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the Council on Foreign Relations

Economics

See also: Learning Resources on Economics

High School

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Activities

Barriers to Free Trade

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Lesson Plans

Evaluating Ecnomic State Craft Lesson Plan

Steel rolls from China at the Valparaiso port

Lesson Plans

Trade Wars and China Lesson Plan

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Lesson Plans

The Trade Agreement Game Lesson Plan

Making of shoes for export at a factory in Hanoi

Lesson Plans

Costs and Benefits of Free Trade Lesson Plan

FILE PHOTO: Drone view shows electric vehicles (EV) for export and containers sitting at a port in Shanghai

Essay and Discussion Questions

Trade High School Questions

Higher Education

A woman, who has been displaced by floods, carries a USAID box from USAID in Dadu

Activities

Future of U.S. Foreign Aid Strategy

A light blue book cover with a map of East Asia in the background with text that reads, "East Asian Economic Regionalism".

Book Guides

East Asian Economic Regionalism

A book cover with a white transparent globe in the center and text above it that reads, "Regional Monetary Integration".

Book Guides

Regional Monetary Integration

A book cover that shows rolled bills in various currencies and the dollar bill is poking out and highlighted green. The text reads, "Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy".

Book Guides

Financial Statecraft

A light blue book cover that shows two gold bars resting on one another. The text reads, "God and Gold: Britain, American, and the Making of the Modern World".

Book Guides

God and Gold

A book cover with a background resembling a dollar bill with text that reads, "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite".

Book Guides

More Money Than God

Resource Collections for your Students

An airman pushes a cargo pallet onto a military transport aircraft. The sunset can be seen in the background.

How the United States Provides Foreign Aid

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Monetary Policy: Economic Statecraft

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Monetary Policy: Introduction

Trade: Trade Wars

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Trade: Policy

Trade: Introduction