Full-Spectrum Idiocy: GOP and Chavez on Iran
When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.
When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
This is a disaster-laden forecast, which essentially describes a developed global economy mired in staggering contraction.
Chad Dobson | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
Over the past five months, President Obama has made great strides in improving transparency within the USG. Mr. Zoellick and his team of experts over at the World Bank could stand to learn a thing or two from the U.S. Government.
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
It is time to look ahead instead of look behind. It is time to leave the fears of the baby boomers behind and embrace the developing world once and for all.
Rachel Cernansky | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
According to a Greenpeace report, Brazil's cattle sector "is the largest driver of deforestation in the world, responsible for one in every eight hectares destroyed globally."
Sunil Chacko | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
Leading lights of the aid movement -- Geldof, Bono, Sachs and Easterly -- continue to bicker with politicians and amongst themselves without taking a visible role in reform of the levers of assistance.
Dennis Whittle | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Microcredit is not a silver bullet for poverty alleviation. But Kiva has done an exceptional job in advancing the popular understanding of the role that credit can play in raising people out of poverty.
David Gartner | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Education, especially for girls and women, is the most highly leveraged investment now available for developing countries.
Chad Dobson | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
Various civil society groups reiterated the need for disclosure of deliberative World Bank documents, especially those relating to the Development Policy Loans.
Margee Ensign | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
It is a time to find common ground with our neighbors around the world and develop global solutions to a global crisis.
Chad Dobson | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
An improved disclosure policy requires a shift in thinking and a new business approach from the World Bank.
Monika Kalra Varma | Posted 05.20.2009 | World
International leaders gathered in Washington, DC this past week to pledge assistance to Haiti through the Haiti.Now, the rhetoric of partnership with Haiti needs to be actualized.
The Mainichi Daily News | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
Countries supporting Pakistan are set to pledge a total of about 4 billion dollars (about 400 billion yen) in aid to the country over the next two yea...
Murray Fromson | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
What is incomprehensible is that Summers may be an economic genius, but he seems to have the sensitivity of a 300 lb. gorilla.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
The contemporary idea of the "global economy" is based on a misapplied analogy to the historical development of national economies.
Huffington Post Contributors | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
By: Irene Khan - Secretary General, Amnesty International Dr Gerd Leipold - Executive Director, Greenpeace International Jeremy Hobbs - Executive Dir...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
The run-up to the G-20 meeting has been interesting and colorful. President Lula Da Silva of Brazil declared that "this crisis was caused by the irrat...
Jake Whitney | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
In addition to killing the aid program, Dambisa Moyo prescribes free-market policies such as delving into the capital markets and creative financing such as micro-finance.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
We have seen what happens when Capitalism runs amok and is not inclusive. The problem is not capitalism, it is greed and the lack of the human element.
The Guardian | David Gow | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
The European Union, IMF and World Bank today bailed out Romania with a €20bn (£18.5bn) loan in return for severe cuts in public spending and wages....
Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
The US Senate should pass the Bayh amendment again and ensure that it is not taken out yet again from the Appropriations bill of 2010 under discussion now.
Reuters | Posted 04.21.2009 | Business
The global economy is set to shrink by one to two percent this year, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Saturday, saying the depth of the sl...
AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business
BEIJING — The World Bank cut its forecast of China's 2009 growth from 7.5 percent to 6.5 percent on Wednesday due to plunging exports but expres...
Washington Post | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
At least 17 of the 20 major nations that vowed at a November summit to avoid protectionist steps that could spark a global trade war have violated tha...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...
Norman Solomon | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics