Carnegie's Nikolai Petrov and Masha Lipman, discuss the future of democracy in Russia.
Carnegie is transforming itself from a think tank on international issues to the first truly multinational, and ultimately global, think tank—an effort that entails expanding its presence beyond Washington, D.C., into other regional centers around the world.
Data from a World Bank report on water in the Middle East and North Africa, published on 11 March, shows that all countries in the region are facing a water crisis. This crisis requires more than technical solutions; such a key problem should be considered within the context of the political economy of reform in the Arab world, as well as regional and bilateral cooperation.
On March 28, 2007, the Carnegie Endowment hosted Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society, New York, and Foreign Editor of The Hindustan Times. His talk, entitled “India: The Decisive Decade,” was moderated by Visiting Scholar Frederic Grare.
In recent years African leaders have spoken out against corruption and injustice across the continent, in many cases with real effect. But when it comes to one of the region's most brutal dictatorships – Zimbabwe – this new Africa is nowhere to be found.
The Carnegie Endowment's Trade, Equity and Development Program co-hosted a seminar in New Delhi with the Government of India, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Oxfam International, National Council for Applied Economic Research and CUTS International. The purpose was to identify constraints to progress and map out the way forward.
The so-called Seven Sisters—the major western oil firms that divided up world oil after WWII—now control only a small proportion of international reserves. Rather, state monopolies and emerging partially privatized firms now control the lion’s share of world oil. The Baker institute’s study is the first to look at how national oil companies affect the development of the global oil market.
The unemployment problem is considered one of the most important challenges facing the Middle East and North Africa, where the rate of unemployment is the highest in the world. The time has come for the unemployment problem in the Arab World to become the focus of attention, both on the national and official levels.























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