First came the financial and debt crisis in Greece, then government financing difficulties and rescue programs in Ireland in 2010 and Portugal in 2011. Before long, Italy and Spain were engulfed by fi
The global financial crisis produced an important agreement among regulators in 2010–11 to raise capital requirements for banks to protect them from insolvency in the event of another emergency. In th
The stakes of the poor in trade policy are large: Free trade can help 500 million people escape poverty and inject $200 billion annually into the economies of developing countries, according to author
"This is a careful and comprehensive survey of the literature of the last decade on growth and financial globalization. Secondarily, the book includes a useful explanation of some of the major policie
How much would it cost to meet the carbon abatement pledges made in the December 2009 Copenhagen Accord? Cline (Peterson Institute for International Economics) examines the prospective expenses, both
Cline (senior fellow jointly at the Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute for International Economics) presents a study that analyzes the prospective aggregate global agricultural i
Cline (a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics) assesses the implications of US external debt and proposes policies for mitigating their dangers. He develops a model for forecasti
Coming out of a conference held in September 2011 on the European debt crisis, this work examines policy options for resolving the euro area debt crisis. After a luncheon address by George Soros (Soro
