The International Monetary Fund has warned China that debt-fueled growth is not sustainable. Chinese leaders continue to delay financial reforms for containing corporate debt that has accumulated at a rate with few precedents in recent history, according to Chris Miller, associate director of the...
While leaders of China agree to maintain stability, the country is witnessing a debt-fueled building boom
NEW HAVEN: As leaders of the Chinese Communist Party assembled at their secretive annual conclave at the Beidaihe seaside resort, one might...
The world is in a vicious cycle with increasing reliance on fossil fuels and related technological advances, in turn driving food production, population growth and climate change. New cereal varieties, combined with fertilizer processes requiring energy, tripled annual crop yields since 1950 to 4...
Chain reaction: Dwarf varieties of rice and other grains, left, require more fertilizer, fueling the Green Revolution in countries short on arable land; economic growth, reliance on fossil fuels and growing populations contribute to irreversible...
Many are quick to blame Islam in the aftermath of Boko Haram’s kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria.. The real danger is not the religion, but rather fundamentalists’ beliefs that girls should not be educated, argues Bina Shah in an article for Al Jazeera. Directing anger at all...
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Dario Caldara and Matteo Iacoviello
It has been four difficult years since the Doha Round of free trade talks began in 2001. The proponents of free trade now find themselves in retreat across the world. The Bush Administration has stuck to its free-trade guns, but finds itself increasingly unable to deal with a protectionist...
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More than 18,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in recent days to escape fighting in western Myanmar. The two nations share a border of 270 kilometers; Bangladesh is 90 percent Muslim, and Myanmar is about 90 percent Buddhist and 4 percent Muslim. Bangladesh, already hosting 400,000 Rohingya...
The collapse of the Doha trade talks suggest that the motivation for global cooperation is waning. The goal of the Doha round was to eliminate special subsidies and tariffs on agricultural products to boost economies of the world’s poorest nations. WTO rules require that all 153 members reach...
The demise of the Doha world trade talks because of splits between wealthy and developing nations suggests other global undertakings, from slashing greenhouse-gas emissions to ending food-export restrictions, also will...
Generations disagree about globalization's continuing influence over business routines. IBM conducted two polls among CEOs and students. In the CEO survey, most anticipated new centers of growth and influence to continue expanding beyond Europe and the US. But only 2 percent of the CEOs were...
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