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This past weekend in Washington DC, as the economic leaders of 187 countries gathered for the Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, the mood was ...
Beijing has become a master of the veiled threat -- using words that suggest ominous consequences but which are rarely backed up with specifics
We urge our partners gathering for the UN summit: help the most children by focusing on those who need help the most.
Millions of traditional American jobs have moved to China, and now China is thwarting our efforts to create new, renewable energy jobs to replace them.
As the economic crisis abates, there is an emerging consensus that a better safety net is needed to enable countries with good policies to insure against bad outcomes, especially when they are innocent bystanders.
We now know for sure that well-designed, collaborative policy actions by the G-20 economies can produce outcomes that will make everyone better off.
A month post-Summit and the G20 hangover is still hammering headlines across the country. Solidarity protests have attracted thousands between Halifax and Vancouver. Opposition MPs are foregoing summer recess.
The final statements of the June 2010 Canada meetings of the G-8 and the G-20 make for impressive reading. All is well then? Hardly. A closer look reveals major problems.
Much of the Canadian media has fixated on individual cases of police misconduct, debating whether or not individual officers abused their authority instead of pondering the systemic violation of peoples' rights.
There was consensus in Daejeon this week that Asia has emerged from the crisis as an economic powerhouse. While initially hit hard, Asia has been able to bounce back quickly and return to a strong growth path.
What countries does Obama talk about the most? Overall, there is still a systemic dearth of attention to the states that are doing the worst and sliding into failure.
Last weekend, the G8 leaders made a $5 billion commitment to maternal health. Combined with pledges from other donors, this will prevent 64,000 women from dying in childbirth and save 1.3 million young lives.
As my IMF colleagues and I gather here in Daejeon, South Korea with many luminaries from the region, we have an important opportunity to reinvent how the IMF and Asia collaborate in facing global economic challenges.
How Europe deals with fiscal and financial problems, how advanced countries proceed with fiscal consolidation, and how emerging countries rebalance their economies going forward will determine if we see recovery or stagnation.
The all-important July 4th holiday has delayed this week's Top 5 Comedy Videos post. But now that that's over, we can get down to business.
During the recent G20, more mixed messages emerged, with our President encouraging member nations to spend more to prop up their failing economies while his administration seeks to gut Social Security and Medicare at home.
