Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business
Millions of people work, live, and travel in high-risk countries; very few are kidnapped and, of those that are, almost all come home safely – how can this be? Anja …
Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business Read MorePublished by Promoting Economic Pluralism
Millions of people work, live, and travel in high-risk countries; very few are kidnapped and, of those that are, almost all come home safely – how can this be? Anja …
Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business Read MoreNew Delhi’s “rubbish mountain” just keeps growing and growing. The Taj Mahal, the famous 240-foot-high tomb, is India’s best known landmark. But now a different sort of tomb, New Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill …
India’s Taj Mahal of trash is a toxic nightmare Read MoreThe growing push for using securitisation markets for development finance is fraught with multiple dangers ahead. Rick Rowden sounds a warning. The international development finance club has been increasingly experimenting with various types …
A sense of insecurity Read MoreCosta Rica: a mirage of sustainability? A focus on sustainable development has shown some success in Costa Rica but its credibility is undermined by persistent economic inequality and widespread environmental …
Sustainable development in Costa Rica: how real is it? Read MoreWestern European gross domestic product per capita was about twenty times larger in 2003 than it was in 1700. Geoff Hodgson questions whether greater security in property rights really did …
Property Rights and Economic Development Read MoreHow handing out titles to the poor can make the rich richer. By Howard Stein, Ann Arbor, Faustin Maganga, Rie Odgaard and Kelly Askew. There was a time when …
Land reform and dispossession in Africa Read MoreAfricans are insisting on actual economic development which is leaving European trade negotiators exasperated. Rick Rowden explains why their stand is historic and right. In one of the most under-reported …
The most remarkable rejection of free trade you’ve never heard of Read More