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Uncertainty Clouds Climate Deal as Nations Prepare to Sign Accord

April 22, 2016
More than 150 nations are expected to sign the Paris climate change accord that aims for net zero carbon emissions by 2100. Delays are expected from countries that must pursue legislative approval. Scientific research overwhelmingly supports that the world is warming due to human activities. The...

Xenophobia’s Threat to Prosperity

April 5, 2006
In the wake of the abortive acquisition of terminal operations at US ports by Dubai Ports World, Congress is considering more than thirty proposals to tighten the rules governing foreign investment in the US. Some of these proposals, writes Charles Prince, CEO of Citigroup, Inc., would spell...

Bridging the Roh-Bush Divide on Korea

May 14, 2003
The global focus on North Korea's nuclear program is justified, given the immediate threat that weapons could pose to the world. However, the weapons program needs to be seen in context: an economic crisis, a large-scale conventional military force, and a strained relationship with Japan,...

Tyre-some Efforts

September 29, 2009
Amid worries of protectionism, Obama’s tariff on China’s tires is almost insignificant in terms of size. Moreover, it is supported by the WTO agreement that allows countries to seek relief, albeit temporary, from the damage Chinese imports can cause to local industries. What most critics seem to be...

Outsourcing, Turned Inside Out

April 11, 2004
While most Americans today have heard about and many already been alarmed by the outsourcing of jobs overseas, some others might not be as worried; those include the employees of South Korean semiconductor company Samsung in Austin, Texas. The company just announced that it would pump another $500...

Lessons Obama Can Learn from the Wily North Korean

November 26, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will enter office on January 20 with multiple security dilemmas around the globe clamoring for attention. Impoverished North Korea, with its nuclear weapons program and ruled by a ruthless dictator, is one security matter that should be on the top of his list, argues...

Why Fighting Climate Change May Help the Economy, Not Hurt It

September 19, 2014
A common refrain among those who resist taking action on climate change is that costs and lost jobs from reducing reliance on coal and oil are too high. Studies from the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute, the Center for American Progress and the Global Commission on...

The New Colonialism: Foreign Investors Snap Up African Farmland

August 4, 2009
Expected population growth coupled with stable to dwindling agricultural land supply has led many an analyst to forecast an optimistic picture for agricultural investment for many years to come. The world needs more food. Throw in the high grain and food prices in 2008 with the resulting occasional...
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