Policy Briefs

• “Small is Beautiful”: A New Era in China’s Overseas Development Finance?

  January 2023

• Understanding China’s Global Power: 2022 Update

  October 2022

• Can the World Trade Organization Survive a Polarizing World? Three Possible Futures for the Global Trade and Investment Regime

  September 2022

• China’s Interest-Free Loans to Africa: Uses and Cancellations

  September 2022

• The Potential for Early Coal Plant Retirement: Workshop Summary

  July 2022

• The Energy Charter Treaty’s Protection of 1.5°C-incompatible Oil and Gas Assets

  June 2022

• Debt Distress and Development Finance in the COVID-19 Era

  May 2022

• No One Left Behind? COVID-19 and the Shortcomings of the Global Financial Safety Net for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  April 2022

• Chinese Loans to Africa During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  April 2022

• What Role for China’s Policy Banks in Latin America and the Caribbean?

  March 2022

• China-Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Bulletin, 2022 Edition

  March 2022

• China Overseas Finance Inventory Database – Technical Note

  March 2022

• Outlier or New Normal? Trends in China’s Global Energy Finance

  March 2022

• Access to Family Planning Services Improves Child Growth Patterns and Cognitive Development: Findings from the Malawi Family Planning Study

  March 2022

• Global Risks and Investment Uncertainty: Chinese Global Energy Finance in 2018

  February 2022

• China’s Global Energy Finance, 2019

  February 2022

• Working to Avoid the Kindleberger Trap: China-US Collaboration on Development Finance

  December 2021

• Up in the Air: Potential Implications of Xi Jinping’s Green Energy and No-Overseas-Coal Announcement

  November 2021

• Lights On: The State of International Development Finance, Coal and Green Energy

  November 2021

• Understanding Women’s Preferences for and Use of Family Planning in Urban Malawi

  October 2021

• Increased Access to Postpartum Family Planning Services Encourages Modern Contraceptive Use and Healthy Birth Spacing

  October 2021

• Zambia’s Chinese Debt in the Pandemic Era

  October 2021

• Risk Reversal: Accelerating Reform for Environmental Management of China’s Overseas Development Finance

  October 2021

• Resetting the Global Financial Safety Net for the COVID-19 Recovery

  October 2021

• Understanding the Consequences of IMF Surcharges: The Need for Reform

  October 2021

• Can Escazú Turn Mining Green in the Lithium Triangle? Lofty Promises Meet a Thirsty Industry in the Desert

  August 2021

• Who Funds Overseas Coal Plants? The Need for Transparency and Accountability

  July 2021

• Towards the Marginalization of Multilateral Crisis Finance? The Global Financial Safety Net and COVID-19

  April 2021

• Twenty Years of Data on China’s Africa Lending

  March 2021

• Global Development Policy Center – Database Methodology Guidebook

  March 2021

• Climate Change and IMF Surveillance: The Need for Ambition

  March 2021

• Vaccinating the World: Waiving Intellectual Property Rules on COVID-19 Products

  March 2021

• China’s Global Energy Finance, 2020

  February 2021

• The Global Financial Safety Net Tracker: Lessons for the COVID-19 Crisis from a New Interactive Dataset

  November 2020

• Expanding the Global Financial Safety Net

  November 2020

• China’s Global Power Database – Methodology Note

  October 2020

• Understanding China’s Global Power

  October 2020

• Is China the Villain? Jobs, Wages and Building a Better U.S. Policy toward China

  October 2020

• The Need to Extend the WTO TRIPS Pharmaceuticals Transition Period for LDCs in the COVID-19 Era: Evidence from Bangladesh

  September 2020

• Growing Share of Online Trade Undercuts Government Ability to Pull-in Revenue

  July 2020

• Building the Future of Quality Infrastructure

  June 2020

• Responding to Climate Change Through Proactive Prudential Supervision

  April 2020

• China-Latin American Economic Bulletin, 2020 edition

  March 2020

• Scaling Back: Chinese Development Finance in Latin American and Caribbean, 2019

  March 2020

• China’s Global Energy Finance (CGEF) 2019

  February 2020

• The Varieties of Chinese Capital in the Developing World

  October 2019

• If Women Receive More Childcare Support, Will They Work?

  September 2019

• Jump Starting the African Monetary Fund

  July 2019

• July 2019 Summit of the African Union: Jump-starting the African Monetary Fund

  July 2019

• Trade Treaties & Access to Medicines: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?

  June 2019

• Small Gains & Big Risks: Evaluating the Proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement

  June 2019

• Sustainable Infrastructure to Secure the Natural Capital of the Amazon

  May 2019

• Managing Risk in Chinese Overseas Development: Lessons for the Andean Amazon

  March 2019

• Strengthening the International Monetary Fund for Stability and Sustainable Development

  March 2019

• Scaling Development Finance for Our Common Future

  July 2018

• Scaling Development Finance for Our Common Future

  July 2018

• Slowing Down, Powering Up: 2017 Chinese Energy Development Finance

  March 2018

• Twenty Years of Progress at Risk: Labor and Environmental Protections in Trade Agreements

  October 2017

• Developing Countries Lead the way for Global Economic Governance

  October 2017

• To Eliminate Deforestation in South America, Reduce Differences in Regulations Across Regions and Actors

  May 2017

• China’s Global Energy Finance Database 2016

  March 2017

• Infrastructure for Sustainable Development: The Role of National Development Banks

  October 2016

• Repositioning Chinese Development Finance in Latin America: Opportunities for Green Finance

  August 2016

• China goes global with development banks

  April 2016

• TTIP and Climate Change: Low Economic Benefits, Real Climate Risks

  December 2015

• Investment Provisions in Trade and Investment Treaties: The Need for Reform

  September 2015

• The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Regulating Capital Flows

  April 2015

• Capital Account Liberalization in China: A Cautionary Tale

  July 2014

• Governing for sustainability in agricultural-forest frontiers: A case study of the Brazilian Amazon

  January 2014

• Capital Flow Management and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

  January 2014

• UNCTAD-GEGI Policy Brief: Workshop on Capital Account Regulations and Global Economic Governance

  November 2013

• Safeguarding United States’ Trade and Investment Treaties for Financial Stability

  August 2013

• Profiting from Precaution: How China’s Policy Banks Can Enhance Social and Environmental Standards

  July 2013

• Navigating Volatile Capital Flows in Brazil and Chile

  June 2012

• China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

  October 2010