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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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October 19, 2006
China
The Economist v. Nick Lardy
China’s goods and services trade surplus is set to increase from $50b in 2004 to $185b in 2006. China’s current account surplus is set to rise from around 3-4% of China’s 2004 GDP to around 9% of it…
October 18, 2016
Elections and Voting
Is it Still 1968? A Conversation with Michael A. Cohen
Today, I spoke with Michael A. Cohen, regular contributor at The Boston Globe, about his new book, American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division (also available on iTunes here). …
October 31, 2016
Conflict Prevention
Understanding Atrocities: A Conversation with Dara Kay Cohen
I spoke with Dara Kay Cohen, assistant professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, about her book, Rape During Civil War. To better understand this underexamined wartime atrocity, Dara buil…
May 23, 2014
North Korea
Roberta Cohen: Moving Forward on North Korean Human Rights
Roberta Cohen is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, specializing in human rights and humanitarian issues. “Now is the time to act,” the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Huma…
June 1, 2007
China
The World Banks shows just how a large a policy shift Martin Wolf (and Nick Lardy) are proposing for China
The World Bank estimates that net exports contributed 3.3 percentage points to China’s growth in q1, “broadly the same as in the second half of 2006 and higher than expected.” And from the accompany…