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With foreign investment in the U.S. increasingly in the spotlight, this working paper by William Cline explores the U.S. external deficit and the fact that the U.S. relies on foreign lending to finance its trade deficit. Cline emphasizes the dangers of a hard landing for the U.S., and why this would especially hurt developing countries that depend on an expanding U.S. economy and are vulnerable to spikes in interest rates. The paper is based on a chapter in Cline’s recent book, The U.S. as a Debtor Nation.
While US negotiators continue to hammer on the European Union to improve its offer on agricultural market access in t
The Commitment to Development Index (CDI), which ranks 21 countries across six policy areas, is widely seen as the most comprehensive and substantive measure of rich country policies towards development. In response to requests from other would-be index builders, CDI architect David Roodman describes the work of the interdisciplinary team that builds and runs the Index. Among the lessons: to work well, policy indexes must combine humility with a clear sense of purpose.
Does openness in trade and the free flow of capital promote growth for the poor? In this new working paper, CGD president Nancy Birdsall describes asymmetries in globalization and their implications for poverty reduction. She argues that poor countries lack effective social contracts, progressive tax systems, and laws and regulations that rich capitalist societies use to manage markets so that free trade and commerce more equally benefit all. These asymmetries also exist at the global level, where poor countries are especially susceptible to the risks of free trade and the vagaries of volatile capital flows.
In the last days before the Hong Kong trade negotiations, where rich-country trade barriers against crops from develo
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"Today, the Administration has indicated its readiness to begin technical discussions Thursday morning with key con
Many in the development research and advocacy communities engaged heavily in the mid-2000s debate over what became th
Under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, eligible countries can export apparel to the United States duty-free, u
Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright and John Podesta, former chief of staff to President Clinton and CEO
How many readers were even aware that a meeting of trade minsters is happening in Geneva later this week?
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