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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.
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May 16, 2017
Americas
The Politics of Latin America’s Middle Income Trap
Many of Latin America’s largest economies are stuck in the so-called “middle-income trap,” with slowing productivity growth making it unlikely that they will catch up to the top global economies in t…
May 12, 2017
Brazil
Will 2018 Bring a Mandate for Change in Brazil?
It has been a tough month in Brasilia. The release of the list of 98 senior politicians implicated in the Lava Jato investigation confirmed that corruption runs broad and deep across the political la…
April 19, 2017
Brazil
Rumblings of a Constitutional Assembly in Brazil
Brazil remains in ferment. The massive Lava Jato investigation turned three years old last month, and this week marked the one-year anniversary of the Chamber of Deputies’ vote to impeach Dilma Rouss…
October 31, 2011
China
The Future of International Liquidity and the Role of China
Overview Financial crises in the 1930s and 1970s showed the world that economic instability results when demand for international liquidity allows a small number of countries to run up massive deb…
January 11, 2017
Brazil
The Even Scarier Thing About Brazil’s Prison Violence
Prison violence has taken the lives of more than one hundred Brazilian prisoners since the beginning of the year. While the recent killings have been gruesome and especially numerous, they are a cont…
