Tag: PIIE

China – China’s lending to emerging markets became more secretive after 2014 (PIIE)

Anna Gelpern (PIIE), Sebastian Horn (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Scott Morris (Center for Global Development), Brad Parks (AidData; Center for Global Development) and...

Global – Peak copper and lithium? The siren song of the peak resource arguments (PIIE)

Cullen S. Hendrix (PIIE) Peak copper and lithium? The siren song of the peak resource arguments | PIIE

USA – Follow the trend: US demand is back, supply is lagging, but both are likely to grow in coming months (PIIE)

Jason Furman (PIIE) and Wilson Powell III (Harvard Kennedy School) Follow the trend: US demand is back, supply is lagging, but both are likely to grow in coming...

Pandemic – Current vaccine proposals are not enough to end the pandemic (PIIE)

Monica de Bolle The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently called for an accelerated global effort to distribute vaccines to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Current vaccine proposals are not...

Hong Kong – Hong Kong as an international financial center (PIIE)

HOST Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) GUESTS Douglas Arner Director of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, University of Hong Kong ...

Sustainability – International cooperation on sustainable finance (PIIE)

HOST Nicolas Véron Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) GUESTS Jörg Kukies State Secretary, German Federal Finance Ministry John Morton Climate Counselor, US Treasury Department Sustainable finance is...

Developing Countries/Trade – Poor countries need trade to recover from the pandemic. How can global cooperation help? (PIIE)

HOST Anabel González Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) GUESTS Mari Elka Pangestu Managing Director of Developing Policy and Partnerships, World Bank Carlos Primo Braga Associate...

China/USA – US-China phase one tracker: China’s purchases of US goods (PIIE)

Chad P. Bown US-China phase one tracker: China’s purchases of US goods | PIIE

(USA) Progress on US jobs reverses in December as labor market remains in bad shape (Jason Furman and Wilson Powell III, PIIE)

The US economy lost 9 million jobs in 2020, the second worst year since 1940 for job loss on a percentage basis. Overall, the...

AFRICA – Memo to the UN Economic Commission for Africa on the continent’s health and economic crisis (Adnan Mazarei, PIIE)

Africa faces a significant combination of health and economic crises. The health toll of the COVID-19 pandemic has been lower than in many other...

LATIN AMERICA – Memo to the Inter-American Development Bank on Latin America’s health, economic, and political challenges (Monica de Bolle, PIIE)

The COVID-19 pandemic struck Latin America in late February 2020. Governments in the region had time to adopt public health strategies, economic rescue plans,...

EUROPE – Memo to the European Commission on concrete initiatives for a more outward-looking, geopolitical Europe (Jean Pisani-Ferry, PIIE)

To: The President of the European Commission Background: In the Political Guidelines you presented to the European Parliament immediately after your designation in July 2019, you set...

IMF/CRISES – Memo on strengthening the role of the International Monetary Fund to enhance global resilience to crises (José De Gregorio, PIIE)

To: The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund José De Gregorio (PIIE) Part of a special PIIE series Rebuilding the Global Economy outlining policy priorities and solutions...