Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses concerns by Afghan entrepreneurs over the future of their economy as the United States draws down its troops and military presence from Afghanistan.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the need for the development community to adopt a comprehensive approach to skills training for entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict zones.

Jagdish Bhagwati laments the choice by delegates at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to offer platitudes instead of realistic solutions.

This was a meeting of the roundtable series, Opportunity and Exclusion in the Global Economy.

Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvin Panagariya say recent election results, favorable central bank policy, and the resiliency of previous reforms should give hope for India's economic future.

CFR Senior Fellow Isobel Coleman speaks with Boris Weber, director of ICT4Gov at the World Bank Institute, on how technology is being leveraged to promote good governance and increased transparency in fragile states and emerging markets.

This was a meeting of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Roundtable series.

In the face of persistently high unemployment, policymakers and workers look to innovation and entrepreneurship to create new jobs. This Backgrounder discusses how entrepreneurs create and finance the startups that power U.S. job growth, and the ramifications of policies such as the JOBS Act.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon and Ashley Harden state, "Business must be part of putting lives together after war. And economies."

Michael Spence surveys a variety of economic development models, highlighting the problems of long-term sustainability inherent to each.

This meeting was part of the Roundtable Series on Entrepreneurs and Market Linkages.

The G8 meeting at Camp David will focus on food security and advancing political transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, while the debate over solutions to the eurozone crisis will largely shift to the G20 forum, says CFR's Terra Lawson-Remer.

This was a meeting of the roundtable series, Opportunity and Exclusion in the Global Economy.

Though investment in entrepreneurs is not a silver bullet for development, economic growth and job creation stimulated by small and medium-sized enterprises can foster stability and help curb conflict in fragile states. Comprehensive programs that help SMEs increase their access to finance, markets, networks, and skills should be offered as part of a package of services to best leverage the efforts now under way to promote entrepreneurship.

Brazil's economy depends too much on high commodity prices, and as demand falls, so may Brazil.

Michael W. Hodin discusses how the demographic shift toward an older population will make current tax policies unsustainable in coming decades.

The White House, under George W. Bush, released this fact sheet on the Third Border Initiative on April 21, 2001.

Shari Berenbach, director of the Microenterprise Development Office at USAID, details how the agency promotes entrepreneurship in conflict and developing regions by empowering and encouraging women to manage their own small- and medium-sized businesses.

This meeting was part of the Roundtable Series on Entrepreneurs and Market Linkages.

Annie Lowrey interviews Jim Yong Kim in the New York Times on why he wants to run the World Bank, just ahead of his nomination for presidency of the institution.

Addressing Egypt's economically debilitating subsidy system will be hard amid political transition, but with the country's social contract under review, the time is ripe for reform needed to put the country on a more viable economic path, says CFR's Isobel Coleman.

Jagdish Bhagwati criticizes President Obama for nominating Jim Yong Kim to the World Bank presidency over candidates who would pursue pro-reform, pro-growth policies.