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New Study Shines a Light on Beijing’s Secretive International Lending Program

An unprecedented cache of documents shows that Chinese loan contracts have unusual secrecy provisions, collateral requirements, and debt renegotiation restrictions.

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The economic impact of punitive US tariffs is increasingly felt in Germany. Tariffs im-posed in 2019 due to Airbus subsidies...

The USA is by far the most important trading partner of the EU and also of Germany. It is likely to maintain its dominant...

For the EU's ambitious climate policy to be successful, the EU must join forces with its most important trading partners in a...

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The distribution of transport infrastructure across space is the outcome of deliberate government planning that reflects a desire to...

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We review a number of developments and trends in the literature on economic sanctions. We discuss salient contributions to the...

Jann Lay, Kerstin Nolte, Kacana Khadjavi

The accelerated growth of large-scale farming operations in developing countries, in particular Africa, has raised concerns that...

Andreas Fuchs, Hannes Öhler

This paper compares the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries...

... Vincent Stamer, an international trade expert at Germany's Kiel Institute for the World Economy, said the delays thus far will...

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Applied microeconometric methods - Sourafel Girma

12 - 16 Apr 2021

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