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China’s Increasing Interest in Africa: Benign but Hardly Altruistic

April 5, 2013, Yun Sun

Natural Gas Liquids: The “Other” Driver of the U.S. Oil and Gas Supply Resurgence

March 2013, Charles K. Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala

Ultimately, if we are going to have legitimacy of [the IMF and World Bank], if we are going to have future funding, contribution and buy-in by the wealthiest countries, which will continue to be emerging market economies, we need to see this kind of reform [of giving more voting power to emerging nations] take place.

March 29, 2013, Bessma Momani , Voice of America

[There is] a very serious effort to really pull [the BRICS nations] together despite the differences and differing interests. Yes, it will be difficult to put the [new development] bank in place. It will take a lot of time to accumulate the capital.

March 27, 2013, Colin I. Bradford, Bloomberg

BRICS and China’s Aspiration for the New “International Order”

March 25, 2013, Yun Sun

The Department of Energy’s Strategy for Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas

March 19, 2013, Charles K. Ebinger

Kenyans Head to the Polls - and a New Displacement Crisis?

February 26, 2013, Megan Bradley

[Without U.S. approval] the whole effort to make the IMF a more accountable, more legitimate institution worldwide cannot really be fulfilled.

February 15, 2013, Domenico Lombardi, Bloomberg

Energy and Climate: Black to Gold to Green

January 17, 2013, Charles K. Ebinger and Kevin Massy

New Paradigms for Financial Regulation: Emerging Market Perspectives

2012, Masahiro Kawai and Eswar Prasad, eds.

How Global Cities Adapt to Global Change

November 30, 2012, Alan Berube

There is no such thing as U.S. economy or Brazilian economy, but an interconnection of metropolitan areas. Three factors are necessary for them to be successful: infrastructure, education, innovation.

November 30, 2012, Bruce Katz, Valor Econômico (Portuguese)

No Global Safety Net if United States Jumps Off the Fiscal Cliff

November 30, 2012, Emilia Istrate

Global MetroMonitor 2012: Slowdown, Recovery, and Interdependence

November 30, 2012, Emilia Istrate and Carey Anne Nadeau

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November 30, 2012

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November 30, 2012

São Paulo Striving to Keep Global Economic Edge

November 27, 2012, Alan Berube

Metropolitan Trade: Cities Return to Their Roots in the Global Economy

November 26, 2012, Alan Berube and Joseph Parilla

The [International Monetary Fund's] executive board is really the policy-making body of the institution. If you have a stronger voice in the executive board, you end up affecting the policies and the program of the institution.

October 14, 2012, Domenico Lombardi, Bloomberg

The Metropolitan Revolution: Remarks at Central Houston 2012 Annual Meeting

October 5, 2012, Bruce Katz

Convergence, Interdependence, and Divergence in the World Economy

September 2012, Kemal Derviş

Golden Age of Gas

August 9, 2012, Rahool Panandiker and Urjit R. Patel

Isolation and Stalemate in the World Economy

July 2012, Domenico Lombardi

Brookings Doha Energy Forum 2012 Policy Paper

May 22, 2012

A World of Convergence

April 25, 2012, Kemal Derviş