Recently added articles from Harvard International Review:
Guinea foul: challenging Camara's Coup.(AFRICA)
Sep 22, 2009; ... On September 26, 2009 over 20,000 people crowded the streets in Labe, Guinea to protest the visit of Moussa Dadis Camara, screaming "No to Khaki Power!" For Camara, who currently heads the West African nation's junta government, it was the first trip outside the capital of Conakry since he ...
A new Sino-centrality?(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 22, 2009; ... I read Nye's and Wang's article, "Hard Decisions for Soft Power: Opportunities and Difficulties for Chinese Soft Power" (Spring 2009), with great interest. The authors identify several major challenges and prospects for the United States and China in the coming years. I would, however, ...
Micromanagement: fixing microfinance in Argentina.(AMERICAS)(Company overview)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Despite Argentina's legacy of welfare payments to support the needy, 23.4 percent of the country's population remains below the poverty line. Microfinance, which provides credit solutions for the very poor, has the potential to improve the situation of the impoverished. Though the ...
Forgotten farmers.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Seventy percent of Africa's poor live in rural areas and work primarily in agriculture. Yet their productivity remains the lowest in the world, with farm labor productivity at one-half and land productivity only one-third of the levels attained in developing Asia. Paul Collier ...
Letter from the editors.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009; ... In 1951, a post-World War II United Nations bent on protecting human rights adopted the landmark Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. The document defined a refugee as an individual who, "owing to a well-founded fear of persecution ... is outside of his or her country of ...