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Lawrence H. Summers:There’s a revealing puzzle in the China tariffsOn 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. |
Tue, May 14, 2019 | The Washington Post |
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Afsaneh Beschloss:The World is Completely ConnectedAfsaneh Beschloss was interviewed by John Donnelly for the IFC blog. |
Wed, Jan 27, 2021 | IFC | |
Jonathan Everhart:The World Bank & AI: Leveraging AI to Accelerate Global Investments for Economic Development and Climate FinanceArtificial Intelligence (AI) is at the core of the future of the global capital markets. The World Bank can capitalize on it by leaning in from a governance and operational standpoint to leverage AI to accelerate investments for emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). |
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Hung Tran:The US Debt Ceiling Stalemate Threatens Money Market Funds—and Financial StabilityThe "wrangling over the national debt ceiling has heightened uncertainty at the wrong time and is helping to raise the odds of a severe recession", writes BWC member Hung Tran. It'll "exact an increasingly noticeable cost... for the whole economy." |
Tue, May 16, 2023 | Atlantic Council |
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Frank Vogl:The Unprecedented 2020 Bank and Fund Annual Meetings: Confronting Today’s Grave Double CrisesThe October 2020 annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were like none others. |
Fri, Oct 30, 2020 | Bretton Woods Committee | |
C. Fred Bergsten:The United States vs. China: The Quest for Global Economic LeadershipChina’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 |
Fri, Aug 26, 2022 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | |
James A. Baker III, George P. Shultz, and Ted Halstead:The Strategic Case for U.S. Climate Leadership: How Americans Can Win With a Pro-Market SolutionIn 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. |
Tue, Apr 14, 2020 | Foreign Affairs |
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Catherine L. Mann, Jonathan Goldberg, Inosi Nyatta and Edward Morse:The State of Energy FinanceOn April 21, BWC member Catherine L. Mann (Citigroup) joined Jonathan Goldberg (Carbon Direct), Inosi Nyatta (Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP), and Edward Morse (Citigroup, moderator) to explore various issues within the world of energy finance, including how the market is evolving, how to define "green finance", and additional relevant policy issues. |
Wed, Apr 21, 2021 | Our Energy Policy |
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Jason Schenker, John Lewis Gaddis, Angela Stent, Alan Gin:The second Cold War is already beginning, experts say, and many of the battles are being fought with economic weaponsJust 60 years ago, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were at the height of a Cold War that nearly resulted in nuclear warfare. Today, experts say, the U.S. and its old foe, now Russia, are headed into another one. But it won't be the same. |
Fri, Mar 25, 2022 | CNBC |
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Hung Tran:The Root Causes of Geopolitical FragmentationBWC member Hung Tran writes that the way to address economic and geopolitical fragmentation is to "address domestic challenges and build more inclusive economies in order to create the necessary internal political support for international cooperation." |
Mon, May 1, 2023 | Atlantic Council |