I had an opportunity to attend a presentation by Minxin Pei on his new book China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy. Minxin Pei refutes three popular "myths" associated...
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The Russian government, concerned with high inflation which it partly links to the rising prices of goods and services provided by Russia's natural resource companies, is calling on the Russian...
What do you do if neither the Constitution nor the ballot box can resolve a dispute? Citizens in Thailand have decided to turn to the king and ask him for help. And...
Across Latin America, a growing number of people say the privatization of public services, a movement that swept the region in the 1980s and 1990s, has failed. Protests have erupted...
Noam Chomsky responds to a question about feasibility of Latin American countries developing an alternative to the Washington Consensus and provides his view of globalization. The term "globalization," like most...
On Sunday, the "last dictator" in Europe was reelected with an astounding 83% of the vote. It came as no surprise to anyone that Alyaksandr Lukashenka won, or that he...
Do post-conflict countries which concentrate on retribution and vengeance have worse growth prospects than post-conflict countries which concentrate on forgiveness and acceptance? “Yes!” according to Pete Boettke and Chris Coyne of...
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) announced yesterday in a press release that a Social Protection Plan will be unveiled on March 22, 2006...
Indigenous groups in Ecuador are standing firm against the proposed free trade agreement with the United States. Indians in Ecuador fear that the free trade agreement, when signed, will threaten their culture...
