier meeting with the President, retired Army General Barry McCaffrey indicated that he told the President that more money for and focus on

Japan has been a xenophobic country for millennia. A growing life expectancy coupled with a declining birth rate, however, has forced Japan to look beyond its borders for workers. While it has

I have discussed corruption and development before and noted that corruption remains an anchor keeping underdeveloped nations from progressing. I believe that corruption is the first thing that must be addressed after

One of the reasons that America became great was that it attracted bright, energetic people from around the world. They often came here to get an education and then stayed to make

Working with Tom Barnett, whose books have a large and influential following in China, I’m aware that the Chinese like to censor literature coming from the West — even if they basically

In an earlier post about the global commute, I noted how important global workers are to the Philippine economy. Mary Jordan, writing in the New York Times, relates how cell phones are