Real change will only happen when a combination of bold measures is part of a comprehensive policy that addresses the crisis' multifaceted nature as was done with blood diamonds for Sierra Leone and Liberia...
Many people in poor countries die from cancers that are preventable or treatable in wealthier societies, but they often succumb to other scourges as well, such as infectious diseases. So what could and should be done about this conundrum...?
Abraham Sofaer, the George P. Shultz Distinguished Scholar and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, who served as legal adviser to the US Department of State from 1985 to 1990, discusses the lawsuit that ten members of the House of Representatives filed claiming that President Obama’s actions in Libya violate the War Powers Resolution.
Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, discusses the economic growth that led to enormous gaps in wealth and living standards between the industrialized West and the rest of the world. In his latest book, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World, Spence looks at how this pattern shifted after World War II and how that trend will reshape the world.
