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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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October 19, 2023
Latin America
Ecuador’s 2023 Election: What Noboa’s Victory Means
Daniel Noboa Azín is the youngest president in Ecuador’s history and faces immediate challenges in tackling the country’s grave economic and security crises.
February 14, 2024
United States
C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago discusses the U.S. economy and monetary policy. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world’s foremost economic…
February 22, 2024
Economics
The IMF Needs to Focus on Setting Good Targets for External Debt Sustainability
The IMF has two frameworks for assessing debt sustainability. The market access country framework is more technically advanced, but it isn't delivering reasonable targets for debt restructuring cases…
December 3, 2014
Alan Gross, Year Six
Today Alan Gross will begin his sixth year in a Cuban prison. His "crime" was to deliver to the minuscule Cuban Jewish community some communications equipment supplied by the United States. The Cuba…
December 22, 2023
Venezuela
Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate
Venezuela’s ongoing descent into economic and political chaos is a cautionary tale of the dangerous influence that resource wealth can have on developing countries.
April 5, 2024
United States
Election 2024: China’s Efforts to Interfere in the U.S. Presidential Election
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: China is following Russia’s lead in meddling in the U.S. presidential election.
December 17, 2014
Cuba
What Did President Obama Trade for Alan Gross?
There is wonderful news this morning: that Alan Gross is finally free, out of a Cuban prison and back on American soil. For his family, this is the answer to prayers and the right outcome to a long s…
April 5, 2024
Japan
Why the U.S.-Japan Summit Matters
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s Washington summit on April 11 comes at a time of deepening security cooperation as well as some challenges to economic ties.
