Despite a recent rebound in trade, a prolonged slowdown in the pace of trade reform is leaving in place widespread trade distortions and putting at risk the durability of the global economic recovery. With important exceptions such as the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement, trade reform has lagged since the early 2000s. This joint paper by... Read More
Bitcoin and the hundreds of other virtual currencies that it inspired remain at the fringes of regulation. In this paper by the Center for New American Security, Julia Solomon-Strauss, Edoardo... Read More
The need for reform of the EU is urgent. The authors of this Policy Brief by Bruegel suggest a new governance model, combining a ‘bare-bones EU’ with a 'Europe of clubs'. Such a... Read More
The Belt and Road strategy envisions a more connected world enabled by a web of Chinese-funded physical and digital infrastructure. Yet Daniel Kliman and Abigail Grace reason in this report for... Read More
Denmark, Norway and Sweden have chosen widely different paths in their respective commitments to peace and stabilisation. Each has its own awkward relationship with key western security... Read More
With threats of funding and immigration raids in sanctuary cities, the White House suggests that sanctuary cities are an affront to U.S. sovereignty. In their paper for Open Canada, John... Read More
According to this household survey from 164 countries by the World Bank, since 1995, more than 1.1 billion people have improved their standards of living sufficiently to escape extreme poverty.... Read More
