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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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January 1, 1998
Competitiveness
Exporting U.S. High Tech, Facts & Fiction About the Globalization of Industrial R&D
Overview The United States is a country of innovators. Its higher education system and entrepreneurs are respected worldwide for their contribution to research and development. Yet in many domains…
March 1, 1998
Japan
The Tests of War and the Strains of Peace
Overview The U.S.-Japan security alliance is at a crossroads. The outcome of certain decisions to be made in 1998_the Japanese Diet's vote on legislation necessary to implement the new U.S.-Japan …
June 10, 1999
Financial Markets
Private Capital Flows, Emerging Economies, and International Financial Architecture
Overview Firms and development strategies based on a rear-view mirror view will leave companies, projects, and entrepreneurs scrambling for capital access. The control of capital in the developed …
October 7, 1999
Trade
The Diminishing Returns to Export-Led Growth
Overview In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a tremendous sea-change in development policy thinking, among both academic economists and policymakers. The inward-oriented, import-substitution strateg…
November 17, 1999
Trade
Who Decides? Congress and the Debate Over Trade Policy in 1934 and 1974
Introduction Governor Adlai E. Stevenson thought trade policy was boring; he once described it as one field where the greatest need is for fresh clichés. He had a point. In the long period that th…