List of Economic Development articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ragged Edges
The U.S. slammed shut a border crossing to Mexico after 9/11, isolating and starving a village on the other side. The passage reopened in 2013, but stark divisions remain.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Curb Your Social Entrepreneurial Enthusiasm
Why the market for the global poor isn’t as big as you might think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Congo Finally Getting Its Act Together?
After decades of corruption and conflict, the Democratic Republic of Congo edges toward statehood.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Burma’s Senseless Census
Burma's census disregards the complex ethnic identities of its people. Could this breathe new life into sectarian conflict?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Too Much of a Good Thing
Did local democracy help or hinder post-2001 Afghanistan? An MIT study comes up with some surprising insights.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Israel’s ‘Demographic Time Bomb’ Is a Dud
Sorry, but the real number of Arab Israelis isn't an existential threat to the Jewish state.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ukraine’s False Choice
Yanukovych can pick Russia or the European Union. Either way, the economic reforms are coming.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Votes, Hopes, and Missing Faces
A postcard from Timbuktu.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Bad Bargain
Is the declining value of labor behind the dangerous rise in income inequality?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What’s an African Life Worth?
What crocodile-infested rivers and hovercrafts tell us about how people value their own safety.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Roadblock
If the West doesn't shape up, the rest of the world will just go around it.
