Economic Development

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Essay, JUL/AUG 2009
Ethan B. Kapstein

Many economies in Africa have remained largely sheltered from the global financial crisis. To keep economic development there on track, the West must avoid protectionist impulses.

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Snapshot,
Anders Åslund

At first, Russia reacted to the global economic crash with denial. Then came a period of reform. What follows next will likely decide the battle between the country's liberals and hardliners.

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Response, May/June 2009
Robert Madsen; Richard Katz

Does the current financial crisis resemble Japan's "lost decade" of the 1990s? It may be even worse, argues Robert Madsen. Not so, replies Richard Katz.

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Postscript,
Rawi Abdelal and Adam Segal

The international financial crisis has thrown the forward march of globalization into question. If the United States and others can learn from the crisis and control borrowing, then the positive potential of global trade and finance may be restored.

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Snapshot,
Minxin Pei

The financial crisis is challenging Beijing's ability to hold up its end of the deal with the country's elite, leading to a potential threat to the continued rule of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Essay, Mar/Apr 2009
Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel

Democratic institutions tend to emerge only when certain social and cultural conditions exist. But economic development and modernization push those conditions in the right direction and make democracy increasingly likely.

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Essay, Sep/Oct 2008
Henry M. Paulson Jr.

The prosperity of the United States and China depends on helping China further integrate into the global economic system.

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Essay, Mar/Apr 2008
Robert Kuttner

Denmark has forged a social and economic model that couples the best of the free market with the best of the welfare state, transcending tradeoffs between dynamism and security, efficiency and equality. Other countries may not be able to simply copy the Danish model of social democracy, but it nonetheless offers important lessons for governments confronting the dilemmas of globalization.

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