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A New Global Balance

The address by James D. Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank Group, to the board of governs in Dubai. The event was part of the Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank. By James D. Wolfensohn... Read More...

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Greenspan warns on trade barriers

Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warns that erecting trade barriers to stanch the flow of jobs overseas would eventually damage the US economy, stifling the innovation and competitive spirit th... Read More...

Plunder and Profit

The IMF and World Bank continue to push privatization, in spite of its massive failures. By David Moberg. (In These Times, 3/4/2004) Read More...

Don't Cry for Cancun

Despite the dramatic collapse of the recent trade talks in Cancun, things aren't nearly as bad as they seem. By Jagdish N. Bhagwati. (Foreign Affairs, 1/1/2004, $) Read More...

Mexico at an Impasse

Three years into Mexico's democratic revolution, few of its hopes have been realized: the political system is gridlocked, the economy is stagnant, and relations with the United States are deterioratin... Read More...

The Reluctant Partner

Growing differences over trade and foreign policy threaten to upset the delicate balance in U.S.-Brazil relations. By Peter Hakim. (Foreign Affairs, 1/1/2004, $) Read More...

North America's Second Decade

In just ten years, NAFTA has created the world's most formidable free trade area. The United States, Mexico, and Canada have many common interests; they need to pursue them in common ways. By Robert A... Read More...

The Privatization of Foreign Aid: Reassessing National Largesse

Critics have long derided the U.S. government for stinginess in international giving. But such charges miss the point. Today, it is private funds that make the difference in poor countries, and here t... Read More...

China Takes Off

Although China's unprecedented economic success is understandably unnerving to it's neighbors and trading partners, it should not be cause for worry; China, the United States, and the rest of the worl... Read More...

Candidates' replay of NAFTA debate misleads wary voters

NAFTA-bashing overstates the pact's impact on U.S. job losses during the 2001 recession and also ignores the economic benefits to American workers provided by NAFTA and world trade generally. (USA Tod... Read More...

Thailand halts key privatisation

Plans by the Thai Government to privatise the country's electricity authority have been put on hold due to a week of mass protests by state workers. By Kylie Morris (BBC, 3/6/2004) Read More...

IMF cautiously optimistic on UK

The UK economy has "weathered the global slowdown well", and growth could hit 3.1% this year. However, the IMF also warned Britain to keep a careful eye on public finances. (BBC, 3/5/2004) Read More...

There's no realistic alternative to globalization

International growth abroad present opportunities for Canadians. The focus needs to be on successful globalization, not a narrow globalization captured and manipulated by neo-conservative ideologues. ... Read More...

Social Security, Is It A Crisis That Doesn't Exist?

Arguments that the social security crisis does not exist are based upon the unrealistic assumption that the economy will grow much faster than projected. By Andrew Biggs. (Cato, 10/5/2000) Read More...

What Social Security crisis?

Economic prosperity has eliminated the social security crisis yet politicians and advocacy groups continute to push for privatization. By Merrill Goozner. (4/5/2000) Read More...

Privatize program now

Private investment is the only way to save social security from financial crisis. By Michael Tanner. (USA Today, 2/27/04) Read More...

Most Argentines Back Their President, Not Debt

63% of the Argentines support President Nestor Kirchner's proposal to pay only a fraction of the nearly US$ 88 billion the country owes to international creditors, reports Jon Jeter (The Washington Po... Read More...

The New American Century

New Imperialism is already upon us. It's a remodeled, streamlined version of what we once knew. For the first time in history, a single empire with an arsenal of weapons that could obliterate the worl... Read More...

World Bank's Wolfensohn Criticizes Bilateral Trade Agreements

Bilateral trade agreements could impede multilateral trade agreements and hurt international trade. (Bloomberg, 2/23/2004) Read More...

Budget not Keynesian: Prof

Liberals in British Columbia bent on balancing the budget may be boxing themselves in politically and hurting the economy. (Quesnel, 2/22/2004) Read More...

Living wage laws gain momentum across US

Proponents argue that the benefits of living wage laws outweigh costs, and can increase productivity. (Christian Science Monitor, 3/15/2002) Read More...

The Things Labour Unions Are Up To

European labor unions are looking more and more like political organizations as interested in "changing society" as they are in negotiating good wages. By Anthony de Jasay. (Library of Economics and L... Read More...

Jobs Americans Won't Do

Bush has defended illegal immigration amnesty on the grouns that foreign workers are needed to perform work Americans refuse to do, but is this a valid point to make? By Mark Krikorian. (Center for Im... Read More...

What Tax Cut?

Tax cut, or tax shift? By Alexander Tabarrock. (United Press International, 5/22/2003) Read More...

EconPapers

EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the worlds largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software. Read More...

Where the Jobs Went

Alan Reynolds pokes holes in the idea that outourcing solely to blame for job losses in manufacturing and IT fields. By Alan Reynolds. (Cato Institute, 2/16/2004) Read More...

Ergonomics in the Workplace: Is It Time for an OSHA Standard?

Weighing the costs and benefits of ergonomic safety regulation. (Almanac of Policy Issues, 5/7/2002) Read More...

Outsourcing Good For U.S. and World Economies

Outsourcing not only cuts costs and benefits developing foreign economies, but it allows many high paid US workers to keep their jobs. By Bruce Bartlett. (National Center for Policy Analysis, 2/4/2004... Read More...

Sweat the Small Stuff

Why we should worry about fiscal irresponsibility regardless of how trivial some of it might seem. By Jacob Sullum. (Reason, 2/6/2004) Read More...

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