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July 22, 2014
Politics and Government
Hello, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo: President of Indonesia
Sometimes sure things turn out not to be so sure. Just ask Joko Widodo, who is better known to his fellow Indonesians as “Jokowi.” At the start of 2014 he was expected to win Indonesia’s presidential…
August 5, 2005
Capital Flows
China, the US and the geopolitics of oil
The CNOOC Unocal saga is over. But CNOOC's ambitions remain: Energy market experts now expect Cnooc, which is controlled by the Beijing government, to explore opportunities throughout the Asia-Pacifi…
January 28, 2011
Americas
Breaking the Cycle
I published an article with my colleague Dora Beszterczey in the Winter 2011 issue of the Americas Quarterly on the impact of opportunities and jobs lost to insecurity and the disproportionate costs …
December 11, 2007
Emerging Markets
The new financial superpowers (part 2)
Sovereign wealth funds are hot. A senior JP Morgan Chase banker, quoted in Time: "SWFs ... are the new 'it' girl of global finance. Everyone wants a piece of them." Almost every investment bank …
April 5, 2006
Monetary Policy
Where to invest 4.2 trillion? The latest IMF data on the currency composition of the world’s reserves
Via Menzie Chinn of Econbrowser comes word that the IMF has released its latest data on global reserves. For reserve data and capital flows data geeks, this is big news. I have been trying to use …