It’s the end of the year, which means there are all sorts of retrospectives on the big things that happened in 2012.  Here’s a list of interesting articles that recap the year gone by.

• Andres Marroquin’s blog lists the top ten economic papers of 2012. Topping the list is a working paper from the Journal of Politics 201 titled ‘Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism’. See more papers here [1].

• Consider yourself an aficionado of the latest in global development issues? Then test your knowledge by taking a quiz [2] put together by The Guardian.

• Five years have passed since the financial crisis, and the global economy is still recovering. The Economist provides [3] a snapshot of the year’s important developments in the global economy through various charts. 

Looking ahead, in Stanford University’s Social Innovation Review, Mark Tobias of Pantheon explores 10 technology trends [4]to watch in 2013.

In a similar vein, David Armano of Edelman Digital predicts [5] ‘Six Social-Digital Trends for 2013’ in the Harvard Business Review’s Blog Network.