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Food prices are on the rise at home and abroad. World leaders are calling for action to ease the crisis. Our panel of experts will discuss what’s behind the higher prices and what, if anything, can be done about them in the short and long term.
David Orden, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC. He's also a professor in the Virginia Tech Institute for Society, Culture and Environment.
Yvonne Tsikata, country director for the Caribbean at the World Bank
Simon Johnson, economic counsellor and director of the Research Department, IMF
Bob Young, chief economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation
David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World
Why Islamic states thrived for hundreds of years, what led to their downfall, and the some of current challenges of Islamic governments in the modern world.
Noah Feldman, professor at Harvard Law School, contributing writer for the "New York Times Magazine," adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of "Divided by God, What We Owe Iraq" and "After Jihad."
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