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WORKING PAPERS
February 08, 2024
A fracturing of the institutional infrastructure undergirding globalization would harm efforts to cope with urgent national problems and international crises. The imperative for the leading economic powers is to defuse threats to globalization and to promote resilience of global value chains. The fl...
POLICY PAPERS
October 02, 2023
Development economics is turning a full circle with a difference. This paper addresses the circling back to the policies in vogue during the 1980s and earlier, including industrial policies, coupled with protectionism; accounts for the regression to earlier certitudes after an extended spell of glob...
Blog Post
June 08, 2023
Climate change will make many areas less easily habitable. Periodically, a call is made to give people moving out of those areas a particular set of rights: to establish a new protection category, a 21st-century ‘climate migrant’ status to match the asylum rights formalised in 1951. This call was re...
Blog Post
May 09, 2023
The climate-migration nexus is complex. Migration is not monocausal, and climate shocks are not the most important factors affecting movement: networks, education, resources, and other considerations all play a role in determining how people make migration choices. Complexity, however, is not a just...
POLICY PAPERS
May 09, 2023
Climate change has major ramifications for migration at every level. While most migration affected by climate change will be internal, the international system is unprepared and inadequate for the needs that will arise. Migration can be a valuable tool for adaptation, but action is needed if its po...
CGD NOTES
May 03, 2023
The productivity drought and the unending search for GDP growth by high- and middle-income countries has drawn attention to the flagging vigor of large incumbent corporations and the need to groom a crop of "unicorns"—highly valued, entrepreneurial, superstar firms can potentially dial up competitio...