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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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July 24, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: Poverty Rate Expected to Reach Highest Level Since 1965
The Associated Press reports that the poverty rate is expected to rise from its 2010 level of 15.1 percent; an increase as small as 0.1 percent would be the highest level since 1965. Joblessness play…
December 7, 2005
China
There is a consensus: China needs to consume more
See Olivier Blanchard and Francesco Giavazzi's latest paper on China. Blanchard (last seen on these pages back in September) and Giavazzi have laid out a comprehensive economic program for China, o…
October 25, 2012
China
Will the Real Chinese Leaders Please Stand Up?
For more than two decades beginning in 1956, CBS and then NBC aired a television show “To Tell the Truth,” in which a panel of celebrities attempted to identify which one of three contestants was tel…
October 26, 2012
Israel
Middle East Matters This Week: Significant Developments in Syria, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. A deadly car bomb exploded in Damascus today just hours after the Eid holiday ceasefire, brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi between Syria’s …
September 16, 2005
United States
Has the US outsourced creative thinking about external adjustment to … France?
Many have noted that President Bush likes French-style vacations. Not so many have noticed that French economists have been at the forefront of thinking about the US current account deficit, and the…
