Economics

The Parent Trap

Do two-parent families help children get ahead in life? The surprising answer: not everywhere.

BY W. BRADFORD WILCOX | JANUARY 15, 2013

Rising Sun

What if Japan actually gets its economic act together?

BY ROBERT DUJARRIC | JANUARY 14, 2013

Size Isn’t All That Matters

What's lost in all the talk about America's debt problem.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | JANUARY 14, 2013

Subsidizing Starvation

How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat on the farm and starving millions of Haitians.

BY MAURA R. O’CONNOR | JANUARY 11, 2013

Where Do Babies Come From?

The geopolitics of adoption after the Kremlin's bizarre ban.

BY FRANK JACOBS | JANUARY 11, 2013

Sorry, but Africa's Rise Is Real

Africa growth skeptics have got it wrong. The continent's rise is very real.

BY CHARLES ROBERTSON, MICHAEL MORAN | JANUARY 11, 2013

Daniel Ortega's Reality Check

Nicaragua’s president is the latest Latin American populist to flirt with the market. But his political risks are high.

BY ROBERT LOONEY | JANUARY 10, 2013

The Greek Depression

Think Greece's failing economy has been saved from the abyss? Think again.

BY JOHN SFAKIANAKIS | JANUARY 9, 2013

A New U.S. Grand Strategy

Why walkable communities, sustainable economics, and multilateral diplomacy are the future of American power.

BY PATRICK DOHERTY | JANUARY 9, 2013

Indonesia: Stop Chopping, Start Learning

Indonesia has been coasting on its natural wealth for too long. Now it's time to start investing in the country's people.

BY JONATHAN PINCUS | JANUARY 9, 2013

Don't Engage Kim Jong Un -- Bankrupt Him

It's time to play hardball with North Korea's new leader.

BY JOSHUA STANTON, SUNG-YOON LEE | JANUARY 9, 2013

Can India Defeat Poverty?

A bold new program may show the world the way.

BY AMANDA GLASSMAN, NANCY BIRDSALL | JANUARY 8, 2013

Reinventing China, Again

China made it big by saving money. Now it needs to spend it.

BY ROBYN MEREDITH | JANUARY 7, 2013

Poor Choice

The International Finance Corporation responds to Cheryl Strauss Einhorn's investigation into the World Bank's investment arm.

BY BRUCE MOATS | JANUARY 4, 2013

The Myth of Africa's Rise

Why the rumors of Africa's explosive growth have been greatly exaggerated. 

BY RICK ROWDEN | JANUARY 4, 2013

Gorging on Investment, Choking on Red Tape

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 | JANUARY 4, 2013

Unholy Alliances

Israel's election is bringing together some strange bedfellows.

BY NOAH EFRON | JANUARY 3, 2013

Four Surprises That Could Rock Asia in 2013

Are we paying attention to the wrong crises?

BY MICHAEL MAZZA | JANUARY 3, 2013

Is This Any Way to Treat Your Banker?

China recoils in horror at America's fiscal dysfunction.

BY SHEN DINGLI | JANUARY 2, 2013

Midnight in Havana

Will the Cuban government fall in 2013?

BY YOANI SÁNCHEZ | JANUARY 2, 2013

Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?

The story of how the World Bank's investment arm hands out billions in loans to wealthy tycoons and giant multinationals in some of the world's poorest places.

BY CHERYL STRAUSS EINHORN | JANUARY 2, 2013

Cursed With Plenty

America is on the verge of an energy boom. But will abundant shale gas create more problems than it fixes? 

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JANUARY 2, 2013

Geek Squad

How behavioral scientists could make Obama's second term a success.

BY RICHARD THALER | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Nudgy State

How five governments are using behavioral economics to encourage citizens to do the right thing.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 2, 2013

Getting Down to Business

The bad news is Washington hasn't seen the last of its bickering, dithering, and gridlock. The good news is Obama can change that in his first 100 days. 

BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Baby Menace

Are we too worried about falling fertility rates?

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 2, 2013

A New Law of Petropolitics

Sorry, Tom Friedman, higher oil prices don't always mean lower levels of democracy.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Law Still Stands

Why I stand by my arguments about oil and dictatorship.

BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | JANUARY 2, 2013

We're All Declinist Pundits These Days; Recession-Proof

FP's "Who Won the Great Recession?" package elicits reflections on U.S.-China power dynamics and how to succeed in business during hard times.

JANUARY 2, 2013

Currency War

Debating Robert Zoellick's vision for reintegrating economics into U.S. foreign policy. 

JANUARY 2, 2013