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Has Neo-Liberalism Failed Mexico?
An advocate of free markets analyzes the effects of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and questions why neo-liberal policies have failed Mexico.Successful neo-liberal policies have not...
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AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals
Scholars from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and Ease International examine how the UN Millennium Development Goals affect AIDS globally.Many of these orphans have lost their parents to...
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Scandinavia's Accounting Trick
Scandinavia's low unemployment is largely attributed to government involvement in the economy.Scandinavia has managed to face the challenges of globalization and increasing competition from low-wage...
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War Costs Africa USD 18 Billion Annually
Africa's wars have destroyed resources that could have benefited the continent's people.Africa loses billions of dollars a year to conflict. Photo Credit: Stock.xchng.com A new study shows that...
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What a Slowing GDP Means for China's Workforce
Most countries would love their economies to grow by 8 percent a year in a recession. But for China, at least, its expected 8-percent GDP growth in 2009 might really sting.Yes, 8 percent is an...
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Algeria Changes Their Weekend
The Algerian government hopes to boost the country's economy by shifting the weekend from Thursday and Friday to Friday and Saturday. The change comes after 33 years of Thursday-Friday weekends....
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Global GDP
With all of the talk of the global economic downturn, you'd get the impression that all economies are wallowing. Yet, this interactive map from the Guardian shows that, while some economies are down,...
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Africa May Become First BRIC Continent
Though they are currently considered to be developing economies, the four BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India, and China — are expected to become economically dominant by the year 2050. Now, Jim...
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Oh, My! On Economic Growth, Africa's Lions Keep Pace with Asia's tigers
Since 2001, the budding economies of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have dominated global financial headlines. But looking back, it turns out some of the so-called “African...
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Rethinking Economics with Riane Eisler
Unlearn economics. Forget GDPs and growth rates. Ignore financial institutions (and their crises). Rethink well-being and worth. What do you care about? What in your life holds the greatest value?This...
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What is GDP? Short videos zoom in on a big statistic
Like any extremely successful idea, the world's most widely-cited statistic has drawn a lot of critics—starting with its creator and continuing to big thinkers of the moment.But nobody would dispute...
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Reinterpreting the Brain Drain
When educated professionals depart a developing nation, does greater wealth arrive? Some scholars in the international development community are saying farewell to the notion that the ‘brain drain’...
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Through good news and bad, poverty rates keep falling
The natural disasters, food price spikes, global economic crisis, and civil unrest of the past decade might seem to cast a shadow on the prospects for the world’s poor.Not so, if you look at the...
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What if the best way to measure wealth is ... health?
Health isn't just an optional side benefit of prosperity, one expert argues. It might be the ideal way to measure whether wealth creation is working.As battle lines are drawn over the United States'...
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Expensive poo: The World Bank tells us how much poor sanitation costs
Caution: This video shows graphic images of feces.Conceptualizing the magnitude of global development can be a difficult task, so the World Bank is breaking it down into something we all understand:...
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