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The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen “When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” —Alfred McCoy, author, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia A Soviet “Vietnam” By far the most influe...

Blending economics, development, and human rights: A profile of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Motivated by a desire to improve the lives of those in his native country, Cuba, the economist became come one of the youngest full professors at Yale, an expert on Latin American economics, and an advocate for U.S.-Cuba relations. The legacy of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro – at Yale and in Latin American scholarship  By Lisa Qian March 29, 2021 One of Yale’s most influential and prominent economics professors never intended to become an academic.  For Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, a native Cuban, the goal in pursui...

Researchers surveyed ‘parental burnout’ across the globe and found American parents among the most exhausted By Megan Ziegler Researchers surveyed ‘parental burnout’ across the globe and found American parents among most exhausted The study was put together by the university UCLouvain in Belgium and thousands of parents in 42 countries participated. Researchers who gauged "parental burnout" in dozens of countries around the world found American moms and dads were among those feeling most exhausted. The study also found one specific cultural factor common in "Western" count...

What’s new? In February 2020, South Sudan’s two main belligerents began forming a unity government pursuant to a peace deal inked a year and a half earlier. But the pact is fragile, smaller conflicts are still ablaze and the threat of return to full-blown civil war remains.  Why does it matter? Forthcoming elections could test the peace deal severely. Looking further ahead, conflict will continue to plague South Sudan until its leaders forge a political system that distributes power more widely. The cost of cyclical fighting since 2013 has been steep: hundreds of thousands dead and m...

By Lisa Qian January 7, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Paul Kuznets (second from left) with colleagues from the Bank of Korea during the 1966-67 academic year as part of the Country Studies program. Photo courtesy Paul Kuznets. United Nations consultant, algorithmic stock trader, chief economist of the Office of Management and Budget, Marxist theorist. These are just some of the jobs held by the alumni of the Country Studies program, the flagship research agenda of Yale’s Economic Growth Center (EGC). When the EGC ...