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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 18, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Emerging Voices: Wolfgang Fengler on the Future of Aid to Africa
Emerging Voices features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Wolfgang Fengler, the lead e…
October 29, 2004
Financial Markets
David Wessel visited the Harvard economics department
Or at least talked to Summers and Rogoff, before writing his Thursday Wall Street Journal column. It is worth reading if you have access to the Journal. I agree with his bottom line: getting out of…
December 29, 2023
2023 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2023
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
May 26, 2017
Turkey
Weekend Reading: Leaving Istanbul, the Meaning of June 1967, and Protest in Oman
Reading selections for the weekend of May 26, 2017.
May 27, 2020
United States
Did the Dollar's Position as the Leading Reserve Currency Help Hold Treasury Yields Down This Spring?
Foreign Treasury sales, including large sales from reserve managers, made the Fed's job harder, not easier, in March.
May 7, 2015
Europe and Eurasia
Which Countries Stand to Lose Big from a Greek Default?
The IMF has turned up the heat on Greece’s Eurozone neighbors, calling on them to write off “significant amounts” of Greek sovereign debt. Writing off debt, however, doesn’t make the pain disappe…
