Council of Councils
Think Global Health
Online Store
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.
46 Results for:
Filters
July 18, 2007
China
$136 billion here, $131b there and pretty soon you are talking about real money …
China announced that it added $130.6b to its reserves in the second quarter, only a bit smaller than the $135.7b it added in the first quarter. Most of the increase was real: if China had 5% of its …
December 3, 2008
China
Should the currency of the country with a large and growing trade surplus and large and growing reserves depreciate against the dollar?
On Monday China apparently decided to allow the renminbi to depreciate against the dollar. Let’s be clear: China generally still has to intervene in the market to keep its currency from appreciat…
January 13, 2009
Monetary Policy
Secrets of SAFE: A sharp slowdown in reserve growth and large “hot” outflows in q4….
China’s formal foreign exchange reserves rose by about $40 billion in the fourth quarter, rising from $1906 billion to $1946 billion. Adjusted for valuation changes, that works to a $55 billion or …
April 11, 2008
China
China: $154b in q1 reserve growth
Neither the fact that China added $154b to its reserves in the first quarter ($153.9b) nor the fact that the RMB (briefly) broke through 7 was exactly a surprise. China’s reserves were heading u…
June 23, 2017
U.S. Foreign Policy
You Might Have Missed: Academic Journals VI
This is the sixth blog post in this series. The previous five were published in February, July, and October 2015, and January and May 2016, and highlight earlier academic findings. This post was coau…
