Climate Issues; Farm Bill; Ag Economy; Animal Agriculture; Food Safety; Trade; and Financial Reform
Updated: 2010-06-30 10:40:27
Climate Issues
John M. Broder reported in today’s New York Times that, “The senators who emerged from a White House meeting with President Obama on energy policy on Tuesday made no effort to paper over the large differences that remain between them.
“Democrats continued to insist on putting some sort of price on greenhouse gas emissions; Republicans [...]
By Jenny Aker - Over 7 million people are expected to face severe food shortages in Niger over the next few months. When I was there in early June, many villages in the far east of the country had not yet received rain, there had been an exodus of young men to Nigeria, Benin and Libya, and women were [...]
By Steve Rosenzweig - Capitol Hill put a spotlight on the process for developing therapies and other products for neglected diseases last week during a congressional hearing featuring CGD visiting fellow Tom Bollyky, but with mixed results.
I was encouraged to hear representatives from the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes for Health (NIH) and U.S. Agency for International [...]
By Liliana Rojas-Suarez - I heartily applaud the release of the G-20 Principles for Innovative Financial Inclusion (click and scroll down to see them). At a time of increased focus on financial sector regulation to reduce risk, it is crucial that we not lose sight of the fact that increasing access to appropriate financial services remains essential to reducing [...]
By Ben Leo - No surprises on the G-20 front. Deficits and financial sector reform dominated the headlines coming out of last weekend’s Toronto Summit. Development appeared largely as an afterthought. Even though my heart and head are hopelessly hitched to development policy, I think the focus was about right. Ensuring robust recoveries in G-20 nations will do more [...]
By Kimberly Ann Elliott - Yesterday I attended the launch of a new Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) study on the potential benefits of completing the Doha Round of trade negotiations. While I share that goal, and hope that Gary Hufbauer’s and Jeff Schott’s sharp analysis can help deliver it, it still seems a distant prospect. So, I [...]
By Vijaya Ramachandran - The McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of consulting giant McKinsey &Co, has just released its latest report, Lions on the Move: The Progress and Potential of African Economies. The report concludes that “Africa’s economic growth is creating substantial new business opportunities that are often overlooked by global companies. Consumer-facing industries, resources, agriculture, and [...]
By Kaci Farrell - Earlier this month, senior fellow Kim Elliott and I discussed ways to improve trade preference programs for the least developed countries (LDCs) with colleagues at the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, European Parliament, and British Parliament. What did we learn? Where do we go from here?
1. Reforming rules of origin is a feasible first [...]
By Lawrence MacDonald - Muthukumara Mani, an environmental economist at the World Bank, has written a moving account of the efforts underway in Orissa, one of India’s poorest states, to figure out what to do about climate change—not the future threat of climate change, but the impacts hitting poor people in Orissa NOW:
Lashed by heavy monsoon rains and [...]
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By Todd Moss - The blogosphere is abuzz following the June 13 New York Times report by James Risen that Afghanistan is a potential El Dorado of minerals:
The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan [...]
By Bill Savedoff - On reading “Global HIV/AIDS Policy in Transition” in the June 11 issue of Science, I was reminded of Al Gore’s catchwords for global warming (“An Inconvenient Truth”) because the authors – John Bongaarts and CGD Senior Fellow Mead Over – openly confront a very uncomfortable fact: money spent on treating AIDS patients saves far fewer [...]