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June 1, 2023

Economics
Using an SDR Bond Creatively to Boost Concessional and Climate Finance

Combining an SDR with budget funding is the most efficient way to stretch budgeted dollars (and euros) and increased the global supply of concessional financing. 

A worker walks between solar panels at Centragrid power plant in Nyabira, Zimbabwe.

May 16, 2023

United States
Why Today Is Not Like the 1850s

American politics turned hyper toxic several years ago, and ever since commentators have raised the specter of a second civil war. No other historical parallel, it seems, captures so viscerally today…

Supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump stand near Confederate and U.S. flags in Wellington, Ohio on June 26, 2021.

June 30, 2020

China
As Africa Faces COVID-19, Chinese Debt Relief is a Welcome Development

Stephen Paduano is the executive director of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission and a doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics, where he studies African political economy with an emph…

President Xi Jinping of China claps and smiles in a dark gray suit with a maroon tie and white shirt. Behind him are national flags on vertical flag polls. The Chinese flag is front and center. It is flanked by the flags of South Africa and Botswana to the left, and of Algeria, Benin, and Burkina Faso to the right.

September 15, 2023

Sustainable Development Goals (UN)
A Vision for Sustainable Development With Linda Thomas-Greenfield

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield discusses the Sustainable Development Goals, avoiding the cynicism trap, and ways the United States and the United Nations can work toget…

Play Linda Thomas-Greenfield testifies on Capitol Hill

March 23, 2023

Europe
Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: The Legacy of the Helsinki Accords

Panelists discuss the history and legacy of the Helsinki Accords, the 1975 agreement that concluded the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and human rights concerns today.

Play Helsinki Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland

April 27, 2020

Immigration and Migration
Trump’s Latest Immigration Restrictions Are Ill-Advised—and Un-American

Immigration benefits the United States while hewing to the nation's founding principles. 

Mexican immigrants cast shadows on a striped National Institute of Migration (INM) building in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico