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The Brain-Drain Panic Returns
Jagdish Bhagwati Series: The Open Economy and Its Enemies 2012-01-27While developed countries are angst-ridden over mostly illegal immigration by unskilled workers from developing countries, a different set of concerns has surfaced in Africa, in particular, over the legal outflow of skilled people to developed countries. But these concerns are misplaced.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 1877
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Responsibility While Protecting
Gareth Evans Series: History in Motion 2012-01-27
Ten months ago, the UN Security Council, with no dissent, authorized the use of “all necessary measures” to protect civilians at imminent risk of massacre in Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Libya. Now, however, the "responsibility to protect," applied for the first time in the subsequent NATO-led campaign, must be revised if it is to be used again.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 858
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A Crisis in Two Narratives
Raghuram Rajan Series: In Search of Dynamism 2012-01-27With the world’s industrial democracies in crisis, two competing narratives of its sources – and appropriate remedies – are emerging. For better or worse, the narrative that persuades these countries’ governments and publics will determine their future – and that of the global economy.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 1241
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Latin America’s Stymied Innovators
Andrés Velasco Series: The Rising Americas 2012-01-27
The main challenge facing Latin America is to transform its huge natural-resource wealth into the kind of wealth that does not run out, because it is constantly enlarged by human creativity. Indeed, if a diversified economy is the best predictor of future growth, Asia will grow much faster than Latin America for decades to come.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 789
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Peeling, Meeting, and Shopping
Esther Dyson Series: Net World 2012-01-26NEW YORK – In mid-December, while trying to understand what was happening in Russia, I checked Twitter and found a tweet that somehow signified everything. It was from a young woman, and it said, in Russian: “Gotta sleep! Tomorrow I go to [face] peeling, then to meeting, and then to shopping.” All three words – peeling, meeting, and shopping – were in fact the English words, rendered in Cyrillic.... read Comments: 2 Recommended: 0 Read: 2222
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Answering Iran
Richard N. Haass Series: The Statesmen's Debate 2012-01-26
Iran’s nuclear activities confront the world with difficult choices – acquiescence, military intervention, or ever-tighter economic sanctions. None is costless or risk-free, and neither the costs nor the risks are possible to calculate with precision.... read Comments: 3 Recommended: 0 Read: 3790
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Why Capital Flows Uphill
Keyu Jin Series: China World 2012-01-26One would expect fast growing, capital-scarce (and young) developing countries to be importing capital from the rest of world to finance consumption and investment. So, why are they sending capital to richer countries, instead?... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 4370
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China’s Connectivity Revolution
Stephen S. Roach Series: The Asia Portfolio 2012-01-26
Long the most fragmented nation on earth, a new connectivity is bringing China together as never before. Its Internet community is expanding at hyper speed, with profound implications for the Chinese economy, to say nothing of the country’s social norms and politics.... read Comments: 3 Recommended: 0 Read: 5329
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Demilitarizing Muslim Politics
Shahid Javed Burki Series: The World in Words 2012-01-25The paramount question in countries as disparate as Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey is whether Muslim governments can free themselves from their powerful militaries. To do so, they will have to overcome a tradition of governance dating from Islam’s founding in the seventh century.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 2 Read: 3928
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Taking Back Globalization
Olivier De Schutter Series: Frontiers of Growth 2012-01-25
At Davos this year, the world’s economic and political leaders stand warned: do globalization better, or it will be derailed by the growing legions of the discontented. That means finally going beyond trade deficits and debt ratios to pay attention to the wider imbalances generated by unfettered globalization.... read Comments: 4 Recommended: 0 Read: 6221
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The Eurozone’s Strategy of Pain
Jean Pisani-Ferry Series: Reuniting Europe 
2012-01-25For the third year in a row, the eurozone is the weakest link in the world economy, with concerns mounting about its very viability. But the eurozone is doubling down on austerity, reasoning that no pain in Southern Europe would mean no gain in reform and adjustment.... read Comments: 3 Recommended: 0 Read: 5461
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India’s Year of Living Stagnantly
Jaswant Singh Series: The New Power Game
2012-01-25
Last year, India's GDP growth decelerated, manufacturing plummeted, and corruption grew uncontrollably, while the government failed to enact even a single piece of legislation, much less undertake any economic reforms, control inflation, or address widespread civil disorder. Will 2012 prove to be a year of renewal for India, or another annus horribilis?... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 3727
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