The Fight Against Terrorism is not military. In the long term it is also - perhaps even primarily - economic. How do we create economic and social conditions in third-world countries that will preven
Cultural Writing. Political Science. Hernando de Soto and Francis Cheneval have edited a collection of ground-breaking cases as part of the Swiss Human Rights Book series which deal with property righ
A distinguished Third World economist takes a close-up look at why capitalism succeeds in some countries and fails in others, arguing that the key to its success is related to the legal structure of p
The study shows that the three Egyptian cities have been able to accumulate fixed informal housing assets worth the equivalent of the government's budget for five years to come. Unleashing the potenti
Disasters are not natural. Natural events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. become disasters because of the fragile relations that exist between the natural, human and built environments.
