A recent New York Times article on microcredit in India may have missed the whole point. Their headline implies massive defaults in the microcredit industry, yet in the first paragraph they state, “borrowers in one of India’s largest states have stopped repaying their loans, egged on by politicians.” If borrowers …
Missing in news reports on the recent release of the United Nations 2010 Human Development Report is any mention of a significant addition to the report. For the first time, the HDR includes the Multidimensional Poverty Index, which measures poverty based on components other than income and GDP. The Index …
The Heritage Foundation recently published an in-depth study of the Iranian nuclear threat and what the United States should do the “Day After” Iran goes nuclear. Iran currently has the “largest ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East,” and they have the capability of reaching US bases, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, …
