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By Joseph E. Stiglitz It has now been almost five years since the bursting of the housing bubble, and four years since the onset of

By Nick Turse One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand

Once hailed as a solution to poverty, microfinance lenders are criticised for profiting from exploitative usury. The recent ouster of the Nobel Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Iceland’s president, Olafur Grimsson, irritated EU officials last month when he said his country was recovering faster because it had refused to