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...speed up the development of clean-energy technologies, according to the Foundation’s press release. The Kennedy School group will study the efficacy of past and present U.S. policies intended to encourage clean-energy research, as well as the role government and business in Europe, China, Japan, and India play in the development of energy technology. Andrew Bowman, director of the Climate Change Initiative at the Duke Foundation, expressed confidence in the potential of the grant. “By focusing these grants on how energy technology innovation occurs and how it can be improved through better policy...
Since the formal founding of the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department in 1972, Harvard has offered a plethora of courses and workshops on various East Asian societies and their respective histories . From the basic survey courses on China, Japan, and Korea that dot the Core Curriculum to advanced seminars in various regional dialects, Harvard has almost always provided an avenue for those who wish to study even the most esoteric of topics. For those interested in early Korean history, however, even Harvard’s seemingly unlimited academic resources have offered little in the way of a definitive curriculum?...
Translation: The G-7 chiefs are looking at the same economic horizon but from different vantage points, given the unique economic circumstances in each of their countries. The hope for a concerted effort by banks to lower interest rates in Europe and Japan, for example, simply won't happen. "The fact is that the European Central Bank faces inflation risk and the Bank of Japan won't move either way," says Kenichi Kawasaki, Lehman Brothers' chief economist for Japan, last Thursday...
...that we had discord amongst ourselves, we just noticed differences respective to each of our economic situations...and the degree of impact," said Japanese finance minister Fukushiro Nukaga, who co-chaired the G-7 meeting with Bank of Japan governor Toshihiko Fukui. "But we're here to work in partnership to overcome this difficulty." The U.S. was "taking on the central role" Nukaga said, adding that "each country will do what they can, respectively...
There was, however, at least one specific point of agreement: the importance of the joint-initiative of Japan, Britain and the U.S. to start a climate-change fund in cooperation with the World Bank. "There's clearly a role for a fund aimed and focused at technology and technology adoption in developing markets," says Paulson. "We have no chance of solving this problem unless we accelerate the use of clean technology and come up with incentives for the private sector." Japan hopes to take the lead in climate change when it hosts the Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido...