China: The Morphing Dragon

The metamorphosis of the dragon may involve painful growing pains, including the risks of a hard landing that many analysts attribute to the current transition. The forthcoming two decades are setting the next stage of a half-century that could be marked by dramatic economic transformation, creating both challenges and opportunities for  China and the rest of the world.

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Wilson Center – How to Improve Brazil’s Industrial Growth and Export Performance

  How to Improve Brazil's Industrial Growth and Export Performance https://youtu.be/jnBvogssgQQ Low industrial productivity growth and disappointing export performances are the center of an economic policy debate raging in Brazil.…

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In this Jan.10, 2011 photo, shipping containers are loaded on a ship for export at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. The U.S. trade deficit widened in December, closing out a year in which America's trade gap ballooned by the largest amount in a decade.(AP Photo/Noaki Schwartz)

Facilitating Trade, Facilitating Development

  In 2001, trade representatives from around the world first arrived in Doha, the capital of tiny Qatar, for the latest round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. The goal…

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