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Building the Markets We Need Today's globalized markets need rules that take into account the public good in every country and region of the world, writes former Austrian PM Alfred Gusenbauer. (Project Syndicate, 03/18/2009) Read More...

What the global cash crisis means for Africa Effects of the global financial crisis and the IMF's efforts at salvaging it within Africa. By Antoinette M. Sayeh (Sunday Monitor 03/01/2009) Read More...

ADB to Host Forum on Impact of Financial Crisis on Asia Global recession hit Asian countries as well. Asian Development Bank will host Forum to discuss the methods to recover from this situsion. Many countries' high officials come and discuss. (ADB, 03/07/... Read More...

Microfinance and the real economy: impacts and outcomes of the global economic crisis The current economic and social crisis provides an opportunity to re-think values and business models in finance. ILO Online spoke with Bernd Balkenhol, chief of the ILO’s Social Finance Programme. (I... Read More...

IFC, Private Sector Explore Ways to Create Opportunity for India’s Small Entrepreneurs Private sector leaders in India agreed at a discussion hosted by IFC that businesses tend to be most successful when they find ways to create opportunity for small entrepreneurs and make markets work ... Read More...

Number Of Unemployed Women To Soar Number of unemployed women to soar amid Economic Crisis, warns UN agency. (Scoop, 03/07/2009) Read More...

A double strike The number of inbound containers has doubled in the past three years; so far in 2009 there has been no decline. Such is the crush in Lagos that getting cargo from ship to port to lorry still takes an ... Read More...

IMF warns of slow African growth The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Africa's economic growth will be affected by the continuing world downturn. (BBC 03/09/2009) Read More...

The last days of the oligarchs? As the economic crisis deepens, Russian oligarchs are being stripped of the wealth and power they accumulated in post-Soviet years. By Andrew E. Kramer. (International Herald Tribune, 3/7/2009) Read More...

Fixing the Kingdom: Political Evolution and Socio-Economic Challenges in Bahrain Wright’s study outlines the challenges facing the Bahraini regime and the program of liberalization that the current Emir has pursued in response to these challenges and internal political turmoil. Ri... Read More...

The Financial Crisis and the Six Pillars of Russian Strength Rather than counting on a strong financial sector to ensure domestic strength and stability, Russia relies on six traditional pillars of power-- its geography, politics, social system, natural resour... Read More...

The Japan Fallacy: Today's U.S. Financial Crisis is not like Tokyo's "The financial crisis of 2008 need not usher in a replay of Japan's "lost decade" of the 1990s. The current crisis is the result of correctable policy mistakes rather than deep structural flaws in the... Read More...

The Global Collapse: a Non-orthodox View Week after week, we see the global economy contracting at a pace worse than predicted by the gloomiest analysts. We are now, it is clear, in no ordinary recession but are headed for a global depressi... Read More...

What The World Needs Now... Global Co-operation can turn the sharp and frightening decline in worldwide consumption spending into a global opportunity to invest more in the world's future wellbeing. By Jeffrey Sachs (The Guardia... Read More...

RIEAS The objective of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) is to promote the understanding of international affairs. Special attention is devoted to transatlantic relations, int... Read More...

The Chávez Administration at 10 Years This paper looks at some of the most important economic and social indicators during the 10 years of the Chávez administration in Venezuela. It also looks at the current situation and challenges. By M... Read More...

Rescuing Russia From Collapse Economists Sergei Guriev and Aleh Tsyvinski argue that, with the exception of a few mistakes, the Kremlin has thus far pursued reasonable and effective policies to prevent economic and political colla... Read More...

India Shows Resilience During Current Economic Downturn During this economic downturn, India is showing its potential. Asian Development Bank President visited India and told us the impression of India's strength. (ADB, 02/07, 2009) Read More...

Banking on Mobiles: Why, How, for Whom? For customers, mobile banking presents a delicate balance between a conceptually powerful opportunity and practical challenges. How is the potential of Mobile Banking? (CGAP, Jun, 2008) Read More...

Corruption And The Global Financial Crisis Daniel Kaufman, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and formerly the director of governance at the World Bank speaks about corruption and the limited success anti corruption commissions. (For... Read More...

ECONOMY-JAPAN: Meltdown Prompts ODA Boost To Asia Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso told the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss mountain resort of Davos on Saturday that Japan will provide 17 billion US dollars worth of aid to stimulate Asia’s ec... Read More...

Market-Based Solutions for Financing Philanthropy For small business development and economic development, the development agencies provided quite a lot of fund to the poor and NGOs or put it into the project. However, now in the time of the globaliz... Read More...

Microfinance and Enterprise Development (MED): Effective Tools to Eradicate Poverty? This report summarizes the key points raised in Microfinance and Enterprise Development (MED). These development supports can be the effective tool to alleviate poverty in developing countries? This i... Read More...

Refinding the Rainbow Author speaks with Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen and looks at the implications of the current global economic downturn for the country. By Atsuko Matsumoto (01/29/2009) Read More... 0 Comments |

Special Report: Challenges for the Next U.S. President IA-Forum presents a diverse collection of commentaries reflecting on the George W. Bush Administration's handling of key international challenges, and what the authors hope to see from the Barack Obam... Read More...

Student Paper: Is Microfinance the Key to Socioeconomic Empowerment? Using a case study of Bangladesh, author examines microfinance models and attempts to discover what, if any, link exists between the participation in such programs and the promised economic and social... Read More... 0 Comments |

From Doha to the Next Bretton Woods After the failure of the Doha Round of trade negotiations, as well as the ongoing global financial crisis, a new set of Bretton Woods-style talks are needed to encourage multilateral cooperation in th... Read More...

From the Cowboy to the Multicultural Summit Author looks at Bush, Obama and Latin America from a Peruvian perspective. By Alvaro Henzler (12/20/2008) Read More... 0 Comments |

The Warning Signs and the Lessons Gone Amiss Author analyzes the Asian financial crisis of 2007-8 and argues that historical experiences should have portended it. By David Anthony Hollingsworth. (10/10/2008) Read More... 0 Comments |

Experts See Security Risks in Downturn Intelligence officials note that trends such as regional instability may be accelerated by the current global economic crisis. A shift to a more Asia-centric globe could also gain momentum. On the hom... Read More...

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