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New from Globalization Researchers:

The Damaging Links Between Food, Fuel and Finance: A growing threat to food security, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, April 8, 2013

The Political Economy of Managing Capital Flows in South Korea and South Africa, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, April 5, 2013

The Global Governance of Capital Flows: New Opportunities, Enduring Challenges, by Brittany A. Baumann and Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper No. 320, April 2013.

IMF's New View on Capital Controls, Kevin P Gallagher and Jose Antonio Ocampo, Economic & Political Weekly Vol - XLVIII No. 12, March 23, 2013

Tim Wise on TRNN"Everyone But China" Agreement Prevents Regulation of Hot Money and Speculation
Kevin Gallagher speaks with The Real News Network about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He argues that th TPP, an everyone but China agreement, would make it illegal for countries to regulate the flow of hot money and speculation. (March 18, 2013)

Regulating Global Capital FlowsCapital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review
Task Force on Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development, March 2013
This report highlights a number of potential incompatibilities found between the trade and investment treaties and the ability to deploy CARs. It builds on the findings of the first Task Force and presents the findings of a second workshop led by GDAE Senior Researcher Kevin P. Gallagher.

Tim Wise on TRNNWatch:
Decisive Action Needed to Resolve Food Crisis
Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy speak on the need action on speculation, biofuels, land grabs, climate change and low levels of public food reserves.
Read additional coverage of this topic:
Food Crisis Update: Main Drivers of Price Volatility Still Not Addressed, Triple Crisis Blog, February 12, 2013
A year of squandered opportunities to resolve the food crisis, Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, IATP Commentary, January 31, 2013
Resolving the food crisis: The need for decisive action, Timothy A. Wise & Sophia Murphy, Al Jazeera, January 30, 2013 (Also reprinted in Third World Economics: Trends and Analysis)

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Foreign Investment & Capital Controls

The Political Economy of Managing Capital Flows in South Korea and South Africa, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, April 5, 2013

The Global Governance of Capital Flows: New Opportunities, Enduring Challenges, by Brittany A. Baumann and Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper No. 320, April 2013

IMF's New View on Capital Controls, Kevin P Gallagher and Jose Antonio Ocampo, Economic & Political Weekly Vol - XLVIII No. 12, March 23, 2013

Regulating Global Capital Flows
Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review
,
The Task Force on Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development,
March 2013.

This report highlights a number of potential incompatibilities found between the trade and investment treaties and the ability to deploy CARs. It builds on the findings of the first Task Force and presents the findings of a second workshop led by GDAE Senior Researcher Kevin P. Gallagher

The IMF’s New View on Financial Globalization: A Critical Assessment, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Pardee Center Issues in Brief, No. 26, December 2012

Kevin Gallagher on Global Policy TV

The IMF’s Half Step, Kevin P. Gallagher, Project Syndicate, December 5, 2012

The Social Cost of Self-Insurance: Financial Crisis, Reserve Accumulation, and Developing, Countries, Kevin P. Gallagher and Elen Shrestha, Global Policy Journal, November 2012.

Global Financial Reform and Trade Rules: The Need for Reconciliation, by Kevin P. Gallagher and Leonardo E. Stanley, Pardee Center Issues in Brief, No. 24, September 2012

Financial Crises and International Investment Agreements: The Case of Sovereign Debt Restructuring
, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Global Policy Journal, September 6, 2012.

Navigating Capital Flows in Brazil and Chile, by Kevin P. Gallagher, IPD Working Paper, June 2012.

The Global Governance of Capital Flows: New Opportunities, Enduring Challenges, by Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper, May 2012.

Regulating Global Capital Flows CoverRegulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development, The Task Force on Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development, March 2012.
The report posits that there is a clear rationale for capital account regulations (CARs) in the wake of the financial crisis.
Watch a video summary of this report on Global Policy TV.

Read more about GDAE’s work on Capital Flows and Foreign Investment


China & Latin America

China is the new bank in Latin America. Is it a better deal?, by Kevin P. Gallagher and Estefanía Marchán, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, February 11, 2013

¿Un mejor trato? Análisis comparativo de los préstamos chinos en América Latina, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Amos Irwin, y Katherine Koleski, Centro de Estudios China-México de la Facultad de Economía de la UNAM, Updated January 2013

Chinese Investment and Sustainable Development in Peru: A Comparative Analysis, Amos Irwin and Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Working Group Discussion Paper DP34, December 2012

Capitalizing on the China Cycle: Time is Running out For Latin America, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Inter-American Dialogue Policy Brief, December 2012

The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Amos Irwin, and Katherine Koleski, Inter-American Dialogue Report, February 2012

The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American IndustrializationThe Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski, Stanford University Press (Order Information)

China Discovers Latin America, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Berkeley Review, University of California, Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies, Fall/Winter 2011



Learn more about GDAE's work on China and Latin America


Agricultural Policies and the Global Food Crisis

The Damaging Links Between Food, Fuel and Finance: A growing threat to food security, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, April 8, 2013

Tim Wise on TRNNDecisive Action Needed to Resolve Food Crisis Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy speak to The Real News Network on the need action on speculation, biofuels, land grabs, climate change and low levels of public food reserves.

Read additional coverage of this topic:
Food Crisis Update: Main Drivers of Price Volatility Still Not Addressed, by Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, February 12, 2013
A year of squandered opportunities to resolve the food crisis, by Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, IATP Commentary, January 31, 2013
Resolving the food crisis: The need for decisive action, Timothy A. Wise & Sophia Murphy, Al Jazeera, January 30, 2013 (Also reprinted in Third World Economics: Trends and Analysis)

Olivier De Schutter speaking at TuftsThe Right to Food: A Weapon Against Global Hunger Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, spoke at Tufts University on November 27, 2012. Watch his full presentation or see additional coverage of the event: UN rapporteur discusses food policy, world hungerTufts Daily, Daphne Kolios; and Biofuels and the Right to Food: Time for the US to get its head out of the sand Triple Crisis Blog, Timothy A. Wise

Global Food Security in a Volatile World, Timothy A. Wise, World Politics Review, November 6, 2012

Wise on "Fueling the Food Crisis"
Two GDAE Working Papers on U.S Ethanol costs to developing countries
, including The Cost to Developing Countries of U.S. Corn Ethanol Expansion, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper 12-02, October 2012

Watch The Real News Network interview: Fueling the Food Crisis



Achieving Mexico’s Maize Potential, Antonio Turrent Fernández, Timothy A. Wise, and Elise Garvey, GDAE Working Paper 12-03, October 2012

Wise TRNN Interview on Biofuels The Drought and the Coming Food Price Bubble- Timothy A. Wise was interviewed by The Real News Network to discuss how biofuels, climate change, and speculation exacerbate the food crisis. ( August 13, 2012)

Resolving the Food CrisisResolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007, by Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, GDAE-IATP Policy Report, January 2012.


Watch an interview with the authors by the Real News Network: Bio-fuels, Speculation, Land Grabs = Food Crisis.

Read more on GDAE's work on Food and Agriculture


Reforming US Trade Policies

Tim Wise on TRNN"Everyone But China" Agreement Prevents Regulation of Hot Money and Speculation
Kevin Gallagher speaks with The Real News Network about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He argues that th TPP, an everyone but China agreement, would make it illegal for countries to regulate the flow of hot money and speculation. (March 18, 2013)

Tired of Waiting for a 21st Century Trade Agreement: Developing Countries, the TPP, and Regulating Cross Border Finance, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, June 13, 2012 

Economists Issue Statement on Capital Controls and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Initiated by GDAE and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), this economist statement calls for negotiators of the TPPA to recognize that capital controls are legitimate prudential financial regulations, February 28, 2012.

Bamboozled by the TPP: The Small Benefits and Real Costs of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, by Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, January 23, 2012.

Trading Away Stability and Growth: United States Trade Agreements in Latin America, by Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper No. 266, September 2011.

Wise on TPP Timothy A. Wise was interviewed by The Real News Network on President Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), based on his LATN Brief, "U.S. Trade Policy: 'Still Waiting for a "21st Century Trade Agreement'," co-authored with Kevin P. Gallagher. The LATN Brief is based on the Task Force on North American Trade Policy Report, now available in Spanish. (September 15, 2011)

U.S. Trade Policy: Still Waiting for a "21st Century Trade Agreement," by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, LATN Brief, August 2011.

Read more about GDAE's work in Reforming US Trade Policies


Other Recent Publications from Globalization Researchers

Climate Impacts on Agriculture: A Challenge to Complacency? Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton, GDAE Working Paper 13-01, February 2013

Challenges to India's Pharmaceutical Patent Laws, by Kenneth C. Shadlen, Science, July 27, 2012.

Visit the Publications Library for a complete list of research areas and publications.


The Triple Crisis Blog

The Triple Crisis Blog provides expert opinion and analysis on the global crises in finance, development and environment. GDAE and partners launched the Triple Crisis Blog in February of 2010. Globalization Researchers Kevin P. Gallagher, Timothy A. Wise, and Lyuba Zarsky are all regular contributors to the Triple Crisis Blog. Read the most recent posts:

Triple Crisis BlogThe Damaging Links Between Food, Fuel and Finance: A growing threat to food security, Timothy A. Wise,Triple Crisis Blog, April 8, 2013

The Political Economy of Managing Capital Flows in South Korea and South Africa, Kevin P. Gallagher,Triple Crisis Blog, April 5, 2013


Columns & Commentaries

The Damaging Links Between Food, Fuel and Finance: A growing threat to food security, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, April 8, 2013

The Political Economy of Managing Capital Flows in South Korea and South Africa, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, April 5, 2013

Don’t trade away financial stability in Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreeement, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Financial Times, March 6, 2013

Food Crisis Update: Main Drivers of Price Volatility Still Not Addressed, by Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, February 12, 2013

Picture of Kevin GallagherRead more columns and commentaries from GDAE researchers, including Senior GDAE Researcher Kevin P. Gallagher in The Guardian and the Financial Times.

 

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