China's growing influence on Africa and on Latin America has, to some extent, overshadowed the rise of another emerging market giant in the East: India. This other Asian emerging presence is also symbolic of the rapid redesigning of the global economic map. Europe, Japan and the United States...

The lessons from resource-rich Chile and Norway highlight important points for international development policy. Resource-rich countries need advice on how to build institutions to manage inflows. Learning from Norway, Chile and other resource-rich economies could make commodity-related...

While natural resource revenues ought to enable development, past experiences with the 'Paradox of Plenty' have shown that mineral and oil wealth often represents a curse rather than a blessing, inducing slower growth and higher levels of poverty. Many resource rich countries have high poverty...