Global Economy

A currency dealer counts Moroccan dirhams in a photo illustration at a currency exchange in Casablanca, Morocco, June 29, 2017. Picture taken June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal/Illustration - RTX3B9S7

Global Economy

The uncoverd interest parity puzzle (UIP): Evidence from major currencies

Theodore Pelagidis and Athanasios Petsas

June, 2017

Pro-government protesters chant slogans while holding Egyptian national flags as they walk near the seaside on the fifth anniversary of the uprising that ended the 30-year reign of Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt, January 25, 2016. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih - RTX23Y78

Future Development

Inequality of opportunity in Egypt

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

L’Aide pour le Commerce?Panorama 2015

By World Trade Organization WTO

2017

La Ayuda para el Comercio en Síntesis 2015

By World Trade Organization WTO

2017

Reports

Newly manufactured cars of the automobile maker Honda await export at port in Yokohama, south of Tokyo June 23, 2015. Japanese manufacturing activity contracted slightly in June as new orders fell and output growth slowed in a sign the economy may have lost some momentum. REUTERS/Toru Hanai - RTX1HO9G

Global Economy

Measuring and analyzing the impact of GVCs on economic development

David Dollar, Satoshi Inomata, Christophe Degain, MENG Bo, Zhi Wang, Nadim Ahmad, Annalisa Primi, Hubert Escaith, Jakob Engel, Daria Taglioni, Cecilia Heuser, Aaditya Mattoo, Matthew Kidder, Michele Ruta, and Jose Guilherme Reis

Monday, July 10, 2017

Rigging equipment is pictured in a field outside of Sweetwater, Texas.

Energy Industry

Nobody knew border carbon adjustments could be so complicated

Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris, Peter J. Wilcoxen, and Weifeng Liu

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

People carry flags in front of statues of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung (L) and late leader Kim Jong Il during a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang April 15, 2017. The men carrying flags are wearing North Korean university uniforms. The float containing the statues is often marks the start of a section of the parade led by people chosen to represent ordinary citizens, as opposed to soldiers or military equipment. Once the parade is over, and the float has completed its official function, a large white sheet is placed over each statue in order to preserve the Supreme Dignity of each figure as the float meanders its way back through the city amid normal traffic. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj SEARCH "PARADE WID" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RTS12G64

Global Economy

Modelling the economic impacts of Korean unification

Warwick J. McKibbin, Jong-Wha Lee, Weifeng Liu, and Cheol Jong Song

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shortly after the opening bell in New York, U.S., January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RTX2Z06Y

Developing Economies

April 2017 Update to TIGER: Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery

Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda

Sunday, April 16, 2017

FILE PHOTO: A Chinese 100 yuan banknote is placed under a $100 banknote (top) in this photo illustration taken in Beijing in this November 7, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic/File Photo - RTX34ASP

Global Economy

China’s emerging institutional statecraft

G. John Ikenberry and Darren Lim

April 2017

Blog Posts

Workers of Leoni industries assemble electric parts for vehicles to be exported to Brazil in San Lorenzo, Paraguay December 15, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno - RTS1084K

Order from Chaos

Global value chains provide new opportunities to developing countries

David Dollar

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

A computer user poses in front of a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Brussels May 30, 2014. Google has taken the first steps to meet a European ruling that citizens can have objectionable links removed from Internet search results, a ruling that pleased privacy campaigners but raised fears that the right can be abused to hide negative information. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - RTR3RK9T

Future Development

Future Development Reads: Books on digital transformation for your summer reading list

Wolfgang Fengler

Friday, July 14, 2017

Adelie penguins stand atop a block of melting ice on a rocky shoreline at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, in East Antarctica, January 1, 2010. Picture taken January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Pauline Askin - RTX30VPD

Future Development

The danger of dismissing market failures

Vinod Thomas

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

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