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The Strategic Case for U.S. Climate Leadership: How Americans Can Win With a Pro-Market Solution

In the United States, the case for greater action on climate change is typically made on environmental grounds. But there are equally compelling economic, geopolitical, and national security rationales for the United States to lead the world on climate policy.

The United States vs. China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership

China’s dramatic growth and its implications for the world economy have fueled new books at a pace commensurate with the subject

A recent wave includes an important book by Fred Bergsten, founder of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and an established Washington elder on global economics

The Unprecedented 2020 Bank and Fund Annual Meetings: Confronting Today’s Grave Double Crises

The October 2020 annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were like none others. 

The World is Completely Connected

Afsaneh Beschloss was interviewed by John Donnelly for the IFC blog.

There’s a revealing puzzle in the China tariffs

On Monday, China announced new tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. exports, and the United States threatened new tariffs on up to $300 billion of Chinese goods.

There’s No Magic in How SDRs Help the Poor

A new SDR allocation would provide liquidity to many emerging and developing countries that today have severely limited access to external financing.

Time for China to Use Its Influence with Putin to Create Room for Peace

"If China wants to lead," writes BWC vice-chair Bill Rhodes in an op-ed for the South China Morning Post, "the country should do so on Ukraine by creating pressure for and room for a deal, rather than siding with the aggressor and sliding into being an active military supplier to Russia."

To Defeat COVID, Bring America's Full Power to the International Fight

The stakes are immeasurably high for the global community to get this right. The world needs US resources, conflict resolution and democracy support.

To Stop a New Round of Emerging-Market Debt Defaults, Send in the Volunteers

"The US can draw on its deep reservoir of sovereign-debt advisory and analytical talent to provide a missing honest broker in today's multiparty, multidimensional standoff," writes BWC member Gary Kleiman.

Towards A New Multilateralism for Shared Prosperity

Kevin P. Gallagher is Professor and Director of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, USA, follow him @KevinPGallagher.