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September 10, 2024

United States
CFR and U.S. Department of Commerce Supply Chain Summit

Please click here to view the full agenda with all speakers. The Supply Chain Summit, cohosted by the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Department of Commerce, explores efforts taken by go…

Play The seal of the U.S. Department of Commerce on a podium.

July 30, 2024

State and Local Governments (U.S.)
Reporting on Statehouse Politics and Elected Officials

Diana Fuentes, executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, discusses accountability journalism and reporting on state politics. The host of the webinar is Carla Anne Robbins, senior fe…

Play The Ohio Senate in session.

August 14, 2024

China
China’s Imaginary Trade Data

China has a new way of calculating its good surplus in its formal balance of payments data. It is a deeply misleading. It also explains the apparent fall in the current account account surplus.

China’s Imaginary Trade Data

July 18, 2024

Gambia
Women This Week: Gambian Parliament Rejects Effort to Allow Female Genital Mutilation

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers July 13 to July 19.

Gambian activist Fatou Baldeh listens to Fatou Ba, as she mediates a discussion about female genital mutilation (FGM) involving women and a handful of men sitting under a mango tree in Sintet, Gambia, June 8, 2024.

June 5, 2005

Emerging Markets
Argentina completed its bond exchange (and my paper with Anna Gelpern on Argentina is now available too)

Some things do change. For the first time in a long time, Argentina is paying its international bonds. It completed its bond exchange last week, delivered the new bonds to its investors, and made t…

November 16, 2023

Ukraine
Winter Stalemate in Ukraine, Argentina’s Presidential Runoff, Turkey’s President visits Berlin, and More

Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces stalls as the future of U.S. aid remains uncertain; Argentina gears up for its presidential election runoff while inflation rates soar; Turkish Presi…

Podcast A serviceman of the 65th Mechanized Brigade crosses a trench at the Russian positions taken by the 65th Mechanized Brigade in the Zaporizhzhia Region of southeastern Ukraine on November 4, 2023.

July 3, 2017

China
Strong Evidence That China's Tourism Deficit Is Overstated

Comments on an important new Federal Reserve Working Paper by Anna Wong

Strong Evidence That China's Tourism Deficit Is Overstated