Economy & Business

The West’s response to Georgia’s foreign agent law should hold the ruling party accountable without punishing the wider Georgian population.

And why payment bans alone aren’t sufficient.

The Biden administration has imposed new tariffs on imports from China across a range of strategic industries. Atlantic Council experts dig into the details.

$280 billion of Russian reserves can be used more strategically–without crossing red lines–to get funding to Ukraine.

The Letta report emphasizes transforming the EU’s fragmented markets by prioritizing harmonization over new financial products, but achieving this requires a significant and sustained effort.

The United States is pushing the G7 to consider a sovereign loan of $50 billion to Ukraine which would be repaid using the interest income on blocked Russian assets. Where does this $50 billion figure come from?

Given China’s current resource advantage, Western countries need to make better use of the IMF and World Bank where doing so is in their interest. If applied more broadly, this approach could provide incentives for other governments to return to multilateral institutions, instead of China, for support.

Fragmentation resulting from geopolitical competition between large economies is posing a serious challenge to the fulfillment of IMF’s core missions. Here’s how it can respond.

The African continent potential to revitalize the world economy and reverse the downward trend in global growth. However, for this to materialize, it needs substantial investments in its physical and social infrastructure.

To improve its global analysis, the IMF should consolidate its conjunctural analysis into a single, shorter, and more pointed report.

The economic statecraft landscape is becoming more complex as transatlantic partners increasingly leverage the tools to counter transnational threats. There is a growing need to understand how these tools are used, by whom, and when, as well as their intended and real impacts worldwide.

New research on possible options and their costs of G7 sanctions on China in the event of a Taiwan Crisis.