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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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April 28, 2006
Why does China have a looser monetary policy than the United States?
We know why the global economy grew strongly in the first quarter. Nothing changed. Or rather, the basic pattern that has driven global growth for the past few years intensified.The US continued t…
May 2, 2006
Financial Markets
And the money keeps rolling in …
To Russia. In 1998, Russia was very short on cash. It went to the IMF and got a $15 billion credit line. When it didn’t hold up its end of the bargain – taking steps to collect a bit of revenue – t…
August 30, 2010
Myanmar
Burma’s Looming Disaster
This past week, the Burmese generals captured global media attention by apparently stepping down from their posts in anticipation of the upcoming national elections, the country’s first in two deca…
November 18, 2010
The World Next Week
The podcast for the The World Next Week is up. I am off-site at a conference, so Robert McMahon sat down with Sebastian Mallaby, who directs CFR’s Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studi…
December 17, 2010
China
Inflation is Political Too ...
People look at vegetable prices at a local food market in Shanghai. (Carlos Barria/Courtesy Reuters) Are there many things in Asia more political than inflation? At a time when governments across t…
