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Global Trade

The international exchange of goods, services and capital in an increasingly interconnected world has many facets, rules and controversies. This channel brings together the latest research and information on global trade, its participants and its challenges.

Summaries

8 Article

6 Reasons Why Global Supply Chains Are Shifting

Political risk, emissions and lead times are just some of the drivers pushing companies toward onshoring, nearshoring and friendshoring decisions.
Edwin Lopez
Supply Chain Dive, 2023
8 Book

The Trade Trap

How To Stop Doing Business with Dictators
Mathias Döpfner
Simon & Schuster, 2023
8 Article
Nadia Rocha and Roberta Piermartini
IMF, 2023
7 Book

Trade Works

The Trade Finance Investor
Andreas Schweitzer
Leaders Press, 2022
8 Book

The Handbook of International Trade and Finance

The Complete Guide to Risk Management, International Payments and Currency Management, Bonds and Guarantees, Credit Insurance and Trade Finance
Anders Grath
Kogan Page, 2012
9 Book

Seed Activism

Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South (Food, Health, and the Environment)
Karine Peschard
MIT Press, 2022
8 Article

Washington’s Xinjiang Fix

What happens when human rights law becomes trade law? Two years after passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, we’re beginning to find out.
Eliot Chen and Katrina Northrop
The Wire China, 2023
8 Article

Tomorrowland

Can India become the de-risking champion multinationals are looking for?
Luke Patey
The Wire China, 2023
9 Article

“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This”: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping

The pandemic has disrupted international trade, driving up the cost of shipping goods and adding a fresh challenge to the global economic recovery.
Peter S. Goodman et al.
The New York Times, 2021
9 Article

The Free-Trade Paradox

The Bad Politics of a Good Idea
Alan S. Blinder
Foreign Affairs, 2018
9 Book
Michael E. Porter
Free Press, 1998
10 Podcast
David Dollar and Eswar Prasad
Brookings Institution, 2019