From The Observer: With the credit crunch almost a year old and still far from over, fighting poverty risks sliding down the list of priorities for rich countries struggling against inflation and recession. Justin Yifu Lin, the...

In the International Herald Tribune, Howard French writes about Justin Lin Yifu, the new chief economist for the World Bank: A quick look at his résumé suggests that Justin Lin Yifu is just the kind of person one would expect to...