Tag: Finance
31 Articles
- Dialogues
Investment and Statecraft: The International Politics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
GJIA: When it comes to the roles sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) play in global markets and politics, what would you say makes them unique? Kathryn Lavelle: Sovereign wealth funds …
February 1, 2026
- Business & Economics
De-dollarization, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Future of the Chinese Yuan
Introduction China no longer seeks a global yuan due to the actions of state-owned companies and Chinese individuals moving money abroad. In 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative …
April 18, 2024
- Business & Economics
The Role of Sovereign Green Bonds in Chile’s Development
What are green bonds? Green bonds, issued for the first time in 2007 by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the World Bank, represent a major financial innovation of the last…
October 16, 2023
- Dialogues
The Neglected Historical Origins of Global Economic Governance: A Conversation with Jamie Martin
GJIA: How did you come about writing your book, The Meddlers? JM: The fundamental question posed by The Meddlers, as I began research on it, was how did the international…
May 3, 2023
- Business & Economics
Leveraging Climate Finance for the Global South: A Case Study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
At the end of July 2022, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) attracted global opprobrium when it announced an auction for oil and gas leasing rights to thirty parcels of…
April 5, 2023
- Business & Economics
The Economic Prospects of the Transnistrian Peace Settlement after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Introduction After Vladimir Putin launched what he depicted as “the special military operation” in Ukraine in February of 2022, many analysts predicted that the…
April 4, 2023
- Conflict & Security
The Growing Use of Cryptocurrencies by Transnational Organized Crime Groups in Latin America
Across Latin America, transnational criminal organizations, transnational gangs, and extra-regional actors supporting authoritarian regimes are exploiting growing cracks in the…
March 20, 2023
- Business & Economics
State-Owned Enterprises’ Responses to China’s Carbon Neutrality Goals and Implications for Foreign Investors
SOEs as two-faced actors in China’s climate actions SOEs play a wide variety of roles within China’s national settings. There are 97 central SOEs directly overseen by the…
February 15, 2023
- Business & Economics
Central America’s Economic Recovery from COVID-19
Central America has often been described as a mosaic—a mixture of different cultures and viewpoints in a small area of just 201,497 square meters. It has experienced internal…
February 6, 2023
- Business & Economics
Will the Belt and Road Initiative Be Another Casualty of the Pandemic?
China’s grand infrastructure development strategy, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, at least when measured by the amount…
November 11, 2022