The Day the World Bank (Sorta) Went on Strike

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World Bank headquarters - an unlikely site for "industrial action." Being in the service of world development and an American-led... Continue reading →

US Plan to Strangle China's World Bank Rival, Pt 2

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Today the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was born. This is a continuation of a previous post on the US wanting Chinese competi... Continue reading →

Modi's India: Japan or China as Business Muse

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Japanese, Chinese want the "Gujarat Model" replicated across India. The selection of Najendra Modi as India's prime minister i... Continue reading →

New World Order? BRICS "New Development Bank"

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We've heard all that before, unfortunately, BRICS. Grand plans to supplant the (American-designed) postwar global financial architecture... Continue reading →

Latin Victimhood: From Depedencia to Suarez the Biter

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Adidas takes the trophy for World Cup 2014's most horrendously prescient ad campaign . Last year, Luis Suarez hit the headlines when he... Continue reading →

Open Source Firefox vs iOS, Android in Emerging Mkts

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France's Alcatel is an also-ran handset maker seeking to capitalize on Mozilla OS. I got on the information superhighway in 1994. Back t... Continue reading →

How the World Cup Showcases Brazilian Inequality

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Just as you don't see fat or old people in Ricky Martin videos , something's missing here. Brazil has long been the unwilling keeper... Continue reading →

Happy 50th Birthday G-77! (Well, Sort Of)

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We kicked out S Korea after it joined the OECD rich country club, but its UN chief attended anyway.  Most of you are probably thinking, thos... Continue reading →

Chinese Themselves on the PRC: 'Why China Works'

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Replicating Pearl River Deltas all over the nation? Many Westerners have tried capturing China's secrets of success from the outside loo... Continue reading →

Screw Asian Dev't Bank: PRC's Asian Infra Invsmt Bank

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The PRC looks to storm ADB strongholds. What's a country to do with ( nearly ) $4 trillion in FX reserves? To paraphrase Captain Kirk, C... Continue reading →

White Man's e-Burden: Can Facebook & Google Save the World?

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Don't fret; the male and pale will sort out us backward colored people with tech. There is an outdated naivete behind the conceit that t... Continue reading →

Philippine Tax Authority TKOs Manny Pacquiao

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Why are tax authorities always hate figures? The Good Book portrayed them as untouchables, and tax collectors have had something of an image... Continue reading →

South-South Trade: LDCs Doin' It for Themselves

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Dependency theorists will have a more difficult time explaining how poor countries are increasingly trading with each other via South-South ... Continue reading →

USAID Told to Get Lost Pt. 3 (Ecuador Edition)

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I almost forgot to post about this one (apologies). Mostly on the grounds of political interference, the United States Agency for Internatio... Continue reading →

So Long, Asia: Africa is Now Fastest-Growing Continent

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At  midyear 2013, IMF bloggers declared Africa to be the second-fastest growing region in the world after (developing) Asia. Fast-forward a... Continue reading →

The Rise and Rise of FDI From the Global South

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Much has been made of the protectionism which firms such as those from China have encountered investing in the West. I have called specious ... Continue reading →