The Sustainable Development Goals, recently agreed at the UN, will guide global development efforts for the next 15 years. Will the new agenda replicate the success of the just-completed Millennium Development Goals, or do the SDGs ask too much of developing countries?
Oct 1, 2015 , et al. urge leaders to eliminate harmful fisheries subsidies at the WTO meeting in December.
Sep 30, 2015 wants to leave our descendants no poverty, no greenhouse-gas emissions, and no biodiversity loss.
Sep 18, 2015 , et al. cite new technologies that can help meet long-term education, health, and poverty-reduction goals.
Sep 16, 2015 & warn world leaders that climate change could erase progress toward development goals.
Sep 15, 2015 calls the UN's Agenda for Sustainable Development the missed opportunity of a generation.
Mar 3, 2015 has a sobering message for politicians who ignore the risk of environmental catastrophe.
China has begun to build a parallel international order, centered on itself. If the European Union aids in its construction – even just by positioning itself on the fault line between China and the United States – it risks toppling key pillars of its own edifice and, eventually, collapsing altogether.
Now that the old rules governing macroeconomic cycles no longer seem to apply, it remains to be seen what might cause the next recession in the United States. But if recent history is our guide, the biggest threat stems not from the US Federal Reserve or any one sector of the economy, but rather from the White House.
Amid much discussion of the challenges facing the Chinese economy, the line-up of usual suspects typically excludes the most worrying scenario of all: popular unrest. While skeptics would contend that widespread protest against the regime and its policies is unlikely, events elsewhere suggest that China is not immune.
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