India’s Capital Cusp in US–China Tensions

The Yin and Yang of Capital Flow Management: Balancing Capital Inflows with Capital Outflows Introduction -- Chapter 4 of the World Economic Outlook WEO October 2013 Transitions and Tensions

When foreign capital surges into countries, there are two possible means of adjustment: financial adjustment through increases in resident capital outflows or reserves accumulation, or real adjustment through a larger current account deficit. Historically, surges in capital inflows to emerging market economies tended to lead to domestic booms and current account deficits and, when the flows rev...

Nested Tensions in Care.

This project presents research-based art works that inquire into the tensions in everyday life from an ethical viewpoint of care, which sees people as embedded, "nested" in care-based relationships. Trust is the glue that holds these "nests" together. Care is the air that lifts them up, but tensions exist as well-between dependency and autonomy, vulnerability and strength, for example. The pull...

Indias last bastion of polio at "tipping point".

Tensions in antibiotic prescribing.

Since 1999, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has funded seven centers across the country to provide practical guidance to physicians and other health care professionals about the drugs they prescribe. These Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) develop, translate and disseminate objective information on drugs to improve practice. The University of Pennsylvania...

GM tensions dig in

Plans by local authorities, towns, national parks and even states in Europe to set up genetically modified free zones to stop the controversial crops being grown in their areas are in deep confusion following new EU guidelines announced last month. Combined with uncertainty over who would be legally liable if genetic contamination takes place and the World Trade Organisation's pending case agai...