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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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February 26, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa and Barclays Africa
This is a guest post by Allen Grane, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. The recent rumor of Barclays PLC’s potential sale of its African businesses has c…
July 23, 2007
China
First Blackstone, then Barclays …
The alliance between the Chinese state – lest we forget, still a (nominally) communist state -- and the high priests of global financial capitalism is close to complete. Goldman, Royal Bank o…
August 14, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
International Finance: "Somalia is Different"
This is a guest post by Sarah Madden, volunteer intern for the Council on Foreign Relations, Department of Studies. Sarah is currently a student at Santa Clara University studying business economics …
July 10, 2012
Europe and Eurasia
More Evidence That LIBOR Is Manipulated, and What It Means
Barclays’ admission that it deliberately understated the interest rates at which it could borrow between September 2007 and May 2009 suggests grievous flaws in the widespread process of using LIBO…
