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November 27, 2012

Economics
Emerging Voices: Stephanie Hanson on Empowering Female Smallholder Farmers

Emerging Voices features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Stephanie Hanson, director o…

One-Acre-Fund-female-smallholder-farm-agricultural-development-livelihood-Africa-cropped

May 2, 2024

Economics
State and Local Officials Webinar on RealEcon: Reimagining American Economic Leadership

Matthew Goodman, distinguished fellow and director of the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at CFR, discusses CFR’s new RealEcon initiative and the role of state and local officials in contrib…

Play Flag and Trade

February 22, 2024

Ukraine
Grim Ukraine War Anniversary, WTO in Limbo, Blinken’s Lula and Milei Tour, and More

Ukraine marks the second anniversary of Russia’s large-scale invasion; the World Trade Organization (WTO) holds its thirteenth ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi amid deep uncertainty about progress…

Podcast A Ukrainian serviceman of the 65th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces looks on from a trench in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on February 21, 2024

June 22, 2021

Women and Economic Growth
Women and E-Commerce: The $300 Billion Opportunity

Closing the gender gap on online platforms means being able to put billions of dollars into the wallets of women entrepreneurs and exponentially grow global e-commerce markets. This blog is authored …

A woman packages e-commerce items.

January 22, 2024

Trade
The Curse of Nostalgia: Industrial Policy in the United States

A critical look at the past and present of industrial policy shows that its recent popularity is not only misguided, but is likely to have negative economic and geopolitical consequences for the Unit…

President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on August 16, 2022.

December 21, 2020

Global
CFR Board Appoints New Leadership at Foreign Affairs

The Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has named Daniel Kurtz-Phelan as the seventh editor of Foreign Affairs and to the Peter G. Peterson chair, succeeding Gideon Rose, the…

February 25, 2021

Transition 2021
Transition 2021 Series: A Gathering Storm—The Future of U.S.-North Korea Policy

Our panelists discuss the future of the U.S. relationship with North Korea under the Biden administration, including the country’s nuclear capabilities and ambitions, and China’s role in the peninsul…

Play North Korean leader Kim Jong Un holds hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Pyongyang International Airport by a plane and surrounded with people