Global Development and Trade
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A worrisome global scenario draws on a study by Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke on the effect of climate change on economic inequality.
October 05, 2020
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"There's just a lot of things that say [poverty in China] is going to be a persistent problem," said Scott Rozelle, co-director of Stanford's Rural Education Action Program.
July 02, 2020
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Co-sponsored by and the Stanford Economics Association, the COVID-19 Policy Hackathon drew more than 800 participants from 78 countries.
June 22, 2020
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"It will be extraordinarily hard to reach a consensus on a new director general when there isn’t any underlying consensus among members on what the WTO is supposed to do," [...]
June 17, 2020
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“The abruptness of this shock [COVID-19] is much larger than the 2008 global financial crisis,” said Ramin Toloui, an assistant Treasury secretary for international finance [...]
June 01, 2020
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"In China, just two months of reduced pollution is likely to have saved the lives of 4,000 children under the age of 5 and 73,000 adults over the age of 70," says Marshall Burke.
March 27, 2020
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"The reductions in air pollution in China [...] likely saved 20 times more lives in China than have currently been lost due to infection with the virus in that country."
March 17, 2020
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China’s coronavirus lockdown likely saved tens of thousands of lives by slashing air pollution from factories and vehicles, according to new analysis by Marshall Burke.
March 16, 2020
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According to Sr Fellow David Lobell of Stanford’s Center on Food Security & the Environment, dry tropical regions are vulnerable to the worst impacts of climate change [...]
February 24, 2020
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Senior Fellow Pete Klenow discusses how population growth, trade, Big Tech, and innovations might affect America’s capacity for economic growth.
January 21, 2020
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How is Brexit-related uncertainty influencing the UK economy? senior fellow Nicholas Bloom shares research insights on how Brexit is already impacting UK firms.
September 04, 2019
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Summit highlights trade, tech and THC
As ominous as some of the topics were at the Economic Summit, they are among some of today’s most pressing policy questions.
March 12, 2019