to increase or decrease the shock's effect in the global economy and draw inferences about which policy approaches might …

, however, is that there seem to be certain 'threshold' levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …

world's 6.7 billion people is so overwhelming that it is a nonstarter. Furthermore, it can be argued that any meaningful … international elites like those who gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos. Finally, one can argue that civics assumes … effective enforcement and a state, and since we do not have a world government, any talk of global civics is whimsical …

fragile economies of some of the world's poorest countries, while claiming millions of innocent lives. They may also suck in … that have plunged into civil war abound. Sierra Leone was one of the world's poorest countries with a per capita GNI of … $130, making Zaire the second poorest country in the world. Today, the DRC remains violent in places and highly unstable …