A few weeks ago I agreed with Nouriel Roubini's notion that a dollar carry trade is forming, which faces an inevitable bust. Heiko Hesse from the IMF has tested Roubini's thesis, and finds evidence that the dollar carry trade most likely exists. The proof is in the reverse correlation between the dollar's value and major asset prices, such as oil: The U.S.

Big growth in buy in and use of the Communicate collaboration system

Paul Ssengooba of the Grameen Foundation discusses the reach of mobile devices in rural settings. Recorded on November 23, 2009 at TEDxKampala.

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Paul Kedrosky and Brad Feld make the case in the Wall Street Journal: Immigrants have not only founded big, well-known companies. Foreign-born residents made up just 12.5% of the U.S. population in 2008. But nearly 40% of technology company founders and 52% of founders of companies in Silicon Valley (are immigrants). Yet we don't seem to care.

This guest post was written by Joshua Haynes who is studying for his Masters of International Business, at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Last month, Ryan took a look at the impact of the financial crisis on microfinance in Latin America, arguing that uncompetitive microfinance markets and small or inexperienced MFIs were responsible for increased premiums.

In my Infostate of Africa graphic I tried to bring attention to one of the geekier problems facing Africa: the issue of country-code Top Level ...

After installing the free Ubuntu Linux operating system on his second computer, Allan Jackson puts it to the test with some real work.