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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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April 6, 2017
China
RMB Globalization, Once "Unstoppable," Heads Into Reverse
“The globalisation of the [Chinese RMB] seems remorseless and unstoppable,” the Economist pronounced in April 2014. A year later, a research-grant foundation asked me (Benn) to review …
March 30, 2013
Asia
Is Democracy in Reverse?
In today’s Los Angeles Times, longtime foreign correspondent Carol Williams poses a wide-ranging series of questions about my new book Democracy in Retreat. You can see the whole interview here.
March 30, 2007
Emerging Markets
Reverse globalization
The phrase the “uphill flow of capital” seems to have caught on. It is a vivid way of describing a world where poor countries finance rich countries. Or, a bit more accurately, China and some no-l…
December 28, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria: What if Globalization Reverses?
This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The views expressed below are his personal views and do not reflect those of his former e…
August 4, 2008
Monetary Policy
Reversal of fortune
Korea’s reserves fell by about $10 billion in July -- a bigger fall than in November 1998,* at the height of Korea’s crisis. Korea, of course, has WAY more reserves now. It can afford to intervene …