Development

Russia’s Bridge to Nowhere

A facelift ahead of this year's Asia-Pacific summit can't mask the fact that Vladivostok, Russia's easternmost city, is slowly dying.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Burma's President Shakes Up the Chessboard

Why the president's cabinet reshuffle portends a new move toward reform.

BY LARRY JAGAN | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Lions on the Move

10 things you don't know about Africa's booming economy.

BY SUSAN LUND, AREND VAN WAMELEN | AUGUST 31, 2012

Weapons of Mass Urban Destruction

China's cities are making the same mistake America made on the path to superpower status.

BY PETER CALTHORPE | SEPT/OCT 2012

In Praise of Slums

Why millions of people choose to live in urban squalor.

BY CHARLES KENNY | SEPT/OCT 2012

Failed States Index

The troubling ambiguity of FP's rankings. Plus: Finland comes in last for once.

SEPT/OCT 2012

The Most Dynamic Cities of 2025

An exclusive look at the 75 powerhouses of the coming urban revolution, brought to you by FP in partnership with the McKinsey Global Institute.

SEPT/OCT 2012

The Reformer in Rabat

Is Morocco’s King Mohammed VI the savviest ruler in the Arab world?

BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 10, 2012

Fiasco in the Levant

Unless the United States gets serious now about its postwar planning, Syria could spin out of control.

BY JAMES DOBBINS | AUGUST 8, 2012

Our Man in Kigali

For years, Rwanda's budding dictator, Paul Kagame, has gotten away with murder, while winning praise (and billions of dollars) from the West. But is the blind support for this strongman finally drying up?

BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | AUGUST 3, 2012

Smokeless Stoves, Girl-Friendly Schools, and the Bloc That Wasn’t

Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.

BY PETER PASSELL | AUGUST 3, 2012

Uncultured

Mitt Romney don't know much about economic history.

BY DARON ACEMOGLU, JAMES A. ROBINSON | AUGUST 1, 2012

The Arabian Horse

Can Egypt's economy deliver on the revolutionary promise of a better future for all?

BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | JULY 31, 2012

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Public health activists and pharmaceutical companies are finally joining forces to help developing countries get access to low-cost drugs.

BY ROGER BATE | JULY 23, 2012

The Bully from Brazil

South America's superpower is shoving its weight around across the continent -- and the natives aren't exactly thrilled.

BY JEAN FRIEDMAN-RUDOVSKY | JULY 20, 2012

Hired Gun Fight

Obama's aid chief takes on the development-industrial complex.

BY JOHN NORRIS | JULY 18, 2012

Rebuilding the Police in Kosovo

In the wake of its war with the Serbs, Kosovo faced a yawning law enforcement gap. Here's how the international community helped an embyronic country rebuild its police.

BY MORGAN GREENE, JONATHAN FRIEDMAN, RICHARD BENNET | JULY 18, 2012

Give Mexico a Chance

It wouldn’t actually be that hard to restore Mexico’s economic fortunes -- if the new president is willing to show some backbone.

BY ROBERT LOONEY | JULY 16, 2012

Not Quite the Holy Grail

The changing global picture of foreign direct investment.

BY PETER PASSELL | JULY 13, 2012

Dereliction of Duty

A new U.N. report has highlighted Rwanda's responsibility for continuing conflict in the Congo. Washington's inaction is an outrage.

BY JEFFREY TAYLER | JULY 10, 2012

India Singhs the Blues

Why the country will pay the price for its wildly overrated prime minister.

BY SADANAND DHUME | JULY 9, 2012

Death in the Nuba Mountains

The brutal regime in Khartoum has a new weapon more deadly than bombs: hunger.

BY TREVOR SNAPP | JULY 9, 2012

Burma's Misled Righteous

How Burma’s pro-democracy movement betrayed its own ideals and rehabilitated the military

BY FRANCIS WADE | JULY 5, 2012

The Shots Heard Round the World

Why conservative economists are aghast at radical reforms by Argentina’s central bank.

BY RICK ROWDEN | JULY 3, 2012

A Hollow Victory

Yemen's new president claims to have driven al Qaeda from its strongholds. But Yemenis fear the militants will be back.

BY ADAM BARON | JULY 2, 2012

Mexico's Bright Light

Even as the country around it sinks into a morass of drug-fueled crime, Mexico City has remained surprisingly safe.

BY LARRY KAPLOW | JUNE 29, 2012

The Missing 50 Percent

There’s no real democracy without full representation for women.

BY SUSAN A. MARKHAM | JUNE 29, 2012

Bangkok Blues Rebuttal

The Royal Thai Embassy responds to Joshua Kurlantzick's piece on Thailand's controversial lèse-majesté law.

BY ARJAREE SRIRATANABAN AND JOSHUA KURLANTZICK | JUNE 28, 2012

Chile's Countercyclical Triumph

Though politicians love to talk about saving for a rainy day, not many have actually managed to pull it off. How Chile bucked the trend.

BY JEFFREY FRANKEL | JUNE 27, 2012

Sudan Needs a Revolution

The protest movement against Omar al-Bashir is growing -- fast -- and it needs the world’s support.

BY AMIR AHMAD NASR | JUNE 26, 2012