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Econographics
Jun 6, 2025
The search for safe assets
By
Hung Tran
The deterioration of the US fiscal outlook has put international investors, especially foreign central banks, in a quandary. There is no good alternative to US Treasuries as safe reserve assets.
Econographics
May 29, 2025
After partial relief, what’s next for Syria sanctions?
By
Alex Zerden
Syria remains a high-risk jurisdiction due to years of conflict, endemic corruption, state institution collapse, narcotrafficking of captagon, insufficient anti-money laundering efforts, and inadequate financing of terrorism controls.
Sinographs
Jun 2, 2025
Hong Kong highlights China’s policy of decoupling from US financial markets
By
Jeremy Mark
The political benefits of an international financial center with Chinese characteristics will outweigh the pain that decoupling inflicts on China’s private sector.
New Atlanticist
May 27, 2025
What’s the Trump administration’s dollar strategy? It depends on who you ask.
By
Alisha Chhangani
Within the White House, there appear to be competing and fractured views of the dollar’s role. This dissonance could result in harm to the currency’s long-term dominance.
Issue Brief
Jun 6, 2025
How Japanese economic statecraft has shifted from promotion to protection
By
Charles Lichfield
Japan is in a geopolitically challenging neighborhood and is witnessing the basic tenets of its foreign policy—from alignment with the United States to fostering a rules-based environment—come under unprecedented stress.
New Atlanticist
Jun 6, 2025
Even as courts step in, Trump still has plenty of tariff options. US trading partners should intensify negotiations.
By
Brian Janovitz
Section 301 may entail more work for the White House, but it could provide a relatively straightforward pathway to broad-based tariffs.
In-Depth Research
Report
Oct 22, 2024
The economic and social costs of the war in Gaza
By
Perrihan Al-Riffai
After a year of war, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and neighboring countries need a permanent ceasefire. But with development gains erased, billions of dollars in infrastructure damaged, and skyrocketing unemployment, the Middle East also urgently needs a solid reconstruction plan.
Report
Oct 9, 2024
End of the line: The cost of faltering reforms
By
Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center and Rhodium Group
The China Pathfinder project examines whether China’s economy is converging or diverging with the world’s leading open market economies.
Issue Brief
Sep 20, 2024
Toward a financial inclusion agenda for the global majority
By
Nicole Goldin
Policymakers, investors, and innovators must advance a new financial inclusion agenda designed for the global majority.
Report
Sep 9, 2024
Sharing the post carbon economy means building a resilient EV supply chain
By
Sarah Bauerle Danzman
In this report Sarah Bauerle Danzman advances the policy discussion by compiling trade, investment, and EV industrial policy data across the G20, and offers six recommendations to the G20 to build a resilient EV supply chain.
Report
Jun 7, 2024
Reconstructing Ukraine at war: The journey to prosperity starts now
By
John E. Herbst, Olga Khakova, Charles Lichfield
Rebuilding the Ukrainian economy after Russia’s full-scale invasion will be a monumental task. Reconstruction can’t wait for peace and must be a well-coordinated, inclusive process.
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