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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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June 17, 2005
Emerging Markets
Oil at $58. A bit on the global savings glut too
Oil closed above $58 a barrel on Friday. That’s kind of high. Kevin Drum nicely summarizes the range of explanations that have been put forward to explain oil’s recent rise. I tend to agree with h…
June 28, 2005
Financial Markets
C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: A Conversation with John Snow
The C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics is presented by the Corporate Program and the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.
September 27, 2005
United States
Savings gluts, investment droughts and the current global economy
Low yields in advanced economies lead capital (private capital that is) to head to emerging markets looking for yield. Emerging markets - whether scared by the crisis that followed the sudden with…
October 8, 2005
Public Health Threats and Pandemics
Bird Flu: How Concerned Should We Be?
Fears of bird flu dominated last week’s headlines. First, scientists announced their discovery October 5 that the 1918 outbreak of influenza, which killed 50 million people, was caused by bird flu th…
November 28, 2005
Israel
Makovsky: Sharon ‘Electrifies’ Israel by Bolting Likud and Likely to Make Further Withdrawals from West Bank to Ensure ‘Legacy’
David Makovsky, a senior fellow and director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, says Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s decision to b…