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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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December 29, 2011
Guest Post: Kate Collins on Five Hot Spots to Watch in Africa in 2012
Children show burnt election ballots outside a polling station in Kinshasa on November 29, 2011. (Emmanuel Braun/courtesy Reuters) In recent months, the news out of sub-Saharan Africa has often been…
April 9, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: Rising Profits Not Powering Employment Growth
The Wall Street Journal reports that large firms are more profitable and efficient than before the recession, but most of their new jobs and profits are overseas. The analysis of the financial report…
November 1, 2016
Education
How Inequality Found a Political Voice
MILAN – It took a long time for widening inequality to have an impact on politics, as it suddenly has done in recent years. Now that it is a central issue, national economic priorities will need to s…
May 3, 2017
European Union
Reprieve or Reform in Europe?
MILAN – The first round of the French election turned out much as expected: the centrist Emmanuel Macron finished first, with 24% of the vote, rather narrowly beating the right-wing National Front’s …
