UPCOMING EVENT
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
2:30 PM to 3:45 PM
Washington, DC
In his new book, Stephen Green explores how the global financial sector could respond to the current crisis in a way that aligns our human desires with our spiritual and psychological needs. On February 16, Green will join Senior Fellow E.J. Dionne, Jr. to share his insights on money and morality in the context of today's increasingly interdependent world economy. Read More
UPCOMING EVENT
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Washington, DC
On Wednesday, February 10, Carol Graham will explain how measures of happiness may be more novel barometers for well-being than other, more easily defined variables such as income or wealth. Fred Barbash, senior editor at POLITICO, will moderate the discussion. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Raj M. Desai and James Raymond Vreeland, January 26, 2010, The Brookings Institution
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, global cooperation is at the top of the agenda. As the governance of international organizations is at odds with the global distribution of economic power, this goal for Davos could prove difficult. Brookings expert Raj Desai and Georgetown University Professor James Raymond Vreeland discuss global governance issues among economic institutions and urge that regional organizations might be the best path for economic governance. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alex Evans, Bruce Jones and David Steven, January 26, 2010, The Brookings Institution
While global security threats have changed and multiplied dramatically since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international mechanisms for preventing and responding to these threats have lagged far behind. Alex Evans, Bruce Jones and David Steven explore the current trends in challenges to global security and stability, and suggest a new international framework for coping with the new set of global dynamics. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Arvind Panagariya, January 25, 2010, The Brookings Institution
On the eve of India's 60th anniversary as a republic, Arvind Panagariya reflects on the country's economic accomplishments. As an economy that showed remarkable resilience to the recent global financial crisis, India is still in need of economic reform to sustain and accelerate the pace of growth and poverty alleviation. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kemal Derviş and Eswar Prasad, January 14, 2010, The Brookings Institution
In this installment of the Status Report, a series of policy assessments of the Obama administration's first year, Kemal Derviş and Eswar Prasad give President Obama a B+ for what the new administration accomplished on economic policy during the global financial crisis, but temper the high grade with an incomplete for the big tasks that lie ahead. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, January 11, 2010
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
E.J. Dionne hosted a discussion with Rev. Jim Wallis, president and CEO of Sojourners, on his new book and how various religious traditions offer valuable correctives on how to get us on a firmer path to economic recovery. Wallis's book encourages Americans to look at how the economic crisis has changed the country. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Karen Dynan and Martin Neil Baily, January 11, 2010, The Brookings Institution
Karen Dynan and Martin Baily give the Obama administration an A- in its effort to restore U.S. economic confidence, offering credit for deft handling of the economic crisis but raising questions about whether the president has laid the foundation for sustained growth. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eswar Prasad and Ravi Kanbur, January 06, 2010, Financial Times
Inflation targeting has become the monetary policy framework of choice for emerging markets, yet it has come under sharp attack in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Brookings expert Eswar Prasad and Cornell University professor Ravi Kanbur discuss the multiple objectives facing central banks as they target inflation and caution against giving them too much responsibility. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eswar Prasad, December 22, 2009, Finance and Development, Volume 46, Number 4
Asian economies are seeing strong, stable growth and leading the world out of the recession. In the December 2009 issue of the IMF's Finance & Development, Eswar Prasad discusses how Asian emerging markets can improve their economic welfare by rebalancing growth toward domestic demand. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Naoki Abe, December 22, 2009, The Brookings Institution
In early 2010, economies around the world seem to be rebounding from the 2008-2009 recession. But CNAPS Guest Scholar Naoki Abe writes that high and chronic unemployment in the United States, Japan, China, and elsewhere will make the recovery from this recession slower than previous cases, and may present a long-term threat to economic growth. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kemal Derviş, December 21, 2009, FT.com
There is widespread consensus that global account imbalances contributed to the financial crisis of 2008-09, and there is even greater agreement on the need to rebalance world demand to support and sustain recovery. Kemal Derviş discusses the roles the United States and China play in the global economy and how developing economies can help cure the global economic imbalance. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ted Gayer, December 17, 2009, The Environmental Law Institute
In a recent presentation to the Environmental Law Institute, Ted Gayer outlined the underlying causes of the financial crisis and the economic outlook facing the United States in the months to come. Gayer concludes that by the end of 2010 a modest recovery will have occurred. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Tarik Yousef, December 15, 2009, The Riz Khan show, Al Jazeera English
As a guest on Al Jazeera English's Riz Khan show, Tarik Yousef notes that Dubai will retain its place as a hub for regional and international business well into the future, despite recent anxiety about the debt troubles of government-backed entities such as Dubai World. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Daniel Kaufmann, December 15, 2009, The Brookings Institution
With regard to U.S. financial institutions, there is the impression that insufficient attention is being paid to the challenges posed by the influence of vested interests, money in politics, legal corruption and capture. Daniel Kaufmann discusses the possible power shift from Washington to Wall Street and urges more action in the effort to reduce the influence of very large institutions over the financial system. Read More