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'31-i^? rMat iitil,".`Altltr^ah;r44?4VS41-f O.F SE fE.RAL MIND'S s an editor at a magazine covering international affairs, I should be overjoyed that the coming U.S. presidential election is...

Measuring poverty (November 2003)

CARLOS LOZADA MEASURING POVERTY Harder than it looks On October 17, the United Nations observed the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan used the...

Regulating corporations (September 2003)

OF SEVERAL MINDS CARLOS LOZADA REGULATING CORPORATIONS Should the UN do it? On August 13, a little-known entity in the massive UN bureaucracy produced a seemingly innocuous draft document called...

Politics & free trade Economics & the war on terror (July 2003)

POLITICS & FREE TRADE CARLOS LOZADA Economic consequences of the war on terrorism This coming September, the trade ministers and commerce secretaries of more than one hundred nations will descend...

Globalization report card (April 2003)

GLOBALIZATION REPORT CARD CARLOS LOZADA Welcome honesty from the IMF Halk about good timing. On March 17, the same day that President George W. Bush issued his dramatic forty-eight-hour ultimatum...

Forget Latin America Why it can't get our attention (February 2003)

CARLOS LOZADA FORGET LATIH AMERICA It's barely on Washington's radar If Latin America is not entirely going to hell these days, it seems to be suffering a prolonged stay in purgatory. Political...

Not just a game (December 2002)

OF SEVERAL MINDS CARLOS LOZADA HOT JUST A GAME Soccer as the Argentines play it It's more than an hour before kickoff, but Augusta's Pizzeria in the heart of La Boca, a proud working-class...

Discontent & its globalization Economics: the science of disagreement (September 2002)

CARLOS LOZADA DISCONTENT & ITS GLOBALIZATION Stiglitz's less-than-Nobel theory Amazing what a Nobel Prize plus an axe to grind can do for your book sales. Columbia University economist Joseph...

Unlikely allies The O'xfam controversy (July 2002)

OF SEVERAL MINDS CARLOS LOZAPA UNLIKELY ALLIES Oxfam & globalization Kudos to Oxfam International. Last April, the England-based humanitarian and advocacy network issued a massive report on the...

Foreign aid Where the money goes (May 2002)

OF SEVERAL MINDS CARLOS LOZADA FOREIGN AID Who gets it & why Foreign aid is back. Long ostracized in economic development circles as a necessary evil or simply as a wasteful budget item,...

Masters of the universe Bono, Bill Gates & me (March 2002)

OF SEVERAL MINDS CARLOS LOZADA MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Inside the World Economic Forum Rosemary is a veiy nice witch, perhaps the nicest I've ever met. She smiled, took time to talk with me, and...

Does globalization work? Getting the facts (January 2002)

OF SEVERAL MINDS CARLOS LOZADA DOES GLOBALIZATION WORK? Someone should find out The World Trade Organization (WTO) may be a lot of things-undemocratic, beholden to rich nations, subservient to...

The Soul of Latin America (November 2001)

Does culture matter? Carlos Lozada Among the international-affairs chattering classes, culture is king. Last year, Harvard University luminary Samuel P. Huntington coedited a...

BOOKS (July 2001)

BOOKS Oracle at the Fed Carlos Lozada On the cover of their April 21 issue, the editors of The Economist featured a ripped, buff, Baywatchesque Alan Greenspan plunging through knee-deep...

Bumpy landing (June 2001)

THE LAST WOR BUNPY LANDING Carlos Lozada Viva el Peru! The cry issues forth the instant our plane touched ground, no coincidence. Even half asleep, I expected it. Sitting up, I tug on...

Peru's dilemma (November 2000)

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Debt relief (February 2000)

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