Yemen’s unrest has not ended with the ouster of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Yemeni Revolution instead has entered a new phase, the “Parallel Revolution.”

Establishing efficient policy mechanisms to guide developing economies through the structural transformation should be a priority of world governments in the twenty-first century.

Repeal of the current health law is a necessary, but not a sufficient, part of fixing our health care system. A credible “replace” proposal needs to deal with a number of important issues.

Until very recently, the world was overwhelmingly agrarian and poor; today, an increasing number of developed societies are both overwhelmingly affluent and urban. But the role of agriculture in economic development presents a paradox. On the one hand, the transition out of agriculture is essential for the "structural transformation" that...

The role of agriculture is steadily diminishing in the world economy.

In December 2010, the President's Fiscal Commission failed to garner the necessary supermajority to pass its plan to reduce the deficit. Now, with the super committee, starting work on its effort to propose $1.5 trillion in deficit reductions, some have speculated that history is about to repeat itself. However, a closer examination reveals a night-and-day difference.

While Russia's budget surplus and gross domestic product have soared under President Vladimir Putin's stewardship, so too have corruption and cronyism. How stable is Russia's economy, and what should foreign investors expect in the coming year? How will the Kremlin's campaign to recapture the economy's "commanding heights" and its apparent...

On November 13, AEI will host a lecture by Yegor Gaidar, acting prime minister during the first government of President Boris Yeltsin and the architect of the free-market revolution in post-Soviet Russia. Mr. Gaidar will relate the lessons of the Soviet state’s failure to the new direction of the Kremlin...