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Globalization and Sustainable Development
In the News

This is a selection of notable press hits featuring the work of the Globalization and Sustainable Development Program:

• Timothy A. Wise was quoted in The Nation for his work on US trade policies with Mexico, "How US Policies Fueled Mexico's Great Migration," on January 5, 2012.

• Lyuba Zarsky was interviewed by Mining Watch Canada on January 5, 2012, about her co-authored report, "Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala: Economic Benefits and Environmental Risks of the Marlin Mine." Watch the full interview.

• Kevin P. Gallgher was quoted in AlJazeera News, The dragon goes shopping in Latin America, on December 21, 2011.

• Timothy A. Wise was interviewed by the Real News Network on December 16, 2011 on the failure of the G20 and WTO to move on food security. Watch the full interview, "Spotlight G20: Food Security off the Table."

• Kevin P. Gallagher was quoted in El Pais, ¿Beneficia China o Latinoamérica? on December 12, 2011

• Kevin P. Gallagher was interviewed by EconSouth Now on the arguments for and against capital controls in emerging markets, based on his ongoing work on capital flows and development.

• Kevin P. Gallagher was interviewed by the Associated Press regarding the appointment of Christine Lagarde as chief of the IMF. Read the article, Lagarde takes helm of IMF amid major challenges. He was also interviewed by CBC News for the article, Lagarde will keep IMF focus on debt and the United Press International article, Lagarde says debt among IMF top concerns.
  

• Kevin P. Gallagher's article, An Intergovernmental Panel on Systemic Economic Risk, was posted on the Policy Innovations website.
  
  
• Timothy A. Wise was quoted extensively in a Harvard Kennedy
  School Review article, “The Coming Food Crisis: Trading Away Food Security.” The story draws heavily on Wise’s recent report on U.S. agricultural dumping in Mexico and his coauthored pieces on Mexico (for Carnegie Endowment with Zepeda and Gallagher) and with the GDAE-sponsored Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, “The Promise and the Perils of Agricultural Trade Liberalization.” (Read the article.)

• Timothy A. Wise commented in InterAmerican Dialogue’s Latin American Advisor newsletter as an invited respondent in their “Featured Q&A” on “Will public-private partnerships aid agribusiness in the region?” (Read the article.)

• Timothy A. Wise was interviewed by KRLD radio in Dallas Feb. 8, 2011, about NAFTA's impacts on agriculture in Mexico and the effects on Mexican migration to the United States.

• Timothy A. Wise was quoted in two recent McClatchy news wire
  stories on corn in Mexico, based in part on his work on agricultural dumping. Mexico, cradle of corn, finds its noble grain under assault, Feb. 2, 2011, focuses on the contentious issue of genetically modified corn. In the Feb. 1 article, Free trade: As U.S. corn flows south, Mexicans stop farming, the author explores the impact of NAFTA on small-scale Mexican farmers. The articles appeared in the Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, and Philippines Times, among many other McClatchy papers.

• The release of the economist letter, signed by more than 250 prominent economists and delivered to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, received significant media coverage.  The story was featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, BNA Trade Daily, and it was picked up on Naked Capitalism blog and the NY Times Dealbook blog among others.  See full list of press coverage.

• In a letter delivered on January 31, 2011, more than 250 economists urged the Obama administration to reform U.S. trade rules that restrict the use of capital controls.  GDAE researcher Kevin P. Gallagher and Sarah Anderson, director of the Institute for Policy Studies Global Economy Project, initiated the statement. Read the full statement.

• GDAE’s Timothy A. Wise was in Washington January 18-19, 2011 to present his research on agricultural dumping under NAFTA as part of the report, "Subsidizing Inequality: Mexican Corn Policy Since NAFTA" . Watch a webcast of the panel presentation. Read coverage of the Washington event in the Mexican daily Excelsior.

• Kevin P. Gallagher's work on capital controls is quoted in a Financial Times article titled Currency Tensions Sap Investor Enthusiasm (January 13, 2011).

• Tom Philpott wrote about Mexico, corn, and NAFTA in Grist Magazine, citing Timothy Wise’s work and including the recent Real News Network interview on his agricultural dumping paper.

• On January 6, 2011 GDAE Senior Researcher Kevin P. Gallagher gave a lecture to Mexican Senators, Congresspersons, and business executives on China's challenge to Mexico at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

• Timothy A. Wise was interviewed by the Real News Network about his work on the costs of U.S. dumping to Mexican farmers, which he summarized in a previous blog post. His monograph and policy brief are part of the report, "Subsidizing Inequality: Mexican Corn Policy Since NAFTA". View the Real News Network interview.

• Syndicated farm belt columnist Alan Guebert interviewed Timothy A. Wise about his policy brief with Betsy Rakocy, "Hogging the Gains from Trade," and the Real News Network interview on the same subject. The piece was picked up by several farm-oriented publications, including the Fort Wayne Sentinel which published the piece entitled, "Level the playing field of trade'? Just look out".

• Tom Philpott, a popular food writer for Grist, picked up Timothy A. Wise's most recent post for Triple Crisis Blog, "Are High Agricultural Prices Good or Bad for Poverty?", a response to Dani Rodrik's earlier post on food prices and poverty.  "One of my favorite agriculture researchers in the United States is Tim Wise of Tufts University.  Philpott writes “Turns out, he writes for my new favorite economics blog, Triple Crisis, in which rogue (i.e., non-neoclassical) economists analyze in plain English the globe's financial, development, and environmental crises (manifesto here)...." 

• Timothy A. Wise and GDAE co-director William Moomaw were part of a five-member group of panelists/judges for an MIT student project, "Mission 2014: Feeding the World," which was presented at MIT December 1, 2010.

• Kevin P. Gallagher's work on China-Latin America relations is quoted in a Finance Asia article titled The Growing Importance of China-Brazil Trade (November 23, 2010).

• On November 9, 2010 KPFK Radio in Los Angeles interviewed Kevin Gallagher about his new book with Roberto Porzecanski, The Dragon in the Room andabout the recently concluded G-20 summit. Listen to the interview.

• Kevin P. Gallagher's work on capital controls was quoted in an article in The Nation (October 6, 2010).

• Kevin P. Gallagher was quoted in a Bloomberg article on capital controls. (October 5, 2010).

• Kevin P. Gallagher was interviewed by China Radio International. The interview was based on Gallagher's work on China and Latin America.

• Kevin P. Gallagher's work on China's role in Latin America was quoted in a Finantial Times article.

• Kevin P. Gallagher's article, "The China Syndrome," appeared in the August 12, 2010 issue of Latin Trade. Gallagher presents China's complex role in Latin America, based on his forthcoming book with Roberto Porzecanski, The Dragon in the Room.

• Kevin P. Gallagher was quoted extensively in an International Business Times article that discusses economic development and China.

• Timothy Wise was quoted extensively in a feature article in the July 5, 2010 issue of The Nation, "Retreat to Subsistence," on the plight of Mexico's indigenous corn farmers under NAFTA. The article includes an excellent summary of the controversy over transgenic contamination of native fields.
  
  
• Senior Researcher Kevin P. Gallagher has published an op-ed on the Financial Times Economists Forum page: New sovereign debt management regime should be G20 focus June 21, 2010.
  
  
• GDAE Research Fellow Roberto Porzecanski launched his book on Uruguay's negotiations with the US on trade and investment agreements June 8, 2010 in Montevideo in a high profile event at the Ministry of External Relations.  The book, No Voy en Tren: Uruguay y las perspectivas de un TLC con Estados Unidos (2000-2010) (Not On Board: Uruguay and the Prospects for a Free Trade Agreement with the United States, 2000-2010), received prominent media coverage, including articles in El Pais, Brecha, and Busqueda, one of Uruguay's leading weekly magazines, as well as online coverage and an video interview with El Espectador.

• Kevin P. Gallagher's study on trade treaties and capital controls was quoted in the Financial Times on May 18, 2010: Asian emerging economies may contemplate capital controls.

• Senior Researcher Kevin P. Gallagher has published an op-ed on the Financial Times Economists Forum page: Would the Real IMF Please Stand Up? April 21, 2010.

• Senior Researcher Kevin P. Gallagher had a letter published in the April 1, 2010 issue of the Financial Times: Comment: Only a Multilateral Approach Will Help.

• Kevin Gallagher was quoted in Reuters and Canada's National Post on the politicization of the yuan, March 24, 2010.

• Kevin Gallagher was quoted in the Wall Street Journal questioning President Obama's stated goal of doubling exports: Exports Have Been US Blind Spot: Commerce Sec., Feb. 4, 2010

• The New York Times Economix Blog recently covered two new reports put out by GDAE on the impacts of NAFTA on Mexico:
  Did NAFTA Actually Help Mexico?, Dec. 10, 2009
  Dumping on Mexico, Dec. 15, 2009

• GDAE researcher Kevin P. Gallagher participated in a Senate briefing on U.S. proposals for investment provisions in trade agreements that got the following press coverage:
  Bureau of National Affiairs: Negotiations on U.S.-China BIT Likely to be Long, Public Interest Advocate Says, Dec. 14, 2009
  Congressional Quarterly: Bilateral Investment Treaties at Heart of U.S. Trade Policy Debate, Dec. 10, 2009
  Inside US-China Trade: Unions, NGOs Tell Senate Staff to be Wary of US-China Investment Pact, Dec. 16, 2009

• Reuters covered a recent GDAE report: Economists Question Big Gains from Doha Deal, Nov. 24, 2009.

• Senior Researcher Kevin P. Gallagher had a letter published in the November 5, 2009 issue of the Financial Times: Comment: Capital Inflow Controls Do Work Most of the Time.

• Timothy Wise was quoted in a recent Latin Trade article on trade agreement talks between the EU, US and Latin American countries. The article, which was published on May 30, 2009 quotes Wise on his extensive research on the lessons from NAFTA.

• Kevin P. Gallagher was quoted in a recent New York Times article by Elizabeth Malkin, "NAFTA's Promise, Unfilled," which appeared on the front page of the business section March 23, 2009: NAFTA's Promise, Unfulfilled.

• Kevin P. Gallagher joins Reuters' The Great Debate, on the merits of NAFTA, Dec. 2008 - Jan. 2009.

• On December 10, 2008 Timothy Wise is quoted in an Agence France-Presse article about the ongoing Doha round of trade negotiations: WTO Wants Doha for Christmas.

• Also see Kevin P. Gallagher's regular columns on globalization and development in The Guardian.