Commentary

So you have just become finance minister in a brand new country. You must now decide if you will iss

THE WORLD'S POOREST CONTINENT - Africa - is having a tough time competing for economic development f

IN THE FACE OF sluggish economic growth and low rates of national saving and investment, House Minor

The Department of Transportation is likely to miss the statutory Oct. 28 deadline for issuing final

High-definition television, a new method of transmitting and displaying video images with greater vi

I have a friend who often talks to the press about economic affairs, sometimes too candidly for his

FOREIGN SHIPBUILDING SUBSIDIES distort the world market for commercial ship sales and hurt U.S. buil

Many myths and misconceptions surround state marine pilots and the state-based methods for regulatin

In what is arguably the warmest period of the U.S.-Latin American relations in this century, one maj

SENSIBLE NATIONWIDE STANDARDS on product liability have been a long time coming in the United States

EVERY ONCE IN A GREAT WHILE, a thin ray of light emerges from the murky Middle East "peace process."

ENVIRONMENTALISM IS A FACT, not a fad. Corporations, slowly, are beginning to understand that. If th

Japanese are supposed to be workaholics. Critics claim that our legendary willingness to put in long

The former Soviets have an important lesson to teach world leaders who will meet in Brazil at the Ea

Big Steel has declared war on imports, and according to at least one veteran analyst, it may be Big

EUROPE'S SINGLE MARKET will be formally inaugurated at year's end, but it will be a long time after

The U.S. trade balance has been in deficit for over a decade, raising concern about U.S. competitive

Several groups of seasoned technocrats with exemplary credentials have recently urged the federal go

The newest member of the Fed's policy-making Open Market Committee is Jerry L. Jordan, president of

HOUSE DEMOCRATS unveiled a trade bill last week tinged with election year politics and tainted by pr

When you think of Italy, what comes to mind? Artistic treasures? Ancient Roman history? Fabulous foo

AMERICAN INVESTORS eager to buy stock in many profitable foreign companies have a problem. Shares of

UNION DEMOCRACY AT NMEBAThomas C. Harper's letter opines that you have "missed the essential

Unlike Corazon Aquino, the new president of the Philippines must do more than just survive. The nati

BANKERS HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING for years about over-regulation from Washington. Now, it seems, relief

PRESENTED WITH A CHANCE to display its leadership on an important environment issue - global warming

The bill attacking foreign shipbuilding subsidies should hit the House floor this week. The

FRENCH CULTURAL NATIONALISTS are at it again. The parliament's law committee, prompted by ha

AN AUTONOMOUS INVESTMENT CORP.It would be useful to clarify the relationship of the Inter-Am

Six years ago, Corazon Aquino emerged from obscurity to become one of the most popular leaders in th

Call it keeping up with the corporate Joneses. Companies, more than ever, are studying indus

Western aid to developing countries is moving away from its original aim of countering communism.

AGING JAPANESE RADICALS who hijacked a plane to North Korea two decades ago have found a niche: shep

The tendency was to think of the disturbing television scenes as just another California fantasy, a

FEARING COMPETITION from strong U.S. airlines, the French government this week canceled its 46-year

With the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of its foreign economic aid to Cuba, the question is

CREATING COMPUTER SOFTWARE - the sequence of machine instructions that cause computers to perform us

STOP NEEDLESS STUDIES ON TRANSPORTATIONRailroads are urging Congress to allocate more federa

Advocates of limiting the number of terms members of Congress may serve gathered here this week for

FREE MARKETS CAN SERVE all sorts of goals - even furthering religious nationalism. The gover