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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 …
Anne-Marie Slaughter

The Coming Atlantic Century

PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …
Jaswant Singh

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…
Haruhiko Kuroda

India’s Growth Crossroads

MANILA – As the slowdown in the world’s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden w…

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Johan P. Mackenbach Jun. 17, 2013

Only the Poor Die Young

ROTTERDAM – People who are lower on the socioeconomic ladder (indicated by their level of education, occupation, or income) have shorter and…
Hans-Helmut Kotz Jun. 17, 2013

Europe’s Economic Groupthink

FRANKFURT – During the recent hearing on the constitutionality of the European Central Bank’s measures to prevent the eurozone from falling …
Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins Jun. 14, 2013

The Austerity Pandemic

NEW YORK – At this year’s International Monetary Fund/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, DC, the IMF urged European countries to ease…
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…
Barry Eichengreen Jun. 13, 2013

Lessons of a Greek Tragedy

ATHENS – A visit to Greece leaves many vivid impressions. There are, of course, the country’s rich history, abundance of archeological sites…
Yannos Papantoniou Jun. 12, 2013

Bismarck versus Bismarck

ATHENS – The centrality of Germany to Europe and, more widely, to world affairs has been amply, and often bloodily, demonstrated over many c…
Dani Rodrik Jun. 12, 2013

Europe’s Way Out

CAMBRIDGE – It seems that austerity is out of fashion in the eurozone – at least for the moment. The European Commission has given Spain, Fr…
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…

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