Blogs&Reviews

Yes, medical gear depends on global supply chains. Here's how to keep them moving
Anabel González, 01 April 2020

Anabel González makes the case for a compact to encourage global production and distribution of medical supplies.
The coronavirus and financial stability
Arnoud Boot, Elena Carletti, Rainer Haselmann, Hans‐Helmut Kotz, Jan Pieter Krahnen, Loriana Pelizzon, Stephen Schaefer, Marti Subrahmanyam, 24 March 2020

The virus epidemic carries the risk of a financial pandemic which may even spiral into a global phenomenon, strenghtening the case for some form of a joint and mutual insurance scheme
Trump's trade policy is hampering the US fight against COVID-19
Chad Bown, 16 March 2020

Chad Bown argues that President Trump's administration should permanently and comprehensively suspend the trade war tariffs on critical medical products from China
Limiting the economic fallout of the coronavirus with large targeted policies
Gita Gopinath, 12 March 2020

Gita Gopinath argues that substantial targeted policies are needed to support the economy through the COVID-19 epidemic

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The crisis in world trade

Sait Akman, Shiro Armstrong, Carlos Primo Braga, Uri Dadush, Anabel González, Fukunari Kimura, Junji Nakagawa, Peter Rashish, Akihiko Tamura, 04 September 2019

A T20 Task Force on Trade, Investment and Globalization policy brief argues that the world trading system has been remarkably successful in many respects but that the present strain reflects causes which are deep-seated and require a strategic response.
Global digital trade negotiations: The outlook has dimmed but the US has options

Claude Barfield, 25 July 2019

Digital trade negotiations are playing out on a number of levels. Claude Barfield offers a list of priorities for the US in these negotiations.
Trump's mini-trade war with India

Chad Bown, 22 July 2019

Successive US administrations have tried to pry open India's markets by offering trade concessions to get it to play by the multilateral rules. But as Chad Bown describes, President Trump is now reversing course.
Is Brexit a culture war or a class war?

Simon Wren-Lewis, 11 July 2019

Simon Wren-Lewis argues that the conceptualisation of Brexit as essentially a culture war and not a class war is powerful and contains a lot of truth, but it leaves some puzzles unresolved.
The EU-Mercosur trade accord sends a signal to the world’s protectionists

Anabel González, 05 July 2019

Anabel González describes how the agreement between the EU and Mercosur to lower trade barriers is an important accomplishment for both parties