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中美为拯救经济而斗争（二）

February 2, 2009
正当世界上其他的国家找寻领导它们走出经济危机的领袖国家时，怎样刺激中国及美国的经济增长已成为最为紧迫的任务。其他国家期望中美两国协调政策并尽其所能地解冻信贷、恢复稳定的增长和缓和失衡状况。在耶鲁全球在线该组文章的第二部分中，贸易分析师爱德华•格雷色（Edward Gresser）解释说，汇率是缓和全球增长及贸易流量骤变的方法之一。全球贸易失衡的一个来源是中国的固定汇率，它与美元挂钩，但中国政府不允许其像其他货币那样随贸易量、负债及储蓄率而波动。通常的情况是，由市场自行调节贸易失衡。美国消费者已突然不再光顾购物中心了，并且，随着中国工厂的关闭，中国工人必须考虑其他的职业和创业活动。...

Green Tax on Big Cars in China

August 20, 2008
Before and during the Olympics, the foreign press descended on China and complained about pollution. But China’s government has announced plans on a website to increase its vehicle excise tax to 25 percent for cars with capacity between 3 and 4 liters and to 40 percent for cars with capacity...

Biggest Growth Story? Outside the US

January 21, 2013
The gridlock in US Congress, its reliance on last-minute, short-term fixes for well-documented problems, is reducing confidence, threatening credit ratings and low interest rates for borrowers, worrying investors and decreasing tax revenues. So far, opposing parties in Congress refuse to compromise...

World Puts the Brakes on the Rush to Globalization

July 7, 2006
A backlash against globalization flourishes in countries that have benefited from active trade, including the US and China. Author Steven Pearlstein cites the failure of Doha, the polarized Mexican electorate and the US debate on immigration as evidence of the continued potency of the nation-state...

Why Epidemics Still Surprise Us

April 1, 2003
The world is not prepared for an outbreak of something like SARS, which has been plaguing much of Asia and is quickly spreading around the globe writes physician-turned-columnist David Ho. In this opinion piece in the New York Times, Ho says "the World Health Organization has been [...

Concern over GM Papayas Raised by Jao

September 16, 2003
Genetically modified foods are not only causing a stink in the US, Europe, and Africa. In Taiwan, legislators and environmentalists are crying foul over the discovery of two GM papaya plants found growing outside of an experimental field. One environmental activist argues that "the...

Learning to Speak Climate

August 7, 2008
The effects of climate change are slow and pernicious, suggests Thomas Friedman in his New York Times column. Too many anticipate massive disasters on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, striking New Orleans in 2005 with broken dams and flooding. But instead, notices of climate change already arrive...

Your Family Tree Is About to Grow

April 13, 2005
All humans share genetic markers with indigenous peoples around the globe. Geneticists, like Spencer Wells, are able to map these connections as a result of small genetic mutations which occur as a gene is handed down from generation to generation. Now, in partnership with the National Geographic...
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