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(Page 3 of 8: Analysis) Notice to our Guests: To return to the first page of this section, please follow this link. Editorial: Turkey's experiment -- Justice and Development (AK) Party aspires to create a Muslim-world analogue to the Christian Democratic parties of Europe, Washington Post, 5 Nov 2002 Q&A: Brazil's Luiz Inacio da Silva -- The man with the plan: In-vestors are wondering whether Lula's move to the center is sincere or just a tactic, Washington Post, 3 Nov 2002 Editorial: Trade in the Americas -- A hemispheric trade partner-ship would help spread prosperity southward, bolstering democ-racy, Washington Post, 1 Nov 2002 UK aid policy -- Short change: Britain hopes good govts will help rebuild African states. Dream on, The Economist, 31 Oct 2002 Boardroom: Consultant, heal thyself -- Will strategy firms look more like niche consultancies and think tanks in the future?, The Economist, 31 Oct 2002 The IMF is not the problem: It is caricatured as a demon of austerity, which appeals to the emotional need for stories with villains, by Kenneth Rogoff, Syndicated article, 30 Oct 2002 Editorial: Brazil's challenge--There is no reason why caring about poor people should involve abandoning sound economic policies, Washington Post, 30 Oct 2002 Editorial: Brazil's next president--He will walk a tightrope in seek-ing to satisfy pent-up demand for social spending at a time of aus-terity, New York Times (free - registration req'd) with Int'l Herald Tribune, 30 Oct 2008 State room: The man who may determine whether the US attacks Iraq -- Hans Blix, Business Week, 29 Oct-4 Nov 2002; and An unassuming Swede finds himself tapped to rule on war & peace in Iraq, Time, 31 Oct 2002 State room: Do they want something better? -- Yes, the Arab world may embrace democracy. They just don't want it from us, by Michael Elliott, Time, 29 Oct-4 Nov 2002 Horizons: Bush's economic policies -- The bull's-eyes and busts: The tax cut is a huge success, trade policy a flop. Now, deflation looms, by Robert Barro, BusinessWeek, 29 Oct-4 Nov 2002 Pacific summitry in an age of peril: It escaped the attention of no member of this trade forum that main 9/11 target was the World Trade Center, New York Times (free - registration req'd) with Int'l Herald Tribune, 28 Oct 2008 Newsroom: IHT - TWP = NYT -- For the past 35 years, 2 great US dailies have combined to produce one of the world's great newspapers, by Michael Getler, Washington Post, 27 Oct 2002; and New York Times to buy Washington Post's 50% share of IHT, International Herald Tribune, 23 Oct 2002 US outlines shift in criteria for providing development aid: The world's largest aid donor has the lowest ratio of aid to nat'l income of any rich nation, International Herald Tribune, 25 Oct 2002 Copyright law's duty to creativity: Yes, Virginia, your copyright has been extended (or who's afraid of creativity?), by John Kay, Financial Times, 24 Oct 2002 (Related link below: Oct 10th) The war against want -- Weapons of mass salvation: In this war, no less than in the war against terror, actions speak louder than words, by Jeffrey Sachs, The Economist, 24 Oct 2002; and Q&A: Jeffrey Sachs -- Why 'trade, not aid' isn't enough: Helping the world's poor countries meet even basic needs for their citizens must be done, despite the cost, Business Week, 10 Oct 2002 From 9/11 to 10/12--The loss of a safe place: After Bali, Australia understands US grief, by Thomas Keneally, New York Times with International Herald Tribune, 22 Oct 2002; and State room: Al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian footholds: If terrorists find new safe havens to regroup in SE Asia, they will resume their attacks on US assets, by Lee Kuan Yew, Forbes, 1 Apr 2002 Horizons: The high priest of investing in equities, Wharton School finance professor Siegel, says the P-Es are fine, Business Week, 22-28 Oct 2002 Horizons: Bush's econo crew -- Time to call for backup?: The president may have to rethink his economic brain trust, by Lee Walczak et al., Business Week, 22-28 Oct 2002 Horizons: For richer -- Is America becoming a society for the rich, by the rich?, by Paul Krugman, New York Times Magazine, 20 Oct 2002 (free - registration req'd) Newsroom: Post Web site wins 2 online awards, TechNews.com with WP, 20 Oct 2002 (includes a link to list of winners & final-ists named by Online News Assn & Columbia Grad Sch Journ) Horizons: For Japan, it's every which way but back -- It could go either way, crippling financial crisis or a fresh start, by Adam Posen, Washington Post, 20 Oct 2002 Challenging the growth gurus: Why is there no Brookings or American Enterprise Institute for the developing world?, New York Times (free - registration req'd) with Int'l Herald Tribune, 19 Oct 2002 (follow this link to the Initiative for policy dialogue); An open letter to the Editor, Le Monde: Setting the record straight on Stiglitiz, by Kenneth Rogoff, IMF Web site, 4 Oct 2002; and A reply to Joseph Stiglitz, by ex-IMF's Michel Camdessus, Nouvel Observateur, 12 Sep 2002 (Related links below: July 16 & 9) The fallout from Bali -- East Asia's economies: If the attack marks an escalation of terrorism in SE Asia, the impact on economies in the region could be severe, The Economist, 17 Oct 2002 Global fund to help poor nations fight disease opens way to gener-ic medicines, New York Times, 16 Oct 2002 (free - registration req'd) Unilateralism is self-defeating: If the US, in its handling of the Iraq problem, violates the UN Charter, bin Laden--dead or alive--will have won, by Ernesto Zedillo, Forbes, 15-28 Oct 2002 If Lula wins, free markets will survive in Brazil: The middle class believes he can govern without sacrificing the market-friendly policies of '90s, by Gary Becker, Business Week, 15-21 Oct 2002 About freedom in the free world: Hayek founded the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947 to combat the seemingly inexorable rise of social-ism, by Robert Bartley, Wall Street Journal, 14 Oct 2002 Latin American economic crisis: Testimony before the Senate Sub-committee on international trade and finance, by Michael Mussa, Institute for International Economics, 14 Oct 2002 (Related link below: Mar 25th) Mouse & wo/man: Rock star of the information age -- Lawrence Lessig wants less copyright protection, including for Disney's Mickey Mouse, The Economist, 10 Oct 2002 The Nobel Prize in Economics 2002 -- Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith, 9 Oct 2002: Kahneman (with the late Tversky) has integrated insights from psychology into econ, and Smith has laid the foundation for the field of experimental econ (includes links to more info from the Nobel e-Museum) (Related links below: Nobel on Jun 24 & 20) Coffee/tea break: Wine, wo/men & the tango--Don't cry for these Argentine wines, BusinessWeek, 8-14 Oct 2002 Editorial: Don't fight poverty with worn-out tools, BusinessWeek, 8-14 Oct 2002 Fighting global poverty -- A special report: Some aid programs have made remarkable gains, Business Week, 8-14 Oct 2002 (includes links to programs in educ, health, tech, credit & agric) Talking cadillacs to rickshaw riders: Drug firms fighting to keep generic medicines out of poor countries are let-them-eat-cakers, by Sebastian Mallaby, Washington Post, 7 Oct 2002 State room: Who elected the UN? -- Dictators and democracies don't have equal moral authority, by Robert Bartley, Wall Street Journal, 7 Oct 2002 For Afghan central bank, it's out with the old money and in with the new, New York Times (free - registration req'd) with Int'l Herald Tribune, 7 Oct 2002 Editorial: Defaming Islam -- Bush's silence is deafening on the religious bigotry and anti-Muslim demagoguery of his closest polit-ical allies on the religious right, Washington Post, 6 Oct 2002 Editorial: Double talk on democracy -- US agenda must not begin & end with Iraq; Turkey & Pakistan offer more fertile ground for reform, New York Times, 6 Oct 2002 (free - registration req'd) Brazil's election -- Running out of time: Brazilians go to the polls on Oct 6th. Will the outcome ease the country's growing financial crisis?, The Economist, 3 Oct 2002 Battling over the bankrupt: Politicians and bankers at the IMF/ World Bank meetings are at loggerheads over insolvent countries, The Economist, 3 Oct 2002 Third World debt: This hot potato just gets hotter -- As the debt burden rises, so do hurdles to forgiving it, Business Week, 1-7 Oct 2002; and Seminar room: Odious debt -- A new approach is warranted to prevent dictators from running up debts for personal or repressive ends, by M Kremer & S Jayachandran, Finance & Development, Jun 2002 (Related link below: NYT on Aug 20th) Can the WTO's new leader make it a force for change?, by Jeffrey Garten, Business Week, 1-7 Oct 2002 War room: America's most wanted--10-month bin Laden mystery: Dead or alive?, by John Burns, New York Times (free - registra-tion req'd) with Int'l Herald Tribune, 30 Sep 2002 Coffee/tea break: There will never be a last tango -- They say tangoing is just like walking. But what do they know, New York Times, 27 Sep 2002 (free - registration req'd) Singapore's paradox of freedom and order: Why is one of world's most successful politicians also one of the most litigious?, by David Ignatius, Washington Post with Int'l Herald Tribune, 27 Sep 2002; and A cable/online financial news service humbled: Let me see if I can write today's column without getting sued, by William Safire, New York Times (free registr. req'd), 29 Aug 2002 | via Singapore Win-dow [Related archive link: BW Sep 3rd] An institution that eases financial pain: The view that IMF goes around advocating uncalled-for austerity denies real policy trade-offs, by IMF's Kenneth Rogoff, Financial Times, 27 Sep 2002 The IMF--Doubts inside the barricade: A special report -- It is not just anti-globalization protesters who are wondering whether the IMF knows what it is doing, The Economist, 26 Sep 2002 (in-cludes a link to a briefing on IMF reform) 'Washington consensus' policies fraying: Skepticism abounds that its former practitioners have fine-tuned it so adroitly, Washington Post, 26 Sep 2002 (Related links below: Easterly on Aug 24th & Krugman on Aug 9th); and Seminar room: What should the WB think about the Washington Consensus? -- The man who coined the term in 1990 discusses its varying uses since, by John Williamson, WB Res Observer, Aug 2000 State room: Dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction -- The assessment of the British Government, 24 Sep 2002 (includes links to an exec summary, a pdf version and one in Arabic) Editorial: Imitation vs inspiration -- How poor countries can avoid the wrongs of intellectual property rights, The Economist, 12 Sep 2002 (includes a link to: Intellectual property and the poor) Seminar room: UK Commission report on Integrating intellectual property rights and development policy, 12 Sep 2002 (includes a link to an exec summary) Remembrance of the events of September 11 and after: The art of honoring the dead, by Maya Lin, Newsweek, 3-9 Sep 2002 (Related link above: Nov 12th) ; Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, has de-scribed some outstanding memorials in the above piece. These pic-tures have been chosen to go with her words: Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, Irish Hunger Memorial in New York, and Memorial to the Missing at the Somme in Thiepval, France ; She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was: Unveiling the face of war, Cover of National Geo-graphic 100 Best Pictures ; A life revealed: She�s had a hard life. So many here share her story (follow this link for a sights & sound special); and She had come to be a symbol of the dignity and resilience of her people, National Geographic News, 7 Mar 2003(updated) Boardroom: The note every CEO wants -- The coveted one with 'Sincerely, Warren', Fortune, 5-16 Sep 2002 Coffee/tea break: Wine, amigos/as & the tango--Argentina's grapes (of wrath), Fortune, 22 Aug-2 Sep 2002 Horizons: The copycat economy -- Once, a hot new idea spelled years of fat profits. But these days, rivals are moving into markets before you can say 'clone', Business Week, 13-26 Aug 2002 << Previous Next >> Copyright 2001-2007 Leonardo L. Sta.Romana All rights reserved. |