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  From Pledges to Practice: FOCAC 2027 and Africa’s Energy and Climate Future

  By Mengdi Yue Established in 2000, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) has been the primary diplomatic channel through which Read more

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  US “Reciprocal” Trade Agreements and the Seven Sovereignties Constrained for Developing Countries

  By Rachel Thrasher and Tim Hirschel-Burns The United States’ new Agreements on Reciprocal Trade (ARTs) represent a novel form of Read more

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  Is Perception Reality? Evidence from Cross-Language Media Sentiments on the Chinese Economy

  By Marialuz Moreno Badia and Vikram Dixit Kumaraswamy Economists have increasingly turned to news coverage to gauge economic sentiment in Read more

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  Perception Matters: Evidence from Cross-Language Media on the Chinese Economy

  A new working paper from the Boston University Global Development Policy Center developed new cross-language sentiment indices capable of measuring Read more

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  Subsidised Retirement Beats a Buyout for China-backed Coal Plants – and Only China Can Make It Happen

  By Alex Clark In 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a halt to new public funding for coal plants abroad. Read more

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  International Investment Pushes Past and Present: Synthesizing and Concluding the Blog Series

  By Tim Hirschel-Burns This blog is part of a blog series on past large-scale international investment programs and the lessons Read more

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  The Safe Assets Under Central Bankers’ Pillows

  By Marina Zucker-Marques and Kevin P. Gallagher Last month, the world’s major central bankers converged upon Jackson Hole during a Read more

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  Coal to Clean Transition Pathways for Pakistan

  By Zainab Babar, Dr. Khalid Waleed Pakistan's power sector is a study in contradictions: real progress shadowed by unresolved structural Read more