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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 5, 2024
Health
Virtual Roundtable: A Conversation on Food and Nutrition Policy With Francesco Branca
FRIEDEN: Thank you so much for joining us. I'm delighted today that we have Dr. Francesco Branca with us for a conversation about nutritional issues very broadly. Francesco is Director of the Departm…
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…
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…
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 …
