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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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October 1, 2014
India
Governance in India: Infrastructure
After decades of underinvestment and mismanagement, India’s infrastructure is posing a significant threat to its economic growth.
October 16, 2014
Europe
When meetings matter—The World Bank and IMF Convene
There are many reasons cited for this week’s market turndown and risk pullback, including concerns about global growth, Ebola, turmoil in the Middle East, and excessive investor comfort from easy mon…
April 14, 2005
Monetary Policy
Reserves to protect against everything short of the Apocalypse
That quote comes from the IMF’s chief economist in today’s Financial Times:A number of emerging markets, especially in Emerging Asia, have built up reserves to protect against everything short of the…
December 15, 2009
Financial Markets
Top Economists Craft Sweeping Proposals for Financial Reform
As Congress debates financial regulation reform, fifteen top economists have developed a set of guiding regulatory principles in a series of papers distributed by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for …
April 29, 2009
Financial Markets
Why were arguments against taking on risk discounted heavily during the boom?
Barry Eichengreen writes exceptionally well: "THE GREAT Credit Crisis has cast into doubt much of what we thought we knew about economics. We thought that monetary policy had tamed the business cycl…