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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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December 30, 2015
Saudi Arabia
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2015
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
May 11, 2009
Emerging Markets
Sovereign bailout funds, sovereign development funds, sovereign wealth funds, royal wealth funds …
The classic sovereign wealth fund was an institution that invested a country’s surplus foreign exchange (whether from the buildup of “spare” foreign exchange reserves at the central bank or from the …
February 5, 2010
India
India’s Rise: The Role of the Diaspora
My long-standing friendship with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began when we were both students in Cambridge in the mid-1950s. One personal anecdote in particular underlines dramatically why the Indi…
May 9, 2016
Asia
Five Questions About Punjab’s Protection of Women Against Violence Bill
The Five Questions Series is a forum for scholars, government officials, civil society leaders, and foreign policy practitioners to provide timely analysis of new developments related to the advancem…
February 10, 2008
Capital Flows
SWFs to IMF: mind your own business, not ours …
It doesn’t seem like the IMF’s code of conduct for sovereign wealth funds is going anywhere. The power brokers in today’s global financial system argue that they are already commercially-motivated…