Commentary

Two weeks ago at the India-Africa Science and Technology Ministers conference in New Delhi, Science ministers from India and Africa agreed to foster scientific collaboration as a means to wrestle our common challenges such as water security and affordable health care.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – When sound economic advice is divorced from political reality, it probably will not be very useful advice. The history of multilateral financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank is littered with well-intentioned and technically feasible economic policy prescriptions that political leaders ignored.