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International Development:

1) Peter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development.

2) Winners of the Development Marketplace 2007.

3) A review of Giles Bolton’s Poor Story: An Insider Uncovers How Globalization and Good Intentions Have Failed the World’s Poor.

4) A bit belated, but here’s Daniel Altman’s Managing Globalization blog’s Q & A with Jeffrey Sachs. Also check out the blog’s latest Q & A entry with Zhang Rongde, a chinese migrant worker with a “ground-level view of globalization and the side effects of China’s rapid economic growth.”

5) Diverse groups of globalization critics need to work together if they want to achieve long-term goals.

Politics & Economics:

6) Washington diary: Land of ideas.

7) The deepening of Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution: why most people don’t get it.

Progressive Christianity:

8) Shane Claiborne: Finding the Simple Way.

9) Christianity Today: Evangelical social reform is a many-splendored thing.

Others:

10) Is stripping a feminist act?

International Development:

1) Sebastian Mallaby on finishing what Wolfowitz started.

2) Spiegel Online: The West’s Poverty Subsidies.

3) Nicholas Kristof on poverty. See also here.

4) The Washington Post: Free trade’s great, but offshoring rattles me.

Politics & Economics:

5) Why we fight over foreign policy.

6) The McKinsey Quarterly: Exploring business’s social contract.

7) BusinessWeek: Inside U.S. companies’ audacious drive to extract more profits from the nation’s working poor.

Progressive Christianity:

8) Time: Benedict and Brazil’s Catholic Leftists. Read more here and here.

9) The Archbishop of Canterbury on Dostoevsky.

Others:

10) The Harvard Crimson: The Truth in Progress.

International Development:

1) How the partnership between policy-makers and development specialists can endanger the latter’s intellectual independence and increase the risk of bad outcomes.

2) ZNet’s Global Warming debate between Alexander Cockburn and George Monbiot.

3) The New York Times: Carbon-Neutral is Hip, but is it Green?

4) Eventhough the World Bank is in desperate trouble, it is still the best institution to address international challenges such as climate change.

5) Gristmill: Is your little world big enough to sustain you indefinitely?

Politics & Economics:

6) The New Yorker: Where is Barack Obama coming from?

7) Dissent: Is Socialism Liberal?

Progressive Christianity:

8) The New York Times: A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for Faith.

9) Tony Campolo: The institutional church is for every believer.

Others:

10) Peter Singer on why making people happier should be part of the role of government.

International Development:

1) William Easterly on Wolfowitz and the World Bank.

2) The problem with carbon offsetting.

3) The key to solving the climate change crisis is technology, says Jeffrey Sachs.

4) Orion Magazine: Do environmentalists conspire against their own interests? (Part one, part two)

5) Gristmil: Feeding the world sustainably.

Politics & Economics:

6) A lesser known definition of neoliberalism.

7) The Nonprofit Industrial Complex: Is there such a thing as too much civil society?

Progressive Christianity:

8) A short history of the Christian Right.

9) The rise of centrist evangelicalism.

Others:

10) Relativism has made liberal openness appear weak, empty and repugnant compared with the clarity of dogma.