The leadership of the World Bank
Here is a thought about the proposed new president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick. He is expected to take over from Paul Wolfowitz, who is being driven out of […]
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Why global accountability matters
By Richard Laming This article is a response to the paper “In the name of the people”, by Titus Alexander, chair of Charter 99. You can read the original paper
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Fear of frying
Halloween is the time of year for frightening people, so Sir Nicholas Stern chose the right moment to publish his report on the threat of global warming. He explains that
Succeeding revolutions
By Ian Hackett In these early years of the 21st century, we are witnessing the start of a global revolution whose eventual significance will dwarf that of anything which has
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Inconvenience
I went to see Al Gore’s disaster movie about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth. Unusually for a disaster movie, maybe, it focuses not on the disaster as it unfolds but
The shredding of Lebanon
By John Roberts Watching yet another calculated bout of obscene violence in the Levant, one of the questions that ought to recur is: what persuades an ordinary young man (or
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Time for a New Global Architecture
By Stephen S. Roach, 24 April 2006 The world has avoided a major financial crisis for more than seven years. This is due more to luck than design. With oil prices
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Infuriating
The farewell article by Bill Emmott, outgoing editor of the Economist, is the usual mixture of insight and infuriation. You can read it here. The insight lies in his welcome
A global parliamentary assembly
Professor Andrew Strauss addressed a meeting this evening on how to set up a global parliamentary assembly. He was speaking at a meeting organised by the One World Trust, so
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Make poverty history
By John Roberts This enlighted slogan has been current for some months, part of the campaign to forgive debts owed to the industrialized world by African and other poor countries.
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