Brazil didn?t win the World Cup, but it has achieved something that it has found much more elusive: it has…

The World Cup is not only a huge global sporting event, a source of elation and despair, of triumph and…

Chinese workers are unhappy. They have been acting to express their unhappiness. Strikes against car producer Honda have closed production…

Europe looks sick these days. Greece is in a deep crisis that blends fiscal insolvency with ferocious social discontent.

Can a Beijing Consensus replace the Washington Consensus? The notion of an alternative Chinese path has been around for…

Will the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education solve India?s huge education problem? The aspiration is admirable but…

?Traditional? cultural products?handwoven textiles, performing arts, handicrafts and so on?are often characterised as a…

Carlos Slim Hel?, the Mexican business magnate, weathered the global financial crisis pretty well. Early in March, Forbes reported….

What do Barack Obama?s struggles to undertake health reform and the position of para-teachers in rural Bihar have in….

The IMF has had a good crisis so far. It was nimble in action. The Pittsburgh meeting of the G-20…

Pratham?s Annual Status of Education Report for 2009 is both thrilling and sobering. It is thrilling because of the sheer…

The noughties were the best of times and the worst of times for capitalism. In the coming decade the performance…

Was Copenhagen a failure? The Copenhagen Accord has fine aspirations but no firm commitments, no clear plan and no governance…

It?s getting cold in Copenhagen. A few degrees hotter could improve things for the Danes.

The 26/11 attack on Mumbai had striking parallels with the 9/11 attack on New York: spectacular and horrifying assaults on…

Mining is a dangerous fruit. It is often extraordinarily abundant but can also have the capacity to damage, distort and…

Capitalism is evil. That?s the central message of Michael Moore?s latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, now showing in the…