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The importance of doing business
by Ana Palacio*

17 May 2013, Friday / ANA PALACIO, MADRID

This month, an independent review panel is expected to release its findings regarding the World Bank's Doing Business report. Speculation abounds that the panel might recommend outsourcing Doing Business, removing its rankings of countries for the ease of doing business in them, or even eliminating the report altogether.

New deal for fragile states
by Erik Solheim*

Today, roughly one-quarter of the world's population lives in conflict-affected and »»

Syrian refugees
by Taner Kılıç*

Unlike its initial reluctance to open its borders to Kurds fleeing persecution in »»

Oily dirt
by Randall Morck*

Calm discussion of the environment nowadays is about as plausible as reasoned dialogue »»

Hugging a burning tree
by Bjorn Lomborg*

We are all brought up to recycle paper to save trees. We get countless e-mail admonitions: »»

Syria: old game, same rules, different context
by Kaan Kutlu Ataç*

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, »»

Field of Muslim-Western relations as crucial today as ever
by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed*

From the time Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" was published over two decades »»

Preparing for a growing crisis
by Sabine Freizer*

The massive dual bombings in the Reyhanlı district of Turkey's Hatay province on »»

Syria's sectarian stalemate
by Bernard Haykel*

What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian »»

Sarajevo-Belgrade-Ankara, again
by Hajrudin Somun*

There is something new in the Balkans with regard to negotiations, reconciliation »»

The Resurrection of Congress
by Shashi Tharoor*

The overwhelming victory of the Indian National Congress in elections in the important »»

Boston Bombings and SVR-FBI espionage war
by Aydoğan Vatandaş*

It is not a secret that Russian intelligence services have successfully penetrated »»

Denial, the other river in Egypt
by Ahmed M. Abou Hussein*

Have you learned about the new cabinet reshuffle in Egypt? Shocked? Egyptians aren’t »»

Debt without drowning
by Paul De Grauwe *

Since the 1970’s, economists have warned that a monetary union could not be »»

The Mismeasure of Poverty
by Jomo Kwame Sundaram*

In early 2012, outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced that the Millennium »»

The Egypt-Israel Peace Test
by Itamar Rabinovich and Tamara Wittes*

The rocket strikes that a militant Islamist group recently fired from the Egyptian »»

Heydar Aliyev: founder of modern Azerbaijan
by Musa Gasimly*

Taking a look on the occasion of the 90th birthday of well-known Azerbaijani statesman »»

EBRD's annual meeting opens in İstanbul
by Mike Davey*

Today, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is opening its »»

15 characteristics of the Armenian narrative
by Tal Buenos*

Following the outpour of media material on April 24 in memory of the dreadful events »»

Europe's irrelevant austerity debate
by Daniel Gros*

The most visible symptom of the crisis in the eurozone has been the high and variable »»

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Columnists

	EKREM DUMANLI

	How will Obama-Erdoğan talks affect Syria?

	ABDULLAH BOZKURT

	EU's stake in Turkey's judicial council

	İHSAN YILMAZ

	Turkey, US and Russia on Syria

	ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ

	Gül's warnings on presidential system, transparency!

	ORHAN MİROĞLU

	Disappointment in Hrant Dink case

	EMRE USLU

	Can we Turkify Turkish intelligence?

	MARKAR ESAYAN

	No libretto for history?

	SEYFETTİN GÜRSEL

	Employment increases despite low growth

	BERİL DEDEOĞLU

	A trial in Germany

	KLAUS JURGENS

	Women's rights in Turkey seen by Lithuania

	CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON

	Taking crazy chances while driving

	MERVE BÜŞRA ÖZTÜRK

	CHP's steady inconsistency

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