http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/frontiers_of_growth <p><em>Have Russia and China proved that authoritarianism and capitalism can go hand-in-hand? Can legality be imported? Are some countries fated to race ahead while others lag? Does culture shape economics? Is unrestricted foreign investment a help or a hindrance to countries seeking to escape from poverty?</em></p> en 2012-02-10T05:55:30+01:00 webmaster@project-syndicate.org webmaster@project-syndicate.org 1994-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 4 hourly http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/deschutter4/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/deschutter4/English>GROWTH: Taking Back Globalization</a> 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. Olivier De Schutter 2012-01-25T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mohieldin2/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mohieldin2/English>GROWTH: Islamic Finance Unbound</a> While uncertainty roils global markets and many investors are in full retreat, Islamic financial assets are growing exponentially. Though it needs to address several regulatory issues, Islamic finance has the potential to promote greater stability throughout the Muslim world. Mahmoud Mohieldin 2012-01-06T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bardhan3/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bardhan3/English>GROWTH: More Unequal than Others</a> In India and the US, many forms of social inequality have declined in recent years, but economic inequality has been on the rise. If both countries wish to thrive as democracies, they must find a way to make the rich feel that it is in their best interests to improve conditions for the poor. Pranab Bardhan 2011-12-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sundaram9/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sundaram9/English>GROWTH: Development Cooperation under Siege</a> Globalization has helped to integrate developing countries into the world economy, but now that very integration is becoming a threat in the wake of the financial crisis. With the increasing likelihood of protracted stagnation in most rich countries, the prospects for development look poor. Jomo Kwame Sundaram 2011-11-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mford1/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mford1/English>GROWTH: To the Jobless Economy</a> Nearly all economic forecasts agree that high unemployment in much of the developed world will most likely persist for years to come. But, given improvements in computers, robotic technologies, and other forms of job automation, even this dire projection underestimate future unemployment rates. Martin Ford 2011-11-07T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mohieldin1/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mohieldin1/English>GROWTH: The Education Solution</a> The global challenges that we face today are proof that we need a world of problem solvers – people who are productive, resilient, creative, and versatile enough with technology and culture to find solutions to the many challenges we face. Education helps to build that world. Mahmoud Mohieldin 2011-11-03T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/khanna3/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/khanna3/English>GROWTH: The Microfinance Catalyst</a> When both governments and markets fail, impact investors can stimulate change. Microfinance – its advent, rise, and recent crises – shows how. Tarun Khanna, Jayant Sinha 2011-10-04T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/soros71/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/soros71/English>GROWTH: Thinking the Unthinkable in Europe</a> To resolve a crisis in which the impossible has become possible, it is necessary to think the unthinkable. So, to resolve Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis, it is now imperative to prepare for the possibility of default and defection from the eurozone by Greece, Portugal, and perhaps Ireland. George Soros 2011-09-15T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/taleb1/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/taleb1/English>GROWTH: The Great Bank Robbery</a> For the US economy – and other developed economies – the elephant in the room is the amount paid to bankers over the last five years. Investors, and the rest of us, would be better off if these funds flowed to productive companies, perhaps with an amount equivalent to what would be transferred to bonuses directed to well-managed charities. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Mark Spitznagel 2011-09-02T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/dbloom4/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/dbloom4/English>GROWTH: The Challenging Billions</a> While the human race took perhaps one million years to reach one billion people (around the year 1800), we have been adding successive billions every 10-20 years since 1960. Will we be able to meet the population challenge, just as we have met previous challenges, through technological and institutional innovation? David Bloom 2011-08-17T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/aslund26/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/aslund26/English>GROWTH: The Wobbly West</a> Western democracies have prided themselves on institutional checks and balances, but obviously these mechanisms did not work during the crisis or the preceding boom. So, when Chinese and Russians officials attack democracy as such, old questions about democracy’s efficacy and stability are raised anew. Anders Åslund 2011-08-03T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/canuto3/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/canuto3/English>GROWTH: Navigating the Road to Riches</a> The “middle-income trap” has snared many developing countries: they succeeded in evolving from low per capita income levels, but then appeared to stall, losing momentum along the route toward the higher income levels of advanced economies. Does moving up the income ladder get harder the higher one climbs? Otaviano Canuto 2011-07-12T00:00:00+02:00