World Policy Conference 2018
What is the impact of Trump policies on trade? […]
Year: 2018
Can Africa learn from Morocco?
Africa has an enormous infrastructure gap that impedes its development. The Compact with Africa (CwA) is an international policy initiative sponsored under the German presidency of the G-20 in 2017 designed to bridge that gap […]
The Role of Fundamentals in Global Imbalances
The concern over global imbalances has become an effort to systematically reduce current account deficits and surpluses, feeding the protectionist narrative. […]
Four Dangerous Illusions about the Looming Trade War
Fortunately, trade wars do not kill people, but the consequences for the living standards of the world’s citizens could turn out to be disastrous. […]
Mitigating the Adjustment Costs of International Trade
In the present era of globalization and rapid technological advance living standards across the world have risen at unprecedented rates, and over a billion people have been lifted out of poverty. […]
Our Trade Tensions Will Persist Beyond Trump
Technology and inequality, China’s special status, macroeconomic imbalances, and WTO dysfunction, are the challenges confronted by the world trading system, and which lie at the root of resurgent protectionism. […]
Will the African Free Trade Agreement Succeed?
The recently signed African Continental Free Trade Agreement represents a countercurrent to protectionist tendencies across the Atlantic and the Pacific […]
La reprise économique mondiale peut-elle être maintenue?
Une entrevue avec Khadija Ihsane pour Medi1 TV Afrique sur l’économie mondiale […]
US steel and aluminium tariffs: how should the EU respond?
President Trump and his trade team are set on a path of protectionism and economic nationalism. Trump’s intended measure raises four issues for the EU […]
The economic effects of refugee return (Global Solutions Paper)
The recent surge in the number of forcibly displaced persons who cross international borders in search of protection has prompted interest in evaluating policies that achieve the possible “end points” […]