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Anonymous's blog As US presidents encounter domestic policy obstacles, they traditionally turn their attention to foreign affairs. At the top of the agenda for the Obama administration has been the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, s ...


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Anonymous's blog Next Generation Delegation 2014 Commentary Series By D eepak Premkumar, PhD Student in Development Economics at UC-Berkeley and a 2014 Next Generation Del egat e I grew up in two very different worlds: a small Iowa college town and t ...




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Anonymous's blog This post by senior fellow Roger Thurow originally appeared on the Outrage and Inspire blog.  Seema (on the left) and Sanju tending their babies in India. Photo credit: Anne Thurow In the rural Indian village of Barjor Khera, Seema K ...


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Anonymous's blog This commentary is part of a series organized by  The Chicago Council's Global Agricultural Development Initiative  and the  World Food Prize  to examine the relationship between biotechnology, sustainability, and climate volati ...



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Anonymous's blog “Where is the outrage?,” came the plea in London at the conclusion of a parade of alarming statistics on child stunting. “Where is the inspiration?,” asked the young student at another gathering this summer, wondering how to move for ...


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Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth Adam Posen, a leading practitioner of the dismal science of economics, gave an unusually upbeat overview of the economy–both global and American–to The Chicago Council on Tuesday evening. “We [the US] aren’t doing as ...


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Event Summary by Philip I. Levy For all of China’s vaunted economic performance over the last decade, the country still has its doubters. Ever since Ben Bernanke talked about a “global savings glut” in 2005, there has been a school of thought that has hel ...