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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…
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 …
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…
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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Bob Ward Jun. 11, 2013

Climate Change by the Numbers

LONDON – Governments around the world have just received one of the most important scientific reports ever written. It provides the starkest…
Mahmoud Mohieldin Jun. 10, 2013

Financing the Next Development Agenda

WASHINGTON, DC – As the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, the United Nations is intensifying its efforts to …
Jeffrey D. Sachs Jun. 7, 2013

Sustainable Visions

NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is mobilizing global action around the great challenge of our time: sustainable development. It …
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…
Aryeh Neier Jun. 4, 2013

The Globalization of Justice

PARIS – When the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the United Nations Security Council 20 …
Antonio de Aguiar Patriota Jun. 3, 2013

Globalizing the Security Council

BRASILIA – The 1945 United Nations Charter represented a historic breakthrough in the pursuit of peace on a multilateral basis. At the end o…
Agnes Binagwaho May 31, 2013

Diet and Growth

KIGALI – There is no greater hindrance to a country’s long-term economic development than childhood undernourishment. When a growing body do…
Michel Rocard May 30, 2013

What Is the International Community?

PARIS – Despite the frequency with which the phrase “international community” is invoked, its precise meaning – like its origins – is diffic…
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…
Joseph E. Stiglitz May 6, 2013

Lives versus Profits

NEW YORK – The United States Supreme Court recently began deliberations in a case that highlights a deeply problematic issue concerning inte…

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