BY ERIN A. COX AND ARUN K. SOOD
Who will foot the premium bill for your unexpected knee surgery? Who will pay the astronomical emergency room bill from the car accident that occurred while you were without health care? These are very realistic problems in American society today. Health care costs are at an all time [...]
BY ARNAUD KURZE
After over half a century of modern foreign aid practices, a vast literature has addressed the question of aid effectiveness1, particularly with regards to the questionable and perturbing record of poverty alleviation in least developed countries. Since the 1990s, however, post-Soviet countries and the war-torn Balkan region have also appeared on the donors’ [...]
BY TONY SAMARA
In 2010 Cape Town, South Africa will host a number of soccer matches for the World Cup, including one of the semi-final matches. That same year New Delhi, India, will host the Commonwealth Games, and Shanghai, China the World Expo. Different as they are, all three cities confront an urban population marked by [...]
BY NICOLE DARNALL
Imagine shopping for house paint. Your local hardware store stocks half a dozen brands that meet your criteria for price and quality. You notice on one can that there is an environmental label. It looks similar to a common nutritional label seen on most food products. The environmental label provides information about the resources and [...]
BY JEFFREY W. MANTZ
Nobody likes to hear about blood diamonds, that something venerated as our culture’s highest token of commitment and affection comes to us haunted by specters of oppression, cruelty and murder. It took a 2006 film with Leonardo DiCaprio playing the role of a diamond-embezzling South African mercenary and a $100 million production [...]
BY ERIC MCGLINCHEY
The local impact of global climate change is suddenly acutely present in Central Asia. A coincidence of extended drought in Central Asia and Australia and the transfer of food crops to ethanol production have resulted in a dramatic spike in commodity prices throughout Eurasia. Importantly, Central Asia is not alone in confronting the [...]
BY SADA AKSARTOVA
Throughout the 1990s, the most ambitious American efforts to promote market and democracy were directed at Russia and other post-Soviet states. The enormity—physical and symbolic—of the Soviet Union, the rapidity of its collapse and the sheer scale of the economic and political transformation in its successor states presented Western policy makers with a [...]
BY SANDRA I. CHELDELIN AND SUSAN F. HIRSCH
In 2004, in collaboration with a local NGO in Dushanbe, our faculty at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution launched a multiyear project to increase conflict resolution capacities of local actors in Tajikistan. We worked with government, religious and academic leaders, created a conflict resolution resource center [...]
BY NAYANTARA SHEORAN
Advertising has traditionally been the machinery that has affected change in the thinking of people. Advertising in post-liberal India took on the task of creating consumers. This article originates from a conference presentation where a semiotic analysis was employed to examine the visuals in some Indian advertising campaigns, which aimed to affect a [...]
BY BHAVANI ARABANDI
India’s current growth rate of 8 percent has been attributed to the successful implementation of economic liberalization policies in 1991 that opened the economy to global corporations seeking to do business in India. These policies encouraged the formation of partnerships between domestic firms and global corporations, as well as the entry of Indian [...]