As civil war pounds Myanmar's economy and drives up prices, garment worker Wai Wai often starts her shift making clothes for ...

Historians discuss labor relations between former slaves and former masters after the Civil War. Ed Ayers ... All the land in the South is not worth anything if there's not anybody to work ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... especially laws interfering with the South's right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished.

The term “New South” was coined after the Civil War during a time of economic transition for the formerly slave-owning region. “The South has always been reinventing itself,” said Gavin ...

While many countries are in fiscal trouble, South Sudan’s woes are at a whole other level. Civil servants ... nearly 200,000 ...

This issue of the South Asia Economic Focus, describes recent economic developments, analyzes the economic impact on South Asia of the war in Ukraine, presents growth forecasts, provides risk ...