List of Economic Development articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Astonishing Year for the War on Global Poverty
2015 ended with a flurry of groundbreaking summits that reinvigorated the fight to end poverty and halt climate change. In 2016, we must capitalize on these gains.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Africa’s Boom Is Over
Africa was never going to get far without manufacturing — and it can’t do so under today’s trade and investment treaties.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 There Are No Peasants Here
Honduras’ brave new economic experiment is buoying an era of development by kicking poor farmers off their land.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Are Africa’s New Missionaries Peddling?
2014 Global Thinker and visual artist Sam Hopkins joins FP contributor Michela Wrong to discuss the aid industry's skewed view of East Africa — and how artists can offer a better picture.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Chinese Finance Minister’s Advice to U.S. Fed: Keep Interest Rates at Zero
China wants the United States to keep interest rates near zero.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Angus Deaton Deserved the Nobel Prize in Economics
For development economists like me, Deaton was a revolutionary and a visionary.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Fragility Within
As the problems that once divided the world into First, Second, and Third are held more and more in common, is it time for the global development community to overhaul its approach?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Want to Fight Ebola? Help Liberia Invest in Toilets.
Preventing epidemics in the developing world starts with a focus on basic hygiene.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 24: Actress Deborah Mailman speaks during the UN Global Goals Flag Raising Ceremony on September 24, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. In support of the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development, Australia raises the flag representing Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. To support the ambition to 'Tell Everyone', 17 flags each representing the 17 goals will be raised at some of the most remote communities impacted by the Goals such as the Himalayas and most iconic places on earth, from the bottom of the ocean to the North Pole. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images for Global Goals) The SDGs Should Stand for Senseless, Dreamy, Garbled
Play sports! Be in harmony with nature! And end all preventable deaths! Only the U.N. could have come up with a document so worthless.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cards Against Humanitarians
How a satirical card game is skewering the international development industry — and raising uncomfortable critiques of the global development agenda.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who Foots the Bill for Ending Extreme Poverty?
The United Nations just unveiled an ambitious plan to help the world's poorest people. But paying for it will require more than just rich-country aid.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to End Extreme Poverty
If the world hopes to meet the lofty aspirations of the Sustainable Development Goals, it needs to find a better way to work together.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stopping Europe’s Refugee Crisis at the Source
To halt the flow of people fleeing war, poverty, and oppression, the international community needs to redouble aid efforts where they're needed most.
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Wine_TopImage Drinking Games
As former Soviet republics develop closer ties with the West, Russia is pulling out all the stops to keep them in the fold. Amid this battle, Moldova’s wine industry has become the unlikeliest front.
