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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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October 15, 2012
Development
How Well Do Countries Fulfill Economic and Social Rights?
The UN Human Rights Council will hold its 14th Universal Periodic Review this month to evaluate human rights practices in fourteen member states from across the globe. Countries are bound under inte…
September 20, 2012
Development
Emerging Voices: Alicia Ely Yamin on Defining the Next Set of Global Development Goals
Emerging Voices features regular contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Alicia Ely Yamin, le…
October 22, 2012
Health
Holding Countries Accountable for Social and Economic Rights
Last week I introduced the SERF Index, a new measurement tool my colleagues Susan Randolph, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and I have built to evaluate social and economic rights fulfillment. The new index shed…
September 25, 2012
Development
Question of the Week: The Millennium Development Goals
What impact have the Millennium Development Goals had, and what should follow them after they expire? Question of the Week posts review important questions and controversies in global development b…
December 19, 2007
China
The alliance between China’s (nominally) communist government and Wall Street deepens …
The China investment corporation (the CIC) is investing $5b in Morgan Stanley, taking a 9.9% stake.That is a bit of a surprise, at least to me. After the CIC's (mark to market) losses on Blackstone…