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This Decade’s Best Chance to Get Debt Sustainability Right: Necessary Changes in the Review of the Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries
By Tim Hirschel-Burns For the first time in nearly 10 years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have Read more

Carbon Price Equivalents of Non-Pricing Mitigation Policies: A Study of China
Carbon pricing is widely regarded as the most efficient instrument for climate mitigation, and the carbon prices of individual countries Read more

Why Development Finance Falls Short—and How It Can Better Serve the Global South
By Zheng Zhai and Kevin P. Gallagher Countries across the Global South need a stepwise increase in investment to improve Read more

International Investment Pushes Past and Present, Part 1: The Marshall Plan
By Tim Hirschel-Burns This blog is part of a blog series on past large-scale international investment programs and the lessons Read more

Green Growth or Commodity Dependence? The LAC-China Relationship in 2025
By Rebecca Ray In 2024, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) had a record trade deficit with China, amounting to Read more

Can Carbon Taxes Close Latin America and the Caribbean’s Climate Finance Gap?
By Daniel Titelman As temperatures in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) heat up, economies in the region are cooling Read more

China-Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Bulletin, 2025 Edition
In 2024, China’s relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continued to grow, especially in the emerging sectors of Read more

How Has China Helped the Green Transformation Along the Belt and Road: Four Channels
By Yan Wang As the deadline for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) draws near, the world economy faces Read more

Greening the Belt and Road with Four Underlying Mechanisms
With five years to go before the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deadline, official statements have stressed that only 18 percent Read more

International Investment Pushes Past and Present: Introducing the Blog Series
By Tim Hirschel-Burns Political winds may have shifted in some major powers, but reality has not: a global investment push Read more