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Key policy responses from the OECD
OECD The OECD is compiling data, analysis and recommendations on a range of topics to address the emerging health, economic and societal...
Cross-IGO content tracker
SDG Pathfinder This collection of data and reports covers topics related to the role and effectiveness of various policy tools in...
UNOCHA financial tracking service: COVID-19 emergency funding data tracker
UNOCHA The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs provides aggregated tracking of both incoming funding and...
China Laps the U.S. in Latin America with Covid Diplomacy
Mac Margolis, Bloomberg Long before the novel coronavirus hit Latin America, the United States was losing ground in its own hemisphere to...
COVID-19: Implications for businesses
Matt Craven, Linda Liu, Mihir Mysore, Shubham Singhal, Sven Smit, and Matt Wilson, McKinsey & Company The coronavirus outbreak is having...
Why the Compacts of Free Association Matter to Washington
Grant Wyeth, The Diplomat With its eyes on China, the United States seeks to reaffirm its presence in the western Pacific. Last week,...
Microsoft launches initiative to help 25 million people worldwide acquire the digital skills needed
Brad Smith, Microsoft Around the world, 2020 has emerged as one of the most challenging years in many of our lifetimes. In six months,...
Israel company targets opportunities in Europe and Asia for software-defined radios
Seth J. Frantzman, C4Isrnet Israel defense giant Rafael will target armies in Asia and Europe with its software-defined radios, banking...
Artificial intelligence arms race creating multi-billion-dollar opportunity
Baystreet Artificial intelligence is the next big military advantage. For example, in early 2019, the U.S. announced a strategy for...
Post-corona, we’re going to need new diplomacy
Gesu Antonio Baez, Modern Diplomacy Diplomacy – as the art of partnership building it is – is needed now more than ever in order to...
The East Fails Iran
Alex Vatanka, Foreign Policy Tehran pinned its economic hopes on China, India, Japan, and South Korea. But those countries have largely...
China and America Are Heading Toward Divorce
Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times The real story is that China’s standing in America today is lower than at any time since Tiananmen...
Europe crafts a fiscal lifeline
Felix Salmon, Axios Europe came one step closer to the long-held dream of fiscal union this week, as both France and Germany signed on to...
Kenya Gets $1 Billion Financing From World Bank
David Herbling, Bloomberg TheWorld Bank will lend Kenya’s government $1 billion in budget support, its biggest financing package yet for...
The Pandemic’s Geopolitical Aftershocks Are Coming
Tom McTague, The Atlantic Western capitals aren’t just worried about the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases. Read the full article...
Regulating Foreign Investments
Mainly in technologies and national priority areas The pandemic has painfully highlighted the need for independent industries and supply...
China’s Balkan investments are paradoxically speeding region’s EU integration
David Felsen and Dennis Feltwell, Balkan Insight If the EU suddenly seems more interested than it was in integrating the Western Balkans,...
Oil Becomes a Risky Game for Saudis
Karen Elliott House, Wall Street Journal President Trump is playing a tense poker game with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Lower...
Turkey's aid diplomacy
Hilal Kaplan, Daily Sabah “On one hand, Turkey is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic on a national scale, it is also consolidating its...
Deloitte's new venture to serve digital economy
Ding Yining, Shine Deloitte China has unveiled a new high-tech venture Deloitte HiTech Ltd in Shanghai to offer integrated digital...
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