Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 25th, 2012 No Comments »
- Shahid Javed Burki
Shahid Javed Burki, former Finance Minister of Pakistan and Vice President of the World Bank, is currently Chairman of the Institute of Public Policy in Lahore.
ISLAMABAD – Can Muslim governments free themselves from their countries’ powerful militaries and establish civilian control comparable to that found in liberal democracies? [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 24th, 2012 No Comments »
- Martin Tobias
Martin Tobias is a public-health physician in Wellington, New Zealand.
WELLINGTON – Albert Einstein is reputed to have said that “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Yet the current debate about the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 24th, 2012 No Comments »
- Mohammed Musa Mahmodi
Mohammad Musa Mahmodi is Executive Director of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
KABUL – Recently, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in Kudoz province reported the rescue of a young woman who had been imprisoned in her in-laws’ dungeon for seven months. Fifteen-year-old Sahar Gul was forced [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 23rd, 2012 No Comments »
- Mohamed A. El-Erian
Mohamed A. El-Erian is CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, and author of When Markets Collide.
NEWPORT BEACH – A year ago, Egyptians of all ages and religions took to the streets and, in just 18 days of relatively peaceful protests, removed a regime that had ruled over them with an iron [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 20th, 2012 No Comments »
- Jeffrey Frankel
Jeffrey Frankel is Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University.
BERN – Emerging markets have performed amazingly well over the last seven years. In many cases, they have far outperformed the advanced industrialized countries in terms of economic growth, debt-to-GDP ratios, countercyclical fiscal policy, and assessments by ratings [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 20th, 2012 1 Comment »
- Haruhiko Kuroda
Haruhiko Kuroda is President of the Asian Development Bank.
MANILA – This is the year of the “Black Water Dragon,” an astrological cycle that indicates change, but with a measure of calm, sensibility, and prudence. The people and governments of Asia certainly hope that this proves to be the case, but [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 19th, 2012 No Comments »
- Mohamed A. El-Erian
Mohamed A. El-Erian is CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, and author of When Markets Collide.
NEWPORT BEACH – More than three years after the global financial crisis, the world still has a nasty plumbing problem. Credit pipes remain clogged, and only central banks are working to clear them. But their [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 19th, 2012 No Comments »
- Christopher R. Hill
Christopher R. Hill, former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, was US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Macedonia, and Poland, US special envoy for Kosovo, a negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accords, and chief US negotiator with North Korea from 2005-2009. He is now Dean of [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 19th, 2012 No Comments »
- Kemal Dervi?
Kemal Dervi?, a former minister of economics in Turkey, administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and vice president of the World Bank, is currently Vice President of the Brookings Institution.
WASHINGTON, DC – Despite years of official talk about addressing global current-account imbalances, they remained one of the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 18th, 2012 No Comments »
- Wadah Khanfar
Wadah Khanfar is former Director-General of Al Jazeera, and is currently Chairman of The Sharq Forum, an NGO promoting reform across the Arab world.
CAIRO – Last year’s events in Egypt and Tunisia drew the curtain on a tottering old order and delivered much of the Arab world into a [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 17th, 2012 No Comments »
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning in the US State Department (2009-2011), is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
PRINCETON – The West and Iran are playing a dangerous game. In the past ten days, Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz and warned [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 16th, 2012 No Comments »
- Ana Palacio
Ana Palacio is a former Spanish foreign minister and former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank.
MADRID – While the world anxiously awaits the climax of the eurozone drama, its leaders’ behavior resembles the political equivalent of what physicists call “Brownian motion,” with officials bouncing randomly from [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 13th, 2012 No Comments »
- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, is the author of The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy.
CAMBRIDGE – The world economy is entering a new phase, in which achieving global cooperation will become increasingly difficult. The United States and the European Union, now [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 13th, 2012 No Comments »
- Justin Yifu Lin and Apurva Sanghi
Justin Yifu Lin is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. Apurva Sanghi is a World Bank senior economist and team leader of the report Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: the Economics of Effective Prevention.
WASHINGTON, DC – Despite all of the gloomy economic news [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 12th, 2012 No Comments »
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, a Nobel laureate in economics, and the author of Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy.
KOLKATA – The year 2011 will be remembered as the time when many ever-optimistic Americans began to give up hope. President John F. [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 10th, 2012 No Comments »
- Kemal Dervi?
Kemal Dervi?, a former minister of economics in Turkey, administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and vice president of the World Bank, is currently Vice President of the Brookings Institution.
WASHINGTON, DC – Despite years of official talk about addressing global current-account imbalances, they remained one of the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 10th, 2012 No Comments »
- Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney, a professor of strategic studies at the independent Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, is the author of Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan.
NEW DELHI – The launch of trilateral strategic consultations among the United States, India, and Japan, and their decision to hold joint [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 9th, 2012 No Comments »
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning in the US State Department (2009-2011), is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
PRINCETON – The West and Iran are playing a dangerous game. In the past ten days, Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz and warned [...]