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Does income inequality increase economic and financial instability?
As countries struggle to reduce their budget deficits, governments are turning to tax increases. Recent research shows that fiscal policy can also play a key role in stabilizing G20 countries’ economies and financial systems by...
Oil Spills in Nigeria Highlight Lack of Legal Accountability
In the summer of 2010, one news story dominated headlines in America. The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oilrig and the subsequent leaking oil from the Macondo well had a stranglehold on the news cycle. It was an ecological...
Airports and Butterflies
Airports are monuments to globalization. It is not only the overtly globalizing function of airports – to service the planes which traverse the globe in vast numbers – but the garish shop fronts hawking omnipresent global brands. As...
Rethinking Turkey
In the past year or so, Turkey’s major headlines in the international press were about its fallout with Israel, its brokerage of a nuclear deal with Iran, or its warming to Russia on energy questions. Some seasoned Eurocrats may have...
Zimbabwe Diamond Sales Highlight Strengths and Weaknesses in International Law
Diamonds are forever, but international law is always changing. Zimbabwe recently tested the flexibility of international agreements by asserting that it would sell stockpiled diamonds on the open market in defiance of the United Nations-...
Convention on Biological Diversity a Ten Year Failure
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is another of the world’s multilateral environmental institutions that has resolutely failed to achieve its stated purpose. Now less than two months away from the tenth meeting of the Conference...
Population Politics and National Elections
One of the characteristics of the current period in human history is a rapidly expanding global population. Around the time of Napoleon there were around one billion of people in the world; now the total population is rapidly nearing seven billion...
Is China Really So Different?
By Rajeev Sibal I couldn’t help but write about China in my blog post. Having recently returned from our GG2020 Shanghai session, I have an entirely new impression of the country. In some ways my expectations were exceeded but...
Let's be honest: Oil really is disgusting
Oil is a very useful but truly disgusting substance. Fossil fuels have been foundational to modernity and globalization, but the addiction to oil has had hideous consequences, in the form of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants, immense...
The Interim REDD+ Partnership: Light at the end of the Screw Ups?
As the Interim REDD+ Partnership process reconvenes in Bonn this week in conjunction with the latest UN Climate Change Conference (you can watch the proceedings here), information continues to emerge about the extent to which the last meeting held...
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Does income inequality increase economic and financial instability?
William Oman - September 6th, 2010
William Oman - September 6th, 2010
