Articles by Fred Abrahams

Postcard from…Albania

Postcard from…Albania

December 10, 2010 | It's the 20-year anniversary of the beginning of the end of Europe's last communist state.

Food and Trade: Dialogue

February 20, 2007 | FPIF asked Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute and Gawain Kripke of Oxfam whether international trade is good for agriculture or not. Mittal sees free trade as hazardous to farmers and farming. Kripke sees a role for trade in sustainable development. While they agree on many points, here they also take issue with each other's positions.

Free Trade Doesn’t Help Agriculture

February 20, 2007 | FPIF asked Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute and Gawain Kripke of Oxfam whether international trade is good for agriculture or not. Mittal sees free trade as hazardous to farmers and farming. Kripke sees a role for trade in sustainable development. While they agree on many points, here they also take issue with each other's positions.

Kosovos Tricky Waltz

February 7, 2007 | Kosovo is on its way to becoming the latest piece of former Yugoslavia to achieve nationhood. But a bumpy road lies ahead.

Free Market Famine

October 26, 2006 | Niger is the poorest country in the world. Neither humanitarian aid nor free-market reforms prevented its 2005 food crisis.

Macedonia

April 1, 1998 | Small and relatively unknown, Macedonia (officially called the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, or FYROM) is the key to stability in the southern Balkans.

Albania

May 1, 1997 | After the cold war, Albania became a country of strategic importance to the United States.