'Restoring Hope: Reinvigorating the Millennium Development Goals' assesses how the world is doing in meeting the MDGs … China is taking to improve pensions and health care. People in Economics profiles Maria Ramos, the academic …

Prize or Penalty: When Sports Help Economies Score"" looks at why countries vie to host the world's most costly … others; how were shocks transmitted round the world, and whether protectionist pressures might intensify in 2010. As usual …

erratic, inconsistent, and domestically controversial course away from multilateralism. Other countries, meanwhile, for … various reasons are incapable of assuming that global leadership and the rest of the world likely would not support a new … with economic growth, a reduction in poverty, and the absence of destructive trade wars. It built a comity that encourages …

derivatives. Also in this issue, articles examine China's increasing economic engagement with Africa, and the outsourcing of …