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Africa's New Engine
Calestous Juma
Africa looks to its middle-class consumers to drive prosperity
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Middle class in Kenya
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Building an African Infrastructure
Paul CollierRail networks are critical for a continent well suited to them
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Role Reversal
Eswar Prasad
Newly resilient emerging economies are rethinking the role of capital flows.
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Land for Sale
Raghuram Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan
Parsing booms and busts from U.S. farm prices a century ago
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Rajan on Fault Lines
Rajan: government's role
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To Sell or Not
John Quiggin
The author of Zombie Economics looks at the pros and cons of privatization
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Less Volatile Than Meets the Eye
Rabah Arezki, Daniel Lederman, and Hongyan ZhaoCommodity prices: more stable than manufactures?
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Are the Critics Right?
Masahiro Nozaki, Benedict Clements, and Sanjeev Gupta
Social spending gets a boost when low-income countries receive IMF financial support
AFRICA'S MIDDLE-CLASS MOTOR
The African IT Revolution—with a Feminine Touch
Lika Gueye
AkiraChix startup company offers girls technology training and experience (Online exclusive!)
What Ails South Africa
Abebe Aemro Selassie
Plagued by high unemployment and closely tied to Europe, South Africa struggles
Straight Talk: The Quality of Growth
Antoinette Sayeh
Poor households are benefiting from sub-Saharan Africa's high growth and wider global reach
Building an African Infrastructure
Paul Collier
Key political decisions are needed to build critical rail networks for a continent well suited to them
Undoing the resource curse
Kenyan infrastructure
The "bottom billion"
Point of View: Preventing Famine
Josette Sheeran
The ongoing drought and famine in the Horn of Africa make a case for using global risk management to achieve food security
Picture This: Africa—A Look into the Future
Natalie Ramírez-Djumena
What will the continent be like in 50 years' time?
Data Spotlight: Trade in East Africa
Shelley Winston and Carolina Castellanos
Increased intraregional trade and lower tariffs are paving the way for faster growth
Sneak Preview of March 2012 Issue
People in Economics
Prakash Loungani
Prakash Loungani profiles C. Fred Bergsten an American Globalist 
Role Reversal
Eswar S. Prasad
Emerging economies are less dependent on debt, less vulnerable to volatile investment sentiment, and are rethinking the role of capital flows
Land for Sale
Raghuram Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan
Clues to whether easy credit causes booms and busts in asset prices can be found in U.S. farmland prices a century ago
To Sell or Not
John Quiggin
The author of Zombie Economics looks at the pros and cons of privatization
Fixing the Flaws in EMU
Florence Jaumotte
The euro area's long-term survival calls for a fundamental transformation of policymaking
A Cushion for the Poor
Evan Tanner and Jorge Restrepo
Commodity-exporting governments can reduce debt and still protect their least well off citizens
Less Volatile than Meets the Eye
Rabah Arezki, Daniel Lederman, and
Hongyan Zhao
Contrary to popular wisdom, commodity prices can be more stable than prices of manufactured products
Are the Critics Right?
Masahiro Nozaki, Benedict Clements, and
Sanjeev Gupta
A new study finds that public education and health spending get a boost when low-income countries receive IMF financial support
Departments
People in Economics
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on a different Africa
Back to Basics
What Is Econometrics?
Sam Ouliaris
Taking a theory and quantifying it
Book Reviews
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Sylvia Nasar
Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance, Arvind Subramanian
Tearing Down Walls: The International Monetary Fund 1990–1999, James Boughton
Index
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