We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021. We define good jobs as…
Growing up an only child in China at the end of the 20th century, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and CID…
Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined as a share of GDP over recent decades, darkening…
Shipping has long been the invisible hand of world trade, propelling globalization and the growth of emerging economies. Ships move 90…
The future of developing countries lies in services. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services in particular must be an essential…
This chapter draws attention to the potential of safeguards in a system with a variable geometry. Section 1 considers the benefits from…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
Society’s transition toward more sustainable energy sources is well underway. But substantially reducing the use of fossil fuels to…
Efforts to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions must overcome the free-rider problem, and carbon border adjustment measures are the most…