Urbanomics

Over the past year or so, the micro-finance movement has been the subject of intense scrutiny , faced with charges of fraud and exploitation...

China and Europe stand at the two ends of the spectrum on manufacturing labor costs, and it reflects in their respective economic situations...

Let me illustrate what it means to mistake a solvency crisis for liquidity crisis, using the parable of Bubbleland. Bubbleland has been expe...

Paul Mason (via Paul Krugman ) has an excellent graphic that captures one of the fundamental problem facing many peripheral economies of E...

How do we lower the temperature of scalding-hot coffee to the perfectly drinkable temperature and keep it there while you sip along? Buy Jou...

It has come faster than expected. I had blogged just yesterday about the inevitability of the revision in fertilizer subsidies for 2011-12 ...

So finally, after months of speculation, and faced with spiralling borrowing costs, Portugal bows to pressure and follows Greece and Ireland...