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s." Yet political scientist Juan Cole, who recently visited Libya, where he expected a fair degree of chaos, reports that in Benghazi, Misrata and Tripoli, "there were no militiamen to be seen, that most things were functioning normally, that there were police at traffic intersections, that there were

ers into their own hands. Raghuram Rajan is a professor of finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He previously served as the International Monetary Fund's youngest-ever chief economist, and was Chairman of India's Committee on Financial Sector Reforms. He is the author of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fract

pains of its new democracy and the occasional terrorist attacks (most recently the car bombing this past Tuesday that damaged the French Embassy in Tripoli), Libya's economic figures are the envy of the world. The country's real GDP leaped off the charts with a 104.5% growth last year, and is estimated

goff on the dangerous debt "threshold" at go percent of G.D.P. The problem is that the studies did not hold up under scrutiny. Because in late 2010, the International Monetary Fund had reworked Alesina-Ardagna with better data and reversed their findings, while many economists raised fundamental questions about Reinhart-Rogoff

n violence and increasing instability. Britain has advised against all but essential travel to Lebanon, where bomb attacks in the northern city of Tripoli killed 42 people last week, and as regional tensions grow over a possible US military strike on Syria. On Friday, Lebanon charged five men, includi

s Senior Economist for International Affairs in the White House's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. He has worked for the International Monetary Fund, the US Federal Reserve, and the World Bank. Ahram Tamarod campaigns in the Arab world reflect local woes Nadeen Shaker 31 Aug 2013 -- In the we

es for peace abroad. Still, don't hold your breath. Yes, democracy is where history is going, but it is a long, perilous journey even from Tunis to Tripoli, let alone all the way to Tehran. Mr. Joffe is senior fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies and a fellow at the Hoover

eign reserves are falling, as the central bank struggles to support the currency. Some fear that Egypt is heading for a balance-of-payments crisis. An International Monetary Fund-style austerity regime in an already poor country will not be a great advert for the post-Mubarak order. Despite all this, there is still plenty o