Daily Policy Digest
International Issues
| IMF ON CLIMATE CHANGE: WE WANT TO PLAY There are prudent ways to help developing countries protect against natural disasters but more foreign aid isn't one of them, say observers... |
| A TALE OF TWO QUAKES Chile has benefited enormously in recent decades from the free-market reforms it passed in the 1970s, say observers... |
| AMERICA ON THE RISE Complaints of China's ascent and the United States' collapse are overly pessimistic -- and misguided, says Joel Kotkin, a distinguished presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University... |
| SOVEREIGN DEBT: GREECE AND CALIFORNIA California will likely have less leverage with its federal government than Greece has with the European Community, says Bob McTeer, a former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas... |
| SINGLE EUROPEAN CURRENCY: SINGLE EUROPEAN DISASTER The reason why a single currency works for America is precisely the reason why it won't work for Europe, say observers... |
| SOCIALISM KILLS: THE COST OF DELAYED ECONOMIC REFORM IN INDIA India's socialist era, which claimed it would deliver growth with social justice, delivered neither, says researcher Swaminathan Aiyar... |
| GIVERS AND MISERS The United States is either the top donor or among the largest to most of the multilateral operations now focused on Haiti, says columnist Claudia Rosett... |
| ENGLISH CRAZE HIGHLIGHTS CHINESE AMBITIONS China may already have more English speakers than India, according to the British Council... |
| CZECHS LEGALIZE CANNABIS The Czech government has decriminalized the cultivation and possession of Cannabis by individuals... |
| ISRAEL'S LIVELY START-UP CULTURE KEEPS ECONOMY THRIVING With fewer people than the state of New Jersey, Israel has more companies on the tech-oriented NASDAQ than any country outside the United States -- more than all of Europe, Japan, Korea, India and China combined, say authors Dan Senor and Saul Singer... |
