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February 16, 2021

Asia
CFR Mini Mac Index Shows U.S. Dollar Falling, Other Safe Havens Soaring, Amid Pandemic

    The “law of one price” holds that identical goods should trade for the same price in an efficient market. But how well does it actually hold internationally? The Economist magazine’s Bi…

Blog Post by Benn Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca Geo-Graphics

August 1, 2022

Economics
QE and Inflation: The FT Responds to Us, and We to Them

   

Cumulative Change Since Jan 2020
Blog Post by Benn Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca Geo-Graphics

April 23, 2020

South Korea
South Korea: How History Informed Battle With Covid-19

The 2014 Sewol ferry disaster and 2015 MERS both shaped the current administration’s successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

A woman wearing a face mask in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walks past a voter at a polling booth in Seoul, South Korea, on April 15, 2020.
Blog Post by Song Ho-chang Asia Unbound

August 12, 2015

Asia
Southeast Asia Summer Reading

Summer is winding down. In the Washington area, the brick oven heat of late July and early August is giving way to that late August feeling of merely living in a sauna. School forms are due. And it i…

myanmar-beach-fishing
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

January 26, 2022

South Korea
What Does Korea’s 2022 Presidential Election Mean for its Democracy?

The ongoing South Korean presidential race holds significant sociopolitical implications for the future of democracy as democratic backsliding has now become an undeniable reality in South Korea. 

Candidates Lee jae-myung and Yoon Seok-youl shake hands
Blog Post by Gi-Wook Shin Asia Unbound