Education
Girl Power and the Fragility Trap
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 20, 2012
Doctors Without Borders
Letting medical professionals and other skilled workers from the developing world emigrate is a good deal for everyone.
BY CHARLES KENNY | OCTOBER 11, 2011
Left Behind
Americans created the knowledge economy. So why can't they keep up with it anymore?
BY MISHAAL AL GERGAWI | NOVEMBER 2011
Hot Teachers
The revolution may have left Tahrir Square, but Egypt's education system is boiling with anger.
BY SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS | SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
Green Shoots in the Killing Fields
Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo believe there's hope for their war-torn country even if no one else does -- and their optimism is starting to get results.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 20, 2011
The Big Test
Does China's nerve-racking gaokao college-entrance exam really identify the country's best and brightest, or is it even sillier and more unfair than the SAT?
BY CHRISTINA LARSON | JUNE 10, 2011
No Need for Speed
Save your money, United Nations -- the developing world doesn't need broadband Internet to get ahead.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY 16, 2011
Is Our Kids Getting Dumber?
Actually, the U.S. really should care about its schoolchildren's international competitiveness.
MAY/JUNE 2011
Failing Grades
The real schools of Afghanistan and Pakistan look nothing like the fantasy peddled by Greg Mortenson.
APRIL 19, 2011
Three Cups of BS
Greg Mortenson's school-building plan was never a good idea.
BY ALANNA SHAIKH | APRIL 19, 2011
Cup Half-Empty
Why we all wanted to believe what Greg Mortenson was selling.
BY MOSHARRAF ZAIDI | APRIL 19, 2011
Help Tunisia First
In neglecting Tunisia, the Obama administration is missing a historic opportunity to lay the groundwork for the first real democracy in the Arab world.
BY J. SCOTT CARPENTER | FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Solitary Man
An FP slide show of Hamid Karzai's tumultuous nine years as president of Afghanistan.
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
Think Again: Education
Relax, America. Chinese math whizzes and Indian engineers aren't stealing your kids' future.
BY BEN WILDAVSKY | MARCH/APRIL 2011
Egypt's Cauldron of Revolt
It was striking workers that first inspired the Egyptian uprising. And they're still at it.
BY ANAND GOPAL | FEBRUARY 16, 2011
Welcome to Juba U.
Southern Sudan's premiere university, relocated to the north during years of civil war, is finally back. Is it up to the task of training a new country's next leaders?
BY PIOTR ZALEWSKI | FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Don't Forget Gaza
Amid the political turmoil engulfing the Arab world, there's one overlooked problem spot that could easily explode again.
BY SALMAN SHAIKH | JANUARY 24, 2011
Weird Science
Most of what we know about how the world thinks comes from research on a handful of American undergrads.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
Watch out, Silicon Valley: China and India aren't just graduating bad engineers and stealing intellectual property anymore. They're fostering innovations that will shake the world.
BY VIVEK WADHWA | DECEMBER 28, 2010
New U.N. Report Reveals a Smarter, Healthier -- Yet More Unequal -- World
On the 20th anniversary of the world's most in-depth country ranking, the U.N. Human Development Index finds that global progress is largely on track. But those left behind are more numerous than ever.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | NOVEMBER 4, 2010
The World's Worst Textbooks
As students around the world head back to school, many of the lessons they're learning are not only false -- they're dangerous.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
The War Over Germany's Imams
Sent by Turkey as a check on Western influence as well as Islamist radicalism, Germany's holy men are at the heart of the battle over the future of Islam in Europe.
BY PAUL HOCKENOS | JULY 2, 2010
Countries Without Doctors?
How Obamacare could spark the brain drain of physicians from the developing world.
BY KATE TULENKO | JUNE 11, 2010
Russia's New Privatization
The country's universities are moribund and behind the times. Can Moscow's entrepreneurs and philanthropists build something better?
BY JULIA IOFFE | JUNE 4, 2010
Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan…
Record stores, Mad Men furniture, and pencil skirts -- when Kabul had rock 'n' roll, not rockets.
BY MOHAMMAD QAYOUMI | MAY 27, 2010
Will There Be an Indian Harvard?
Some in India are hoping that inviting in foreign universities will solve the country's higher education crisis. It'll take a miracle.
BY SUDIP MAZUMDAR | MAY 13, 2010
$123,000,000,000,000*
*China’s estimated economy by the year 2040. Be warned.
BY ROBERT FOGEL | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010
Losing Cairo?
Since Barack Obama's speech six months ago, the Muslim world has begun to lose hope in the United States. But it's not too late ... yet.
BY ANDREW ALBERTSON | DECEMBER 24, 2009
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
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