Spotlight: Burma

Reuters/Eduard Berga Luque - A man looks at a fallen tree that lies beside a decorative archway near the airport in Myanmar.
Lex Rieffel, May 07, 2008
With more than a million people killed, missing, or uprooted by the cyclone that struck Myanmar/Burma on May 3, international aid groups and foreign governments are mobilizing food, water and other assistance for the country. Lex Rieffel, who is currently studying the Asian perspective on Myanmar/Burma, addresses some of the key policy challenges.
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Foreign Aid, Global Food Crisis, Southeast Asia, Global Economics, Global Poverty
Foreign Aid and the World Food Crisis

Reuters/Muhammad Hamed - US embassy staff hang a banner on a truck loaded with humanitarian aid in Amman.
Noam Unger, May 02, 2008
President Bush recently called on Congress to increase U.S. food aid and development programs by $770 million. In a recent op-ed, Noam Unger, senior manager of Brookings’ Foreign Aid Reform Project, discusses how U.S. assistance programs should be strengthened in order to improve the effectiveness of America’s aid during the global food crisis and beyond.
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Foreign Assistance Reform, Foreign Aid, Global Food Crisis, Global Governance, Development
Global Economics

Reuters/Kevin Lamarque - U.S. President George W. Bush delivers the final State of the Union address in Washington.
Colin I. Bradford, May 02, 2008
Missing from the recent IMF-World Bank ministerial meetings was an understanding that policy development needs to be an interactive process, one that includes financial officials and law makers. Colin Bradford advises the world's legislators must be brought into the conversation about global development in order for these discussions to evolve into successful action.
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Global Governance, International Monetary Fund, Financial Services, World Bank, Global Economics