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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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September 25, 2015
Iran
Weekend Reading: Iran’s Parliament, Syria Divided, and Egyptian Illusions
Farideh Farhi explores the Iranian parliament’s review of the nuclear deal. Abdulrahman al-Rashed examines the consequences of a divided Syria. Maged Atiya discusses the illusions and theatricality…
September 6, 2016
China
Imbalances Are Back, In Asia and Globally
The Economist, inspired in part by a recent paper by Caballero, Farhi and Gourinchas, highlighted two key points in its free exchange column criticizing Germany’s surplus: a) Global imbalances have …
June 5, 2009
Monetary Policy
The return of Bretton Woods Two? (or Bretton Woods 2.1?)
If you read the headlines earlier this week, you might well have concluded that the dollar’s days as the world’s leading reserve currency are numbered. Yu Yongding of China’s Academy of Social Sc…
April 1, 2006
Emerging Markets
Martin Wolf must have an amazing research assistant …
Either that or he has a lot of time on his hands.The powerpoint slides that accompany his John Hopkins lecture series on the Global Economy are amazing. And not just because they are all shaded FT p…
September 12, 2007
United States
A savings glut, not an investment drought -
So argues Ben Bernanke. His basic argument is very simple. The emerging world now has a large and growing current account surplus that finances a large and growing current account defic…