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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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August 29, 2018
Australia
Australia’s New Brutal Politics—Not New, and Not That Brutal
Tom Switzer is executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney and a presenter at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. As Australia welcomes Scott Morrison a…
March 21, 2014
Development
Will Justice Be Part of the Post-2015 Development Agenda?
This piece is part of an ongoing Development Channel series on global justice and development. Whether or not justice will be part of the world’s post-2015 global development agenda remains an open …
December 1, 2008
Monetary Policy
Bretton Woods 2 and the current crisis: any link?
Last week, I attended a conference on international financial reform. These kinds of conferences don’t really produce consensus; there is no need to agree on anything. But there was a sense -- a…
April 15, 2007
United States
Unimpressive (the results of the IMF’s experiment with multilateral consultation)
Macro Man asked the IMF to sort out a world where the US current account deficit is increasingly financed by the growth in emerging market reserves (and the expansion of a few investment funds). …
August 9, 2007
China
The balance of financial terror, circa August 9, 2007
Back in early 2004, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers highlighted the emergence of what he termed the "balance of financial terror." China – and others – relied on the US for demand that t…