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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 28, 2009
Monetary Policy
Central banks were not the big buyers of synthetic triple AAA …
Ricardo Caballero argues that the current crisis stems from (flawed) efforts to construct safe assets out of risky assets in order to meet a surge in investor demand for safe assets. He is on to som…
October 10, 2012
Education
The Immigrant Exodus: Why Washington Needs to Listen
I had the pleasure of hosting an event last week for Vivek Wadhwa to discuss his important and troubling new book, The Immigrant Exodus. Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned scholar, has done more than any…
October 2, 2011
China
Can India and America Up Their Investment Game?
Commuters on a suburban train during the morning rush hour in Mumbai.Danish Siddiqui/Courtesy Reuters. My latest column is out in India’s financial daily, the Business Standard. I used this …
July 20, 2010
Thailand
Thailand’s Creeping Authoritarianism
Damir Sagolj / courtesy Reuters As international attention has shifted elsewhere following the dispersal of protests in Bangkok in May, the Thai government has quietly moved toward a kind of cree…
March 22, 2012
India
Economics and Indian Strategy
South Asia is among the least economically integrated regions of the world, in part because partition cleaved apart various natural economic communities. Regions, such as Bengal, which had been well …
