BY LINDSAY IRVINE The cold war is over, but tempers are flaring across the globe. Citizens resent big government, failed government, and repressive government. They resent loopholes for the rich, handouts for the poor, lack of opportunity, and taxes all around. Global anger is on the rise. Susan Tolchin, a professor of public policy in [...]
BY SAMEEKSHA DESAI Microfinance, the provision of financial services to people who typically cannot access such services (for example, providing credit to the poor) creates and builds upon the potential to regenerate and reinvest initial funds. However promising its applications and benefits may be, implementing microfinance in Iraq’s post conflict context presents major challenges to [...]
BY LINDSEY POULIN Technology is regarded as the potential key to industrialization on the African continent. The introduction and proliferation of cellular telephony is having a significant impact on the continent’s drive to join the globalized world. According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), over the last half decade, Africa has been the fastest growing [...]
BY MARC GOPIN There has been so much talk in recent years about radical religion, but so little talk of its roots often in state-based political calculus. From Iran’s strategic interests in affecting the Middle East through terrorist clients like Hezbollah in Lebanon, to Pakistan’s years of support for the Taliban and violent extremists in [...]
BY TYLER COWEN When Hollywood penetrates global markets, to what extent is American culture being exported? Or is a new global culture being created, above and beyond its specifically American origins? There is no simple answer to this question. Critics of cultural imperialism make two separate and partially contradictory charges. Some are unhappy with the [...]
BY LINDA J. SELIGMANN The commonplace expression “nickel-and-dimed to death” has taken on new twists and nuances in the context of globalization processes. Barbara Ehrenreich donned the persona of a working poor woman in various parts of the United States to discern whether it would be possible for her to survive with the barest of [...]