The IMF marked its assessment of external imbalances to market, but its model and approach still struggle to get China right.

Gaston Nievas & Thomas Piketty pieced together database on global trade flows from 1800 to 1914 and 1970 to 2025, and found ...

Chinese state banks have been consistently accumulating foreign assets. The direction of pressure on China’s currency has changed; without backdoor intervention, it would now be getting stronger.

The United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions, established in 1945 in a different era, have failed to accommodate the changes in the balance of power since then ...

The recent meeting of the Indian foreign minister with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing is surely a good portent. The two ...

This likely reflects divergent priorities—in Southeast Asia, China’s economic dominance is already a fact of life and, unlike ...

Even as China turns to the region to manage overcapacity and geopolitical headwinds, Southeast Asia will continue to shape trade on its own terms.

Across 25 countries, people increasingly view China as the world's top economy but generally prioritize economic ties with the U.S.

A median of 36% of adults across the 25 countries surveyed have a favorable view of China, while 54% have an unfavorable view ...

Following years of robust output growth, China's poultry industry now faces a serious oversupply crisis. The foreseeable ...

EUR/USD pulls back from two-week high of 1.1761 reached on Tuesday, trading around 1.1740 during the Asian hours on Wednesday ...

How should we analyze the new wave of trade tensions that gripped the world in 2025? To better understand the issues at stake, the World Inequality Lab recently published a historical study on global ...