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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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February 14, 2007
China
Highly recommended: the World Bank’s latest China Quarterly.
What jumped out at me in the latest quarterly from the World Bank’s Beijing office?First, the data showing that labor income is falling as a share of Chinese GDP. Moreover, its fall seems to have …
March 19, 2015
Human Rights
Removing the Silos Around Girls’ Education, National Security, and Child Marriage
In the lead up to the announcement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in September, I had the opportunity to host a conversation with Julia Gillard, chair of the Global Partnership for Education…
October 18, 2012
India
On Cybersecurity, India Begins to Embrace the Private Sector
Cherian Samuel is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in Delhi, India. Monday, October 15 saw the release of the Government of India’s Recommendations of the Joint …
September 18, 2005
United States
Synthetic CDOs, China and Systemic Risk
I suspect the stock of outstanding synthetic credit derivatives -- $ 1500 b in synthetic CDOs in 2004 v. $300 b or so in 2001, according to Mark Whitehouse of the Wall Street Journal -- is the only t…
February 28, 2006
Financial Markets
Things that keep the President of the New York Fed up at night
The current account deficit, obviously. NY Fed President Geithner isn't quite in the same place as Bernanke, at least in Bernanke's White House incarnation.And credit derivatives. Particularly i…