Interview with Uri Dadush
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China
The escalating China-US trade dispute: economic and geopolitical implications for Sub-Saharan Africa
The trade tensions between the United States and China will cause only minor immediate damage to their giant economies. However, tariffs have important and diverse effects on individual sectors and cause heightened uncertainty. […]
Implications of the escalating China-US trade dispute
If allowed to escalate, the trade dispute between China and the United States will significantly increase the likelihood of a global protectionist surge and a collapse in the rules-based international trading system. Here the author assesses the specific impacts on the Chinese and US economies, as well as the strategic problems this dispute poses for Europe. […]
Life after the multilateral trading system
Considering a world absent a multilateral trading system is not to promote such an outcome, but to encourage all to prepare for the worst and instil greater clarity in the mind of policymakers as to what happens if compromise fails. […]
The Misunderstood Link Between Trade and Migration
The trade war between China and the United States roils stock markets, and the World Trade Organization is at risk of extinction because major players ignore its rules. […]
The Belt and Road turns five
Five years after its launch, Michael Baltensperger and Uri Dadush reflect on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The plan to revive ancient trade routes has the potential to enhance development prospects across the world and in China, but that potential might not be realised because the BRI’s objectives are too broad and ill-defined, and its execution is too often non-transparent, lacking in due diligence and uncoordinated. […]
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. […]
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. […]
The End of Growth
The economic outlook continues to pose a challenge for private operators as well aa the public sector. World Trade shows very little progress. […]
Asia’s Economic Outlook: A View From the IMF
Though Asia remains the fastest growing region globally, its growth rate is slowing. Are the policies of countries in the region robust enough to deal with external exigencies, and how successful will they be? […]