RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz, February 04, 2010, 'The Next American Economy' Conference, Palo Alto, California
The recession has unveiled an economy dangerously out of whack: frenzied with consumption, wasteful in its use of energy, more adept at increasing inequity than sharing prosperity and more successful at exacerbating rather than easing divisions between Wall Street and Main Street, says Bruce Katz. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mauricio Cárdenas, January 21, 2010, The Brookings Institution
As President Obama completes his first year in office, Mauricio Cárdenas evaluates the administration’s policies toward Latin America. While the president’s popularity in the region remains high, Cárdenas stresses the need for a concrete, working agenda to maintain strong hemispheric partnerships and tackle key challenges, including trade, immigration, and renewable energy. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Paul Blustein, January 13, 2010, Foreign Policy Magazine
After eight painful years of standstill and failure, the Doha talks might collapse once and for all in 2010. Paul Blustein discusses the critical link between the World Trade Organization and Doha, and how this collapse could mark the death of the global trade system as we know it. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Naoko Munakata, January 13, 2010, The Brookings Institution
Despite the implementation of the pioneering ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement on January 1, 2010, East Asia still lacks a concrete vision for institutional economic integration. Former CNAPS Visiting Fellow Naoko Munakata writes that the ACFTA is the first of a series of agreements that will move forward together and eventually establish a framework for the region. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jian Zhang, January 08, 2010, The Brookings Institution
The 2008-2009 recession has shaken Asian exporting nations’ reliance on the U.S. market, and intra-Asian trade is increasing. CNAPS Visiting Fellow Jian Zhang writes that China and the Republic of Korea appear to be moving toward free trade negotiations, which would increase their bilateral trade and would have implications for the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and others. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Chad P. Bown and Rachel McCulloch, December 22, 2009, The Brookings Institution
Developing countries make up about two thirds of the WTO's members, however many believe that participation has yielded few benefits for these countries. Brookings expert Chad Bown and Brandeis University professor Rachel McCulloch examine developing country participation in the WTO and how introduction of the Advisory Centre on WTO Law into the WTO system in 2001 has affected developing countries' use of the Dispute Settlement Understanding to self-enforce their foreign market access rights. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Barry P. Bosworth and Susan M. Collins, November 23, 2009, Macroeconomic Conference of the Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies
Barry Bosworth and Susan M. Collins examine the issue of how the balance of the U.S. trade deficit might evolve in future years as the economy emerges from the recession, both from the domestic perspective of the saving and investment balance, and from the external side in terms of the basic determinants of exports and imports and the role of the real exchange rate. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Michael Fullilove, November 20, 2009, The Sydney Morning Herald
On the heels of President Obama's recent trip to Asia, Michael Fullilove reassures Australians about the United States' commitment to the Asia-Pacific, saying that they should take the president at face value when he says "Asia and the United States are not separated by this great ocean; we are bound by it." Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Diana Villiers Negroponte, November 12, 2009, The Brookings Institution
In recent months, Colombia has experienced increased isolation from its neighbors in the Western Hemisphere, due to border and military disputes, refusals to cooperate on economic and political fronts and disenchantment with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Diana Negroponte examines the reasons for this isolation, and possible remedies the Obama administration may apply. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Merritt T. Cooke, November 11, 2009, The Brookings Institution
In the inaugural installment of CNAPS’s Taiwan-U.S. Quarterly Analysis series, Terry Cooke explores the causes and effects of Taiwan’s pursuit of economic normalization with China. Articles in this series will be written by leading experts on the U.S.-Taiwan relationship and will contain in-depth analysis of bilateral and multilateral policy challenges for Taipei and Washington. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eswar Prasad and Grace Gu, November 11, 2009, The Brookings Institution
While the economic entanglements between the U.S. and China have increased over the last decade, so has the tension. With President Obama visiting China and other Asian nations, Brookings expert Eswar Prasad and Grace Gu of Cornell University discuss the tightening embrace between the two countries—in terms of flows of goods and services, financial capital and people—and the implications. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, November 09, 2009
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
While developing countries struggle to improve their economic status in an environment of increased globalization and trade, the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement mechanism continues to disproportionately benefit wealthy nations. On November 9, Brookings held a discussion on recent efforts and suggested proposals to help developing countries overcome hurdles imposed by the WTO. Read More
PAST EVENT
Friday, November 06, 2009
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
In mid-November, President Barack Obama began his first trip to Asia as president with a visit to Tokyo. He also traveled to China, South Korea and Singapore, where took part in meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Prior to the president's trip, the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies and the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings hosted a discussion of President Obama’s trip and the issues he was likely to face. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mauricio Cárdenas, October 23, 2009, The Brookings Institution
Only a few regions in the world are more affected by climate change than Latin America. However the region lacks a common perspective and will not be heard in the U.S. Congress or in international deliberations in Copenhagen unless it unifies as a strong voice. Mauricio Cárdenas proposes a formal subgroup of several Latin American countries for cooperation on climate change and points to specific commitments they should consider. Read More
BOOK
Chad P. Bown, October 15, 2009
Self-Enforcing Trade examines the WTO's "extended litigation process," highlighting the tangle of international economics, law, and politics that participants must master. He identifies the costs that prevent developing countries from disentangling the
self-enforcement process and fully using the WTO system as part of their growth strategies. Read More