Two tracks out of the Doha wasteland?

But if the problem is that a large number of countries are reluctant to engage at all, how will widening the front lead to an earlier outcome?

Critical mass agreement vs the Doha Round

We'll cut to the chase, shall we, in this fourth of my posts on modeling the impact of a 'critical mass' agreement in agriculture? Click on the tags at the left-side or at the bottom of this article to find the earlier posts.

Modeling ‘critical mass’ trade agreements

In the past couple of weeks, I've been modeling the economic impacts of an alternative way to open up world agricultural markets using 'critical mass' trade agreements.

U.S. and Global Temperatures: a correction

Dr Gavin Schmidt, a climate modeler at NASA and a principal author of the Real Climate weblog, has emailed me to point out an error (mine) in my review of Ian Plimer's Heaven + Earth.

Budget transparency turns murky

On the biggest single program item, Defense—a staggering 2.3% of GDP or $27 billion dollars next year alone—it seems to be a case of re-negging and obscurity.