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Like nearly all people interested in development economics, I’m always fascinated by new ideas about why foreign development aid has been, in general, such a miserable failure.…
Two interconnected reasons have caused me to focus particularly on Syria in the past few days. The first is straightforward enough. I have been finalising a book put together on…
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A thinly-traded currency on the horn of Africa has been getting some attention in the past 100 days. The historically-weak Somali shilling has been fluctuating violently against…
Any lingering doubt about the extant relationship between sport, foreign policy and international relations should be removed by news that London Olympics security measures will…
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Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter’s talk in Parliament in London this week offered useful insights into how the Obama administration and foreign policy analysts around it are…
This week, the Department of Justice formalized its interest in Google from an antitrust perspective. This is a prosecution that, if it moves forward, could have global…
Many of today’s amazing things H.G. Wells imagined years earlier: electrical tools capable of reviving the unconscious, manned space travel to and from the moon, machines that…