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Remember John Lennon singing “Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do, nothing to...
Policy Notes
More than half the world’s population already lives in cities – about 58 percent today, and by 2050 nearly seven in ten people will call...
Africa’s future has never been in aid—it is in Africans’ hands. If Africa acts now, it won’t just feed itself – it will feed the...
In October 2022 the U.N. listed 7.6 million Ukrainian refugees across Europe, including 2.85 million in Russia—many of the latter were sent there by Russian occupiers...
Inundated by bleak headlines and even bleaker forecasts, it is easy to forget that, in many ways, the world is better than it has ever...
Research Highlights
Over the past decade, developing countries have, once again, turned out in debt distress. Debt service levels now approach those recorded in the late 1990s...
“Why a country once on the brink of democratic renewal now faces state collapse — and what it will take to reverse course” Sudan did...
What a persistently low oil price does to oil-rich countries is like what a long, cold winter does to people. It makes many of them...
While others have advocated for universal basic income (UBI) to address problems in the labor market or to replace inefficient and inequitable subsidies, my co-authors and I make...
Trade policy has recently been rediscovered as a foreign policy instrument that can, at least in theory, deliver non-trade results. Tariffs and sanctions are increasingly...
Opinion
Under Assad family rule, Syria was possibly the most centralized state in the Middle East. For decades, in a war-pressed environment, a dense web of...
For scholars and practitioners of the international economy, conflict and underdevelopment are two increasingly intertwined phenomena. Concerned about low-income countries? Two-thirds of them now fall...
Finance ministers attending the recent Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank clearly heard the alarm that Indermit Gill and Kenan Karakülah sounded on...
On July 21, 2021, billionaire Jeff Bezos rocketed about 65 miles above the Earth’s crust. Another billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, did the same nine days...
Economic integration with the rest of the world has eluded the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It accounts for 5.5 percent of the world’s...
