Deutsche Bank Research details economic scenarios for Brazil in the next fifteen years.

An accurate estimate of carbon fluxes associated with tropical deforestation from the last two decades is needed to balance the global carbon budget. In this paper, the various challenges associated with accurately estimating carbon emissions from deforestation is reviewed.

IMD's World Competitiveness Center has released its 2006 scorecard. The United States ranks first in competitiveness, but Hong Kong and Singapore are closing the gap.

In the 2006 Economic Outlook for Africa, authors Lucia Wegner and Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte argue that African political stability has improved over the past decade. The diagnosis for 2004 and 2005 unveils the progress of more stable and open political systems in Africa.

Xavier Sala-i-Martin looks at the world distribution of income from 1970 to 2000. He finds that there were between 250 and 500 million fewer poor in 2000 than in 1970.

In the aftermath of Al Qaeda's September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, the United States and other international forces prioritized a plan to secure democracy in Afghanistan. After the fall of the ruling Taliban, Afghanistan has a freely elected president and parliament, a national army, and a foundation for economic development. However, a resurgent Taliban and a burgeoning production of opium threatens the momentum of progress towards a stable Afghanistan. Attacks have increased within the country, compromising plans for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. In order to execute a successful withdrawal of U.S. troops and sustain Afghan stability, economic growth and endurance is integral. If economic growth is jeopardized, a resurgent Taliban abates any U.S. counter-terrorist initiatives; at the same time, Afghanistan has the ability and the urgency to set a productive example in the Islamic world. The U.S. must reconfigure their role in the developmental stages of an auspicious Afghanistan.

One decade remains to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that the international community set out in 2000, but the world is still far from achieving them.

Beneath China's outward show of economic strength is an economic, social and environmental upheaval has turned the country into a caldron. For now at least, the Chinese regime is a greater threat to its own population, unmoored and angry, than it is to the United States or even its neighbors.

Despite all the nostalgia for the era when GM dominated the world's car industry, the heyday of American business may actually be now.

The U.S. economy has outperformed its peer group of large developed economies (Canada, the European Union, and Japan) on balance from 2001 to 2005 in terms of real GDP growth, investment, industrial production, employment, labor productivity, and price stability

This essay argues that there are strict limits on what outsiders can do to help poor countries—the internal development of functioning legal systems and states must take a leading role.

The World Bank released a report on what countries in the Middle East are planning to do with revenue streams, steming from the oil boom in the 1970's and 1980's: Oil producers are using revenue to pay down debt, build up substantial savings, and set up oil stabilization funds. However, the report notes that this windfall has not translated to some of the more resource-poor economies in the area, such as Lebanon and Morocco.

China's Economic Problems [And Ours]. David Dollar. The Milken Institute Review, 3d quarter 2005.

China has been a star in the development fi rmament for two decades, managing the largest reduction in poverty in human history and transforming the country into an economic power to be reckoned with. Even if growth slows somewhat – as one would expect when the easy ways to raise productivity are exhausted – it is likely to emerge in the next few decades as both the world’s largest economy and largest trading nation. But China’s transition to a mature economy supporting a high standard of living for its citizens is not a sure thing.

The report recommends actions needed to ensure that poor people in developing countries have access to existing and new products to diagnose, treat and prevent the diseases which affect them most.

An external report commissioned by the IMF in response to criticsm of its reporting on Argentina finds an influential 2004 IEO report had toned down criticisms of IMF staff and focused on the mistakes of Argentine authorities.

The Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy initiative (CSM&D) of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is launching an online portal to examine opportunity and exclusion in the global economy targeted to a broad audience of policymakers, academics, business leaders, civil society actors, and citizens in the United States and abroad.