For decades, the globe has been shrinking as the lines between domestic and foreign economies blur, the computer literate plug into endless streams of information, and companies go abroad in search of cheaper labor and new markets. Now a hallmark of Washington culture is going global, too: the think tank.
Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ednan Karabayev sat down with Ambassador James F. Collins, director of the Russia and Eurasia Program, to talk about Kyrgyzstan and its foreign relations.
For days, thousands of average Burmese and respected Buddhist monks have paraded through the streets of Burmese cities, calling for democracy and picking up supporters as they march. The events of today are reminiscent of 1988 when the Burmese military took power, convinced that there would be no sanctions from the international community. Twenty years on, history is in danger of being repeated.
How high – and how fast – is China’s trade moving up the technology ladder? What are the causes and policy implications for China and the U.S. of China’s increasing export sophistication? On September 26, the Carnegie Endowment and the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution co-sponsored a discussion with three researchers from the US and China on these controversial topics.
On September 25, 2007, Indian Commerce Secretary Gopal K. Pillai spoke at the Carnegie Endowment on India’s current perspective on the Doha Round.
Experts say that greenhouse-gas trading designed under the Kyoto Protocol was an important first step in reducing emissions increasingly linked to climate change. William Chandler, a senior policy analyst for energy and climate, says trading programs have achieved mixed results. Chandler argues that the United Nations should rethink how it implements its trading program to make it more effective.
On September 20, 2007, the Carnegie Endowment hosted a discussion about the impact of core labor standards on development. Speakers from the International Labor Office and the office of the United States Trade Representative evaluated the outcomes of programs to implement the standards. Carnegie's Sandra Polaski moderated the event.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Evan Feigenbaum elaborated on his perspective of the current state of U.S.-Turkmenistan relations and offered his thoughts on how the two countries can move forward.
The Chinese government must move quickly and dramatically to increase interest rates to reduce the risk of an inflation crisis, says a new policy brief from the Carnegie Endowment. Albert Keidel, an expert on China’s economy, urges the Chinese government to avoid the danger of harsh corrective steps which in the past caused severe declines in GDP growth, fueled deadly urban civil unrest throughout the country, and brought long-lasting damage to China’s international reputation.
The Carnegie Endowment organized a discussion in which Sufyan Alissa, Associate at the Carnegie Middle Easter Center, presented the findings of his recent paper "Rethinking Economic Reform in Jordan: Confronting Socioeconomic Realities."























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