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May 22, 2015
North Korea
Human Rights Conditions of Overseas Laborers from North Korea
The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) has released a new report entitled Human Rights and North Korea’s Overseas Laborers: Dilemmas and Policy Challenges, by Yoon Yeosang and Lee S…
September 11, 2006
China
The Wall Street Journal (finally) takes note: Europe, not the US, explains the recent surge in China’s exports
I was tempted to title this blog “$18.8 billion more reasons for Tyler Cowen, Dan Drezner, Greg Mankiw and a host of others to think the RMB isn’t really undervalued.” But that would be a bit…
October 1, 2010
South Korea
The Seoul G20 Summit: Opportunity for and Challenge to Strengthening U.S.-Korea Relations
Marcus Noland is Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. A major, largely overlooked development of the recent financial crisis has been the emergenc…
September 9, 2020
Southeast Asia
A Review of “Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia” by Ben Bland
Thomas Pepinsky is Tisch University Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author, most recently, of …
March 11, 2010
North Korea
Rajin-Sonbong: North Korea’s (New?) Strategy to Attract Foreign Investment
I’ve been watching North Korea ramp up efforts to attract foreign investment since Jack Pritchard and I heard last November in Pyongyang from the chairman of Pyongyang’s Foreign Investment Advisory B…