Affordable Housing in Emerging Economies and The Case for Steel
By Akbar Imran Butt
July the 16th, 2019 commemorates the 50th Anniversary of NASA spacecraft Apollo 11’s moon landing. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, accompanied by Buzz...
Exaggerated Alarm and Destructive Excursions: Anti-Proliferation Policy and The Case of North Korea
By John Mueller
The consequences of nuclear proliferation have been substantially benign: those who have acquired the weapons have “used” them simply to stoke their...
An Open Letter to Researchers Studying the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
I am not a medical doctor, nor specialist in epidemiology, but I consider myself very experienced and conversant with methodologies of scientific research. While...
African Lions in the Making
By Nicolas Depetris Chauvin
Growth without structural transformation has proved to be unsustainable. Africa needs to diversify their economies if they want to become authentic...
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Gig Economy Differently in the United States and...
In ways big and small, we have all felt the impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy. We have lost loved ones, we have...
Philippine Water Crisis in International Perspective
By Dan Steinbock
By international comparison, the Philippines should not necessarily suffer from major water crises. So why has Metro Manila turned into a Cape...
From Hyper-Finance to Secular Stagnation & Mass Unemployment
By Michel-Henry Bouchet and Robert Isaak
In this article, the authors advocate policies to counter the decoupling of finance from the real economy of productive...
Paris Climate Summit: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Steve Breyman
In the aftermath of the December 2015 Paris climate summit, it’s worth reviewing the final agreement. The text serves as a Rorschach...
Prospects of a Multipolar World and the Role of Emerging Economies
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
When we look at economic data on trade and output growth, there seems to be an economic shift gradually taking...
Tourism and the Modern World
By Eric G. E. Zuelow
Tourism is among the largest industries in the world and many people assume that humans engaged in leisure travel from...