As wars, trade spats, and AI reshape the global economy, the IMF has held its role as the world’s lender-of-last-resort steady. Much of its governance, including countries’ shares of voting rights, ha...

China's retreat from lending to developing countries has come at precisely the wrong time for the global economy.

China's retreat from lending to developing countries has come at precisely the wrong time for the global economy.

Volume 16, issue 2 of the journal Journal of Globalization and Development was published in 2025.

Countries in the Global South increasingly view President Trump’s “America First” foreign economic policies as both a coercive force and a catalyst for greater economic autonomy.

Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - China and the Global Economic Order

FPI Senior Fellow Gregory Chin and co-author Professor Kevin Gallagher discuss their new book with Professor David M. Lampton.

By Kevin P. Gallagher For decades now, China has advanced a big push in both policy innovation and public investment to become the global leader in low carbon technology trade. While deploying these i...

Ricardo Hausmann laments how the field’s appetite for imaginative problem-solving has given way to narrow, testable hypotheses.

How do we prepare for a world of constant shocks—climate disasters, financial crises, pandemics, conflict, and inequality?

Kevin P. Gallagher, José Antonio Ocampo and Kunal Sen explain why the current global financial architecture fails to meet low- and middle-income countries' needs.

Kevin P. Gallagher, José Antonio Ocampo and Kunal Sen explain why the current global financial architecture fails to meet low- and middle-income countries' needs.

A reformed global agenda built on public foundations

More than 90% of all low-carbon technology trade is between high-income countries and China

World’s top producer of metal used in electric vehicle batteries moves to counteract ‘overabundance of supply’

The Trump administration’s deep cuts to clean-energy programs are raising concerns about U.S. commitments to the lender.

Dani Rodrik weighs the trade-offs between combating climate change, global poverty, and rich countries’ middle-class decline.

Through no fault of their own, Africa is facing a debt crisis

Stanley J. Stein, Shane J. Hunt, Principal Currents in the Economic Historiography of Latin America, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 31, No. 1, The Tasks of Economic History (Mar., 1971), pp. 222-253