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Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
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The Road to Asian Unity

NEW DELHI – Asia’s lack of institutions to ameliorate regional tensions is often lamented. But greater Asian unity may be arising by the bac…
Robin Niblett

Transatlantic Trade-Offs

LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …
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Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…

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Brahma Chellaney Jun. 19, 2013

Afghanistan’s Unavoidable Partition

NEW DELHI – The United States, still mired in a protracted war in Afghanistan that has exacted a staggering cost in blood and treasure, will…
Shashi Tharoor Jun. 14, 2013

India’s LBW

NEW DELHI – A casual reader of India’s newspapers for the last several weeks would be forgiven for wondering whether the country was suddenl…
Alexander Friedman Jun. 13, 2013

Copycat Capitalists

ZURICH – It is all too easy to envy China. At current growth rates, the Chinese economy will double in size in only nine years, raising an e…
Jeffrey Frankel Jun. 11, 2013

All Quiet on the Currency Front

CAMBRIDGE – The term “currency wars” is a catchy way of saying “competitive devaluation.” In the wake of the sharp fall in the value of the …
Zhang Monan Jun. 10, 2013

China’s Cold Eye on Hot Money

BEIJING – With China feeling the pressure from large-scale inflows of short-term capital, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE…
Paola Subacchi Jun. 7, 2013

Central Banking’s New Face

LONDON – A changing of the guard is underway at many of the world’s leading central banks. Haruhiko Kuroda is now installed as the governor …
Martin N. Baily, Richard Dobbs Jun. 7, 2013

Myanmar’s Moment?

YANGON – Interest in Myanmar (Burma) has become intense. Last month, Thein Sein became the first president of Myanmar to visit the White Hou…
Minghao Zhao Jun. 7, 2013

“Mao-Nixon” 2.0

BEIJING – The “Sunnylands summit,” which brings together Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama at a California estate t…
Brahma Chellaney Jun. 5, 2013

China’s Stealth Wars

NEW DELHI – China is subverting the status quo in the South and East China Seas, on its border with India, and even concerning international…
Yu Yongding May 31, 2013

China’s Flawed Balance-of-Payments Position

BEIJING – The balance-of-payments figures that China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) released in April should have trigger…

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