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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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September 29, 2017
Development
A Conversation With Neal Keny-Guyer and Ann Miles
Women's economic participation is critical to global growth and prosperity, according to global data from the World Bank, IMF, McKinsey, and the OECD. Yet despite the consensus around women's role in…
May 4, 2008
Financial Markets
The Economist and Goldman on oil and the dollar
I liked the lede of this week’s economist story on the Fed, the dollar and oil: “THE spirit of St Augustine hovered over the Federal Reserve this week. “Oh Lord, let us stop cutting interest rates…
February 18, 2007
China
Goldman: PBoC using swaps to limit reserve growth
Goldman seems to have confirmed something that I -- and, for that matter, Stephen Green of Standard Chartered and Louis Kuijs of the World Bank -- have suspected for a while: China's "true" reserve g…
October 29, 2006
China
Goldman economic research v. the Economist (Drivers of Chinese growth)
I, obviously, liked this week’s Economist article on China quite a bit. So I really shouldn't still be writing about last week’s article on Chinese consumption growth. That article argued that cons…
January 4, 2011
Russia
What’s Spelled Out in Khodorkovsky’s Sentence
Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s sentencing to another prison term was a foregone conclusion, underscoring both the continued power of President Putin and Khodorkovsky’s arrogance in trying to thwart him, says…