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Energy Innovation

Authors: Michael A. Levi, Elizabeth C. Economy, Shannon K. O'Neil, and Adam Segal

This study examines low-carbon technology innovation and absorption in China, India, and Brazil. It recommends a course for U.S. policy that promotes accelerated innovation and adoption of new technologies while protecting U.S. commercial interests.

See more in United States, Brazil, China, India, Emerging Markets, Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, Energy

Video

Evaluating Progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals

Speakers: T. Charles Cooper, Robert C. Orr, and Samuel A. Worthington
Presider: Gail D. Fosler

Experts discuss the role of the UN Millennium Development Goals as a framework for new government development policy, the importance of increasing aid funding transparency with developing nations, and the impact of the financial crisis on the developing world.

See more in Human Rights, Emerging Markets, Humanitarian Law, UN, Humanitarian Intervention, Peacekeeping, Culture and Foreign Policy

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Evaluating Progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals (Audio)

Speakers: T. Charles Cooper, Robert C. Orr, and Samuel A. Worthington
Presider: Gail D. Fosler

Experts discuss the role of the UN Millennium Development Goals as a framework for new government development policy, the importance of increasing aid funding transparency with developing nations, and the impact of the financial crisis on the developing world.

See more in Democracy Promotion, Human Rights, Economic Development, Emerging Markets, UN, Global Health, Humanitarian Intervention, Peacekeeping, Culture and Foreign Policy

Article

Assessing State Compliance with Obligations to Fulfill Economic and Social Rights – A Methodology and Application to the States of Brazil

Authors: Terra Lawson-Remer, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Patrick Guyer, Susan Randolph, and Louise Moreira Daniels
Coleção Fórum Diretos Humanos

Development policies are designed to achieve specific goals, so how those goals are defined has profound implications for the types of policies pursued, and how progress is evaluated. This chapter from Direito ao Desenvolvimento, edited by Flavia Piovesan and Ines Virginia Prado Soares, presents an index that measures the fulfillment of economic and social rights and applies it to assessing the performance of the 27 states of the Federal Republic of Brazil.

See more in Brazil, Economics, Economic Development, Emerging Markets, Society and Culture

Op-Ed

Don't Give It Currency

Authors: Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya
The Times of India

Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya argue that it is a mistake for India to join the United States in "China bashing" over the value of the renminbi. With its savings rate high and rising, India too could run into the Chinese "problem" of a current account surplus.

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Op-Ed

America Risks Being Left Behind in Asia

Author: Evan A. Feigenbaum
Financial Times

"As U.S. president Barack Obama makes his way through Asia he will find a dynamic region in ferment," writes Evan Feigenbaum. And, as the region continues to grow, the United States needs to assert itself through trade agreements or risk becoming marginalized in a region that will constitute about half the global economy.

See more in Asia, Business and Foreign Policy, Emerging Markets, Trade