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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 8, 2013
Education
Globalization and Rising Inequality: A Big Question and Lousy Answers
While freer trade makes everyone collectively richer, the impacts are unequal. There are winners and losers, and even among the winners there are some who gain a great deal and some who gain very lit…
August 10, 2012
Foreign Aid
Question of the Week: Are Randomized Controlled Trials a Good Way to Evaluate Development Projects?
Question of the Week posts review important questions and controversies in global development by providing background information and links to a full spectrum of analysis and opinion. Today’s post ta…
April 5, 2009
Sign of strength or evidence of weakness? China’s dollar reserves
On Friday, Paul Krugman interpreted China’s call for a new reserve currency as a sign of weakness: “But Mr. Zhou’s speech was actually an admission of weakness. In effect, he was saying that China …
October 8, 2008
Monetary Policy
Can the G7 Save the Market?
The Federal Reserve has announced a series of extraordinary measures to unclog credit markets. However, credit markets remain frozen, and as the graph above indicates, the equity markets have respo…
May 27, 2014
India
Five Questions for Professor Jagdish Bhagwati on the Indian Economy and Prime Minister Modi’s Next Steps
This post is part of a series on the Indian elections. Jagdish Bhagwati, university professor at Columbia University and senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations…
