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Trade in Action

Jun 12, 2015

TTIP Action – June 2

By Global Business & Economics Program

European Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström Speeches & Official Announcements National Parliaments: Vital for Trade and TTIP “We have no intention of lowering regulatory protections or of giving companies a veto over our future EU or Member States’ policy space and actions. I am 100 percent sure that these things would not pass the European […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

EconoGraphics

Jun 9, 2015

Where Do Trillion-Dollar Asset Managers Hail From?

By Global Business and Economics

Of the 16 investment firms in the world that hold more than $1 trillion in assets, the US leads with 12 representatives, including well-known firms like BlackRock, Vanguard Group, and the asset management arms of Goldman Sachs and Bank of New York Mellon.

Economy & Business France

In the News

Jun 3, 2015

Hruby: Despite Setbacks, Africa is Still Rising

By Aubrey Hruby

Africa Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Aubrey Hruby writes for How We Made it in Africa on why despite plummeting commodity prices and increasing insecurity, Africa is still on the rise:

East Africa Economy & Business

EconoGraphics

Jun 2, 2015

How big is the opportunity to increase US exports in the Transpacific Partnership?

By Global Business & Economics

Data from 2014 shows that while American exports to the 11 other TPP nations totaled more than half a trillion dollars in absolute terms, there remains considerable room for improvement in relative terms

Americas Australia
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Trade in Action

May 29, 2015

TTIP Action | May 28

By Global Business & Economics Program

The European Parliament in Strasbourg Speeches & Official Announcements TTIP: More US Market Access, Reform Investment Protection, Retain EU Standards Members of the EP Trade Committee voted on draft recommendations to the negotiators of the EU-US trade deal on Thursday, approving them in committee by 28 votes to 13 with no abstentions. They noted that […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

AfricaSource

May 29, 2015

Reasons for Cheer in Election of African Development Bank’s New President

By J. Peter Pham

On Thursday, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwumi Adesina, was elected the new President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) during the fiftieth annual meeting of the multilateral financial institution in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The choice of the dapper, bow tie-sporting 55-year-old economist is not only a personal victory of the man, but […]

Economy & Business Nigeria

EconoGraphics

May 26, 2015

Who Will Finance Ukraine?

By Global Business & Economics Program

Ukraine's economic stability is uncertain as the conflict with Russia endures. Alongside the negative impacts to growth, exports, and investment, the level of Ukraine's debts are especially worrisome.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia
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NATOSource

May 22, 2015

The Leadership Gap in the West

By Julianne Smith, Berlin Policy Journal

The West seems to have forgotten, though, that it did not come to be the architect of the global system in the 1940s and 1950s by avoiding risk and relying on conventional approaches.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia
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Trade in Action

May 21, 2015

TTIP Action | May 21

By Global Business & Economics Program

TPA cleared a major hurdle in the Republican-controlled Senate today, with a 62-38 vote ending debate on the bill and moving it toward a final vote in the House. Yesterday, the Atlantic Council’s Global Business and Economics Program bid farewell to the “founding father” of TTIP Action, Garrett Workman, Associate Director at the Global Business […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
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Trade in Action

May 20, 2015

TTIP Action | May 19

By Global Business & Economics Program

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan on CNN’s State of the Union with Brianna Keilar Speeches & Official Announcements Ryan on State of the Union: For ‘More Jobs and Better Wages,’ We Need Trade “The other part is there’s going to be 3.2 billion people in the middle class by Asia by the […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

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