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How Chile Successfully Transformed Its Economy

Posted on December 8, 2006
Previously filed under: South America, Global Economy
The former Chilean Minister of Finance speaks about Chile's exceptional economic performance in the last two decades.
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Keywords: privatization, liberal economics, Chile, reform, economic growth, GDP, capital, growth

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Why Globalization is in Trouble - Part II

Posted on September 25, 2006
Previously filed under: Africa, General Globalization
The politics of global resentment will find many followers in the fragmented and weak undeveloped world.
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Keywords: globalization, Inequality, Developing World, privatization, Washington Consensus

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World Water Day

Posted on July 7, 2006
Previously filed under: Africa, Environment
In a new study, NGO's argue that governmental water policies in Africa are hindering rather than helping the impoverished communities they are designed for.
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Keywords: Africa, water, poverty, privatization, governments

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An Appraisal of Privatization

Posted on January 11, 2006
Previously filed under: Book and Film Reviews
This book offers comprehensive country-specific studies on the effects of privatization on people—winners and losers in different income, employment, and education groups.
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Keywords: privatization, privatisation, state-owned, free market, open market

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As Growth Slows, India Awakens to Need for Foreign Investment

International Herald Tribune - Wed, 02/08/2012 - 08:26
India’s central bank and economic analysts predict that growth will fall sharply to 7 percent this fiscal year and remain sluggish.

Social responsibility and a new world order

Washington Post - Innovations - Tue, 02/07/2012 - 07:56
Just before the New Year, the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research announced that Brazil had overtaken the United Kingdom as the world’s sixth largest economy. Furthermore, it predicted that by 2020, India and Russia will also have overtaken all the European economic powers.

Aid for trade policy rears its ugly head

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 01:41
The UK government's dismay at not being granted the contract for Typhoon fighter jets in India is an indication that its controversial aid for trade policy is still very much alive.

Liberia's battle to put the lights back on

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 23:00
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has set ambitious targets to restore the country's electricity supply. But will it meet them by 2015?

As Africa's consumers rise, so does inequality

Yale Global Online - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:17
Kenya struggles to spread the wealth from rapid growth.
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