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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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August 16, 2006
Economics
PIMCO is betting on the continuation of Bretton Woods 2
At least that is how I read the latest Paul McCulley/ Andrew Balls paper. By the way, Andrew Balls, welcome to the world of financial opinion journalism … otherwise known as economic analysis and m…
December 23, 2015
Education
She Made Herself Malala
I had the honor of meeting Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai and her father this past summer, during their visit to the United States. Malala became an internationally-known activist, after…
June 19, 2015
What’s Worth Reading This Summer?
CFR.org editor Bob McMahon and I sat down yesterday to record the annual summer reading episode of CFR’s “The World Next Week” podcast. Our good friend and colleague, Janine Davidson, joined us for t…
February 1, 2013
Education
Education: Do International Test Scores Matter?
We’ve all seen the headlines: American students are far from stellar performers on international tests. Whether it’s the OECD’s oft-cited gold-standard PISA test on math and reading, the TIMSS test o…
June 7, 2006
Emerging Markets
The IMF hasn’t lost clout because private capital flows have ballooned.
It has lost clout because emerging economies reserves have ballooned. Plus, the countries that count that matter now – whether big deficit countries like the US or big surplus countries like Chin…