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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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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…
December 6, 2012
Development
New From CFR: Foreign Affairs on Poverty in India
A review by Andrew Nathan in the November/December Foreign Affairs examines two books on poverty reduction in India, home to some 35 percent of the world’s poorest people. The first volume is Poverty…
February 17, 2012
Education
Competitiveness: How the United States Lost its Way
While it’s only February, I feel safe in making the following prediction: the new issue of the Harvard Business Review contains the most important thinking on the issue of U.S. competitiveness that w…
October 16, 2006
China
The real winner from the United States’ current trade with China …
The Wall Street Journal (oped division) says no one benefits more from the modern China trade than America’s poor, who get access to cheap, well-made Chinese goods. Alas, they pay a bit more for oil…
July 18, 2011
International Organizations
U.S. Trade Policy: Is America AWOL?
Activists of NGO's demonstrate the Doha Round before the closing ceremony of the 7th WTO ministerial meeting in Geneva (Denis Balibouse/ Courtesy Reuters). World Bank President Robert Zoellick got …
