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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…
Hans-Werner Sinn

The Collateral Damage of Europe’s Rescue

MUNICH – The eurozone is now in its sixth year of crisis – and of efforts by the European Central Bank and the international community to en…
Howard Davies

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…
Mahmoud Mohieldin

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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Erik Solheim May 16, 2013

A New Deal for Fragile States

PARIS – Today, roughly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states. Despite vast sums of money spent…
Gordon Conway Apr. 2, 2013

Can We Feed the World?

LONDON – In the 1960’s, the Green Revolution – which included the development of high-yielding crop varieties, the expansion of irrigation i…
Otaviano Canuto Mar. 12, 2013

Currency War and Peace

WASHINGTON, DC – Much of the hype surrounding last month’s meeting in Moscow of G-20 finance ministers and central bankers was dedicated to …
Joseph E. Stiglitz Feb. 6, 2013

Complacency in a Leaderless World

DAVOS – The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos has lost some of its pre-crisis panache. After all, before the meltdown in 2008, …
Frank Schäffler, Norbert F. Tofall Aug. 16, 2012

Calling the Big Banks’ Bluff

BERLIN – The G-20’s decision in November 2008 not to let any systemically relevant bank perish may have seemed wise at the time, given the t…
Julia Gillard, Lee Myung-bak Jun. 17, 2012

The Gospel of Growth

CANBERRA/SEOUL – Almost four years after the start of the global financial crisis, the world economy remains fragile and unemployment is una…
Volker Perthes Jun. 12, 2012

When Democracies Collide

BERLIN – The multipolar nature of today’s international system will again be on display at the upcoming G-20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. Gl…
Javier Solana May 17, 2012

Russia Stays Home

MADRID – Just three days before his return to the Kremlin as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin met behind closed doors at his residence in …
Andrew Sheng Oct. 31, 2011

The Coming Global Credit Glut

HONG KONG – With world leaders meeting at the end of this week at the G-20 summit in Cannes, France, the next economic minefield that they w…
Kevin P. Gallagher, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Jose Antonio Ocampo Oct. 30, 2011

The G-20’s Helpful Silence on Capital Controls

NEW YORK – When French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the reins as host of this year’s G-20 summit, to be held in Cannes on November 3-4, he…

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