This chapter draws attention to the potential of safeguards in a system with a variable geometry. Section 1 considers the benefits from safeguards, but also the need to discipline their use.
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth.
This paper employs high frequency transactions data on the world's two oldest and most extensive centralized peer-to-peer Bitcoin markets, enabling trade in the currencies of more than 160 countries.
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.
In the late 1980s, most of the world still associated Vietnam with resistance and war, hardship, refugees, and a mismanaged planned economy.
Taiwan has inherent military value, and thus its fate will in large part determine the U.S. military’s ability to operate in the region.
This chapter traces changing Chinese ideas of the “global” as expressed through successive ideas of the place of China in world order: Jiang Tingfu’s vision for postwar China in the Bretton Woods era,
Dramatic reductions in refugee resettlement numbers, restrictions on asylum access and growing externalisation of humanitarian protection have significantly curtailed legal migration pathways for dist
This paper shows that China has launched a new global system for cross-border rescue lending to countries in debt distress.
Crisis looms for the planet. In November 2022, world leaders met in Egypt at the UN’s annual forum on climate change, known as the Conference of the Parties.
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