Home > You are at: News/Analysis, Page 6 ('06) | Previous | Next Emerging markets--Spot the difference: Investors are becoming more selective about developing-world assets, The Economist (via Views Wire), 7 Jul 06 (Related graphic: Emerging stockmkts capitalization) World trade--Under attack: America is being blamed for the impasse in global trade talks. Unfair? Up to a point, The Economist, 6 Jul 06 Coffee/tea break: The world's game -- Why soccer rules the world: Excerpts from The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup (2006), National Geographic, Jun '06 (Link to: Official site--Advancing to the Final | World ranking) Kofi Annan: How we envy the World Cup -- You could even say it's more universal than the UN. FIFA has 207 members; we have only 191, Bild am Sonntag (Germany)[via UN site], 4 Jun 06 Coffee/tea break: Soccer and emerging markets -- We look at the relationship bet. soccer and the economy in emerging markets, ABN AMRO [pdf], 11 May 06 (Link to: Soccernomics 2006, pt.1) Coffee/tea break: World Cup and Economics -- A companion guide w/c incl essays by fmr German Foreign Min Fischer, UK Chancellor Brown, fmr Brazil CB Gov Fraga, England Captain Beckham and many others, Goldman Sachs, May '06 Coffee/tea break: Branko Milanovic -- Learning globalization from football: It's not only world's most popular sport,but also probably its most globalized profession, Proj Synd via The Edge (Malaysia), 21 Feb 06 Robert Frank: How much is that laptop? It depends on color of case. And that's fair--Price discrimination means charging some more than others for essentially same product. Is it a bad thing?, NYTimes (free registr reqd), 6 Jul 06 Editorial: Photo finish in Mexico--The electoral authority, & not can- didates, must determine who won pres'l election, Wash. Post (free registr reqd), 4 Jul 06 (Related: OECD Observer graphic--Raising Mexico's potential) William Easterly: The axis of altruism -- 4 ways to spend $60 billion wisely: In world of philanthropy, development & foreign aid, it's not as easy as it sounds, Washington Post (free registr. req'd), 2 Jul 06 Susan Schwab: More trade, less poverty -- US put forward an offer last fall to make meaningful cuts in trade-distorting domestic agric supports if others would reciprocate, WSJ (via USTR site), 29 Jun 06 (Link to: Geneva statement of USTR/Agri, 1 Jul; & EU Trade Q&A, 3 Jul) Trade ministers give up on compromise: Geneva conference collapses over agric tariffs & subsidies, by P Blustein, Washington Post (free registr reqd), 2 Jul 06; and Agricultural subsidies: Graphic--The Economist, 29 Jun 06 | OECD govts' support to farmers, 21 Jun 06; and Policy Brief -- Tackling agric trade [pdf], Nov '05 Moises Naim: Megaplayers vs. micropowers--The proliferation of new microplayers capable of constraining their mega-sized rivals is a rising trend everywhere, Foreign Policy, Jul-Aug '06 Middle East 'learns oil-boom lesson': The region has learned lessons from past & is enjoying current boom w/ restraint, says World Bank, BBC News, 29 Jun 06 (Link to: WB--Mideast/N Africa Econ Dev & Prospects) Hal Varian: Looking for incentives that will prompt Americans to save more--One such plan has long history as Amer. institution. They were invented by none other than Benjamin Franklin, NYT(via UC Berke- ley site), 29 Jun 06 South Asia can cut poverty, says World Bank: The no. of S Asians living in poverty could drop by two-thirds in less than 10 years, Zee News (India), 26 Jun 06 (Link to: WB--Econ Growth in South Asia) S Sechler & A Tutwiler: Trading up -- A new study argues that, w/ 2 modest changes,deal on the table in Geneva could bring about greater benefits for poor nations, NYT(via Intl Food Pol Res Inst), 26 Jun 06 Free trade can be too free: Economist Joseph Stiglitz makes the case against unfettered globalization, by P Coy, Business Week, 26 Jun-3 Jul 06 'Uncertainty' for emerging markets: Uncertainty could deepen if global slowdown grips nations dependent on commodities, Bank for Intl Settlem. says, Reuters via Fin24 (S Africa), 26 Jun 06 (Link to: BIS--Issues in emerging mkts) Fred Bergsten: What's a Treasury Secretary to do? -- An agenda for Henry Paulson, here and abroad, Washington Post (free registr reqd), 26 Jun 06 Cost of living ranks reflect global market changes: Moscow replaces Tokyo as most expensive city with Seoul knocking it to third place, followed by Hong Kong and London, Mercer HR Cons., 26 Jun 06 The global force called the Gates Foundation: The philanthropy's impact, already immense, will be magnified by Buffett's billions, by C Loomis, Fortune, 25 Jun 06 (Link to: Gates Foundation) Jeffrey Sachs: Time for private action to fight poverty--We need not wait for the politicians, Project Syndicate via Namibian, 24 Jun 06 Austan Goolsbee: Legislate learning English? If only it were so easy--Immigrants already have strong incentive to learn English.Yet millions still do not know it. Why not?, NYT (via U Chicago site, pdf), 22 Jun 06 Africa's economy -- A glimmer of light at last?: Sub-Saharan economies are growing faster but are they really getting stronger?, The Economist, 22 Jun 06 Financial Market Update: The rise in risk aversion that gripped global markets led to sharp correction in emerging mkt asset prices. Does it represent reassessment of emerging mkt fundamentals?, by Global Markets Anal. Div., posted by IMF 22 Jun 06 [pdf] East Asia needs more diversified finance, says World Bank: A new report says there is a need to further develop securities markets, Reuters, 22 Jun 06 (Link to: WB -- E Asian Finance: The road to robust markets) Advice to invest less in US bonds: Foreigners can do better, Summers says, by P Blustein, Washington Post (free registr. req'd), 22 Jun 06 (Link to: Ctr Glob Dev -- Diversify out of US Treasury bills) Adam Lerrick: Audit the World Bank's performance--It has changed name of its Operations Eval Dept to Indep Eval Grp, but it doesn't mean to change its ways, Cato Inst Econ Devel Bul, 20 Jun 06 [pdf] Amartya Sen: The challenges of development--If democracy is 'govt by discussion'-to use old Millian phrase-central banking may well in- volve more than banking, Central Banks and Challenge of Develop- ment (2006), posted by BIS 19 Jun [pdf] Bad girl interrupted: Angelina Jolie's charity work has won wide coverage of plight of poor children in Third World. It has also averted her own image disaster, by M Swibel, Forbes, 19 Jun-3 Jul 06; and Rob Long: Using your star power -- TO: Jolie, Penn & Pitt; RE: Planet Hollywood--The line between foreign policy and show biz is thin. Pick your roles carefully, Foreign Policy, May-Jun '06 B Lomborg: Choosing our collective priorities--To shorten list of chal- lenges facing world requires debate about what we need to do first, Proj Synd via Taipei Times, 19 Jun 06 (in this bilingual site, a 'lan- guage pack installation' sign may pop up-pls.select "cancel") (Link to: Georgetown--Copenhagen Consensus '06) Ralf Dahrendorf: Universities -- Renaissance or decay?: Univ. in Europe, Japan & developing world need to loosen rigid structures and habits, Proj Synd/Straits Times(Sing.) via YTL Com.(Malay), 18 Jun 06 A new trade envoy, with a battle on her hands: Not many new Cabi- net members take office w/ deadline of six weeks to succeed or fail in their jobs, by S Weisman, NYTimes (free registr. req'd), 16 Jun 06 Edwin Truman: Issues where IMF must show more substance (letter to editor), Fin.Times(via IIE site), 18 Apr 06 (Link to: External eval. report on Indep.Eval.Ofc, w/ exec sum, posted by IMF 15 Jun; and Exec Board discussion) Slow! Govt obstacles ahead: LatAm's public sector is not spending enough on transport, electricity & water, but nor is it allowing private investors to help out, The Economist, 15 Jun 06 (Related: LatAm Corporate Governance Roundtable) Portfolio: Bubble, bubble, who's in trouble? -- Worried investors are hunting for safe havens. But w/ so many bubbles about, it's anyone's guess w/c way to turn, by M Mandel, Business Week, 15 Jun 06 David Wessel: US wages face glut of pressures -- Has emergence of China & India as capitalist economies changed prospects for Amer. workers?, Wall Street Journal, 15 Jun 06 ; Alan Blinder: Offshoring--The next industrial revolution?: 'Pres Bush is on an 8-day tour of Asia. He's visiting American jobs'-- David Lettermen, Foreign Affairs, Mar-Apr '06[via Princeton site,pdf]); and Daniel Pink: Revenge of right brain -- Want to get ahead today? For- get what your parents told you. Instead, do something foreigners can't do cheaper. Something computers can't do faster, Wired, Feb '05 Robert Shiller: Current market weakness is much more than a policy issue--What news is moving the markets?, Proj Syndicate via Taipei Times, 15 Jun 06 (in this bilingual site, a 'language pack installation' sign may pop up-pls. select "cancel") Nicholas Kristof: Foreign aid has flaws. So what?--Don't tell anyone, but a dirty little secret within the foreign aid world is that aid doesn't work very well, NYTimes (via CGDev site, pdf), 13 Jun 06 John Whalley: Asian nations have not lost out to China--Speculation prior to termination of textile quotas at end-'04 had been that large increases of Chinese exports would ensue, Fin Express (India)[via Ctr Intl Gov Innov site], 13 Jun 06 In Africa, China trade brings growth, unease: Asian giant's appetite for raw materials, markets has some questioning its impact on conti- nent, by C Timberg, Washington Post (free registr. req'd), 13 Jun 06 The drive to compete: India's once woeful manufacturing sector is starting to pick up steam, by M Schuman, Time, 12 Jun 06 (Related: World Economic Forum on East Asia) The Fed--No more hints or whispers: Fed Chmn Bernanke's straight style forces Wall St. to think for itself, by C Yang, Business Week, 12-19 Jun 06 Niall Ferguson: Reasons to worry -- Why you could be excused for feeling a little uneasy about US's large trade deficit & Asian nations holding so many US Treasuries, NYT (free registr reqd), 11 Jun 06 OECD says 'trade deal' worth $44 bln: If levels of global trade tariffs & subsidies are cut in half, it could contribute extra $44 bln to world econ, BBC News, 9 Jun 06 (Link to: Perspectives on devel. issues in intl trade, posted by OECD 7 Jun) Mouse & wo/man: L Lessig & R McChesney -- No tolls on Internet: Congress is debating the most important public policy you may never have heard of-'network neutrality', WashPost(free registr reqd), 8 Jun 06 Portfolio: A nasty spillage -- Emerging economies are in better shape than their stockmarkets, The Economist, 8 Jun 06 Economists say budget deficit is top priority for USTreas.Secy.nomi- nee, by M Phillips, Wall Street Journal, 8 Jun 06 (incl link to results of economic forecasting survey of 44 econ. in Excel format) Kenneth Rogoff: Russia's skeptical G8 partners--Maybe best plan is simply to let vodka flow & hope for a round of smiles in photo ops, Project Syndicate via Rzeczpospolita (Poland), 8 Jun 06 Robert Frank: Energy policy is far too complicated to be left to politi- cians -- 'First, do no harm.' No one disputes this is sound advice, not just for physicians, New York Times (free registr. req'd), 8 Jun 06 Bradford DeLong: Myth of 'ownership society' -- Give people the incentives to plan for their future, advocates argue, & they will, Proj Synd via Taipei Times, 6 Jun 06 (in this bilingual site, a 'language pack installation' sign may pop up-pls. select "cancel") Martin Feldstein: Tradeable gasoline rights -- Aversion to higher gas tax is why tougher mileage standards for new cars is back on legis. table. A system of tradeable rights would be better, Wall St J(via Har- vard site), 5 Jun 06 Peter Mandelson: NGOs on world trade talks (letter to editor)--The views expressed in the ad in your paper are misleading, Fin.Times(via EC site), 5 Jun 06 (Link to: NGOs--'Not in our name' ad in FT) ; Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva: Time to get serious about agric. subsidies--This three-way bargain among US, EU & devel. nations cannot be seen as an equilateral triangle, IHTrib (via Brz. Embassy UK), 2 Jun 06 (Link to: G20 devel. nations in agric.); and Oxfam: World leaders--Heroes or zeroes?: Superheroes could jump tall buildings and save entire cities, but could they rescue the current world trade talks?, 18 May 06 (Link to: A reply to Mandelson; Open letter to Oxfam[pdf]; & A Recipe for Disaster) Gregory Mankiw: A letter to Ben Bernanke -- Stay away from issues that have a trifecta of problems - those w/c are distant from monetary policy, controversial among economists, & politically divisive, Amer. Econ Rev (via Harvard site, pdf), May '06 Gregory Mankiw: Mr. Paulson's challenge--If he wants to leave the nation's finances in better shape than he found them, his main job will be to focus attention on problem, Wall St J (via Harvard site, pdf), 31 May 06 Is globalization here to stay?: Will today's globalization prove to be more durable than late 19th c. version, w/c collapsed in few mos. in 1914?, IMF Book Forum, 29 Mar 06(Link to: Bk sum.--WashPost & Booklist[pdf]) Diana Farrell: US offshoring -- Small steps to make it win-win: Policymakers should invest in additional measures to help workers move bet. jobs, Economists' Voice (via McKinsey site, pdf), Mar '06 Joseph Stiglitz: Social justice and global trade--The history of recent trade meetings-from Seattle to Doha to Cancun to Hong Kong-shows that something is wrong w/ intl trade, Far Eastern Econ Rev (HK)[via Columbia site, pdf], Mar '06 P Yun & G Shin: Introduction to North Korea:2005 & Beyond[pdf]-- 10 years ago, it was fashionable in Wash.& Seoul to predict imminent collapse of NKor's pol/econ systems, posted by Brookings Inst 1 Mar 06 [via Stanford site] Nook & cranny: What could bring globalization down? -- Q&A with Niall Ferguson, HBS Working Knowledge, May '05 (Link to: Sink- ing globalization, Foreign Affairs[via author's site, pdf 1.74MB]) Nook & cranny: Supply, demand - and deadline!--A workshop aims to improve economic reporting by providing the basics & an innova- tive, high-pressure test run, The Region (Minneapolis Fed), Sep '04 << Previous Home Next >> Copyright (c) 2001-2008 Leonardo L. 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