Articles

Environmental Forum/The Developing World

This regular column, "The Developing World," appears in Environmental Forum, the policy journal of the Environmental Law Institute. It address international environmental concerns, developing countries, and development finance and institutions, including topics such as climate change, climate finance, and corruption, as well as particular issues in individua...

Environmental Forum/The Developing World

This regular column, "The Developing World," appears in Environmental Forum, the policy journal of the Environmental Law Institute. It address international environmental concerns, developing countries, and development finance and institutions, including topics such as climate change, climate finance, and corruption, as well as particular issues in individua...

Environmental Forum/Cover Stories

These cover story articles, in Environmental Forum, the policy journal of the Environmental Law Institute, address international environmental issues, developing countries, and development finance and institutions, including issues such as the environmental role of export finance and Export Credit Agenies (ECAs), corruption in the lending of the World Bank a...

Environmental Forum/Cover Stories

These cover story articles, in Environmental Forum, the policy journal of the Environmental Law Institute, address international environmental issues, developing countries, and development finance and institutions, including issues such as the environmental role of export finance and Export Credit Agenies (ECAs), corruption in the lending of the World Bank a...

Law Review Articles and Comments

Two major law review articles and a law review comment address 1. the role of the World Bank in climate-friendly energy investment for poverty alleviation; 2. the initial evolution in the 1980s of an international framework for environmental assessment in development lending. Inter alia, a leitmotif is the chronic institutional problem in multilateral develo...

Law Review Articles and Comments

Two major law review articles and a law review comment address 1. the role of the World Bank in climate-friendly energy investment for poverty alleviation; 2. the initial evolution in the 1980s of an international framework for environmental assessment in development lending. Inter alia, a leitmotif is the chronic institutional problem in multilateral develo...

Congressional Testimony

In 2004 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a path breaking series of hearings on "Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks" in which I testified twice as well as submitted recommendations for legislation, which was introduced and signed into law in 2005.

Congressional Testimony

In 2004 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a path breaking series of hearings on "Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Development Banks" in which I testified twice as well as submitted recommendations for legislation, which was introduced and signed into law in 2005.

On Development Finance, Environment, and Institutions

I discuss the World Bank in the broader context of civil society and international development finance, including articles from World Policy Journal, two pieces on carbon finance and a in depth review of New York University professor (and former leading World Bank economics researcher) William Easterly's book on "why the West's efforts to aid the rest have d...

On Development Finance, Environment, and Institutions

I discuss the World Bank in the broader context of civil society and international development finance, including articles from World Policy Journal, two pieces on carbon finance and a in depth review of New York University professor (and former leading World Bank economics researcher) William Easterly's book on "why the West's efforts to aid the rest have d...

Ashoka, Buddhism and Globalization

These articles include two syntheses of my arguments in To Uphold the World that appeared in Tricycle and Tikkun, a Washington Post blog piece, and an excerpt from the new preface to the Penguin/Random House paperback November 2017 revised edition of To Uphold the World, published under the new title of Ashoka in Our Time: the Question of Dharma for a Global...

Ashoka, Buddhism and Globalization

These articles include two syntheses of my arguments in To Uphold the World that appeared in Tricycle and Tikkun, a Washington Post blog piece, and an excerpt from the new preface to the Penguin/Random House paperback November 2017 revised edition of To Uphold the World, published under the new title of Ashoka in Our Time: the Question of Dharma for a Global...

Essays on To Uphold The World

These two review articles give a particularly good overview of both the historical and contemporary themes I attemped to address in To Uphold the World. The first is from the Kyoto Journal, an award winning English language quarterly on culture and ideas in modern Asia based in Japan. The second is from the Economic and Political Weekly, arguably the lead...

Essays on To Uphold The World

These two review articles give a particularly good overview of both the historical and contemporary themes I attemped to address in To Uphold the World. The first is from the Kyoto Journal, an award winning English language quarterly on culture and ideas in modern Asia based in Japan. The second is from the Economic and Political Weekly, arguably the lead...