This article is the first to show that foreign investors care about economic freedoms, rather than political freedoms, in making decisions about where to locate capital. Hence more democratic countries may receive less Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows if economic freedoms are not guaranteed.

India must embrace a modern view of corruption--a view in which leaders are not merely judged by their conduct, but by the conduct they permit on their watch.

Today with GDP growth slowing, the rupee softening and the stock market in a funk, it's time to reassess Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's record.

How are factors such as corruption perception and the level of democracy influencing foreign direct investment to developing economies?

Growth is slowing, but the politicians at fault haven't heeded calls for serious reform.

Is India a weak link in what used to be called the global war on terror?

By delaying retail foreign direct investment, the Indian government has protected the intermediary status quo, and ignored the plight of 500 million desperately poor Indians living on farms who have publicly voiced their support of allowing retail giants to enter the Indian market.

With slowing economic growth, a publicly feuding cabinet, and a series of corruption scandals that have paralyzed governance, you might think the last thing India needs is a foreign policy mishap. But there's no other way to characterize New Delhi's full-throated support for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's dangerous grandstanding at the United Nations in pursuit of statehood.