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Senior Fellow for International Economics
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November 12, 2009
Interview
The recession has added fuel to the debate over skilled-worker visas, including a recent congressional effort to create stricter rules. CFR's Jagdish Bhagwati says the United States should be welcoming skilled workers and other immigrants.
See more in North America, Immigration
March 4, 2009
Op-Ed
Forbes Online
Unlike the world's leaders at the last G20 meeting, President Obama has not turned his rhetoric loose against protectionism. In this Forbes.com article, Jagdish Bhagwati writes that Prime Minister Gordon Brown must ask the president to passionately defend trade and openness.
See more in U.K., Trade, Congress
February 5, 2009
Transcript
In this CFR conference call, Jagdish Bhagwati, Senior Fellow in International Economics, discusses the trades issues relating to the "Buy American" provision in the stimulus bill.
See more in United States, Trade
September 23, 2008
Transcript
A meeting with Jagdish Bhagwati, CFR senior fellow for international economics, and author of new book Termites In The Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade.
See more in United States, Economics, Business & Foreign Policy, Economic Development, International Finance, Trade
June 23, 2008
Op-Ed
Financial Times
With the Doha trade round in danger of slipping from our grasp, it has become commonplace to assert that the food crisis, while a tragedy, is a shot in the arm for the talks. In this Financial Times op-ed, Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya find that only one such argument passes muster—the fact that high food prices should soften U.S. opposition to lower agricultural subsidies, thereby relaxing key constraints on the final compromises necessary to reach an agreement on agricultural liberalisation.
See more in India, Trade, International Organizations
March 3, 2008
Op-Ed
Financial Times
No Democratic candidate during the primaries can be anything but a protectionist. In this Financial Times op-ed, Jagdish Bhagwati questions whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama is likely to be friendlier as president to the cause of multilateral free trade. He finds that the odds are in favour of Mr Obama.
See more in United States, Trade, U.S. Election 2008
July 30, 2007
Op-Ed
India Today
When the WTO talks among the G-4—the United States, the European Union, India and Brazil—collapsed last month, US Trade Representative Susan Schwab squarely laid the blame on India as the villain of the piece. Jagdish Bhagwati argues that US and EU agricultural subsidies are the real culprits.
See more in India, Trade, International Organizations
July 24, 2007
Op-Ed
Financial Times
Prospects for immigration reform have failed, and mostly because many of the proposed reforms had already been tried, unsuccessfully, with the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. If amnesty is no longer possible, we should instead work to raise the comfort level of immigrants closer to levels of what citizenship brings, argues Jagdish Bhagwati.
See more in United States, Immigration
February 9, 2007
Interview
CFR's Jagdish Bhagwati says U.S. must alter its approach to developing nations.
See more in Brazil, China, India, Economics, Emerging Markets, Trade
November 3, 2006
Op-Ed
Financial Times
See more in Asia, Trade, International Organizations
April 8, 2006
Op-Ed
Financial Times
See more in United States, Immigration
February 27, 2006
Op-Ed
Financial Times
See more in Africa, Humanitarian Intervention, Poverty
January 29, 2002
Op-Ed
Financial Times
See more in Europe/Russia, EU, Trade
March 21, 2000
Transcript
See more in Asia
Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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