In the stock market the smart money knows "if you're going to panic, panic early". The same is true for entrepreneurs when it comes to recognizing an idea that isn't working: Try to fail fast. Nothing is worse than throwing good money after bad.

If only the federal...

There is an intriguing dynamic developing in our nation's capital among the three major influences that could end up changing the future of American aid to developing countries.

One is Congresswoman Kay Granger from Ft. Worth, TX. Another is Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the

On May 24th, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs* will host a conference in Washington, D.C. to reinforce the relationship between food security in the developing world and the national security of the United States.

Talking about food security used to be a discussion for donors who contributed...

I keep running into extraordinary students -- of all ages -- from all over the world, and I think there should be a day set aside every year to honor them for making the effort to learn. In various places around the world students have a day set aside...

Last week, as Midnight Madness showcased college basketball players with visions of massive wealth and self-indulgence written all over their faces, 113 high school and college students gathered in Des Moines, Iowa to think about how they can change the world.

As western culture --...

The United States government took a bold step forward last week in addressing the horrifying upward spiral in the number of people throughout the world who go hungry, and, because they are hungry, they suffer from stunted growth, find it difficult to learn, spend every day of their lives just...

In December, 2003 a college dean from Auburn University * in Alabama sat in a small conference room at the World Food Programme on First Avenue in New York City across the street from the United Nations Secretariat Building. What she saw -- and...

There is no industrial sector more myopic, self-absorbed, conceited or lacking in aesthetic appreciation than Wall Street.

In Tom Wolfe's generation-capturing book The Bonfire of the Vanities these transactors of capital had the hubris to characterize themselves as "Masters of the Universe." It's a cultural identification that persists;...

The degradation visited upon women in the developing world has become commonplace enough to reel off the offenses with a degree of familiarity that runs the risk of us becoming desensitized to the horror of it all. Rape, sexual slavery, clitoral circumcision, domestic violence, exposure to HIV/AIDS by unfaithful husbands...

Two award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, have collaborated on a new book entitled Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. It is a page turner. Unless you simply don't give a damn, this is a must read, and it is a...

This is the first in a series of comments I will make about agricultural development in the developing world.

The buzz these days about sub-Saharan Africa is that it's becoming cool to care what happens there. Out of a hodgepodge of dictators, civil wars, droughts, and corruption, is...

I'm disgusted with everybody involved in the Stella D'Oro fiasco. No one gets a gold star (stella d'oro) unless it's for incompetence. The union negotiators gang planked the 136 workers in their care right into a watery grave. The private equity firm that owns the company allowed a semi-literate cabal...

The last thing I knew about Nestle was it tried hard to convince mothers in the developing world that its milk was better than their milk. When I received an invitation to a high level UN conference on nutrition jointly sponsored by Nestle, the Swiss Mission to the UN, and...