'Restoring Hope: Reinvigorating the Millennium Development Goals' assesses how the world is doing in meeting the MDGs …

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 …, we take on a number of hot topics, including housing prices, bankers' bonuses, Ponzi schemes, and inflation targeting. In …

various reasons are incapable of assuming that global leadership and the rest of the world likely would not support a new …

headline inflation levels might persist throughout 2008, even without further commodity price hikes. It urges policymakers to …