Development
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
Build Burma from the Ground Up
Relying only on the state to implement democratic reforms in Burma is a fool’s errand. But there’s a better way.
BY ELLIOTT PRASSE-FREEMAN | JUNE 22, 2012
Debating the Failed States Index
Was this year's ranking of the world's most fragile states on target? Five countries respond.
JUNE 22, 2012
Her Work Isn’t Done
This week the world is celebrating Aung San Suu Kyi’s achievements as a pro-democracy activist. Now the question is: Can she finish the job?
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 20, 2012
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
May/June 2013
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