Global Economic Governance

view

Trans-Pacific Partnership in doubt, but does it matter?

The Peterson Institute in Washington has published a report on the international trade policies enunciated by the two US presidential candidates during their campaigns. Its conclusion: Clinton's proposed trade and international economic policies would damage American well-being, primarily but not

By Stephen Grenville

view

If you want my opinion...

G20 summits are a busy time for scholars of global economic governance. There is a surprisingly small pool of us around the world who look at these issues day in, day out, and there are literally thousands of journalists whose minds are either turning to the G20 for the first time, or for the first

view

Asian central banks should 'keep calm and carry on'

Originally published in the Nikkei Report.

By Stephen Grenville

view

Capital controls: Australia still needs an Iceland option

I was happy to see Acting Deputy Secretary Justin Brown elaborate on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's thinking in regard to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) last week on The Interpreter. To recap, back in February I discussed one of my TPP misgivings: I think the TPP does not

By Leon Berkelmans

view

Fed rate hike: time now for central banks to go back to basics on monetary policy

Ever since the 'taper tantrum' in May 2013, global financial markets have been on tenterhooks, anxiously anticipating the first increase in US interest rates in almost a decade. Now it's happened and the sky hasn't fallen in. Perhaps, as one market observer has suggested, we can start obsessing

By Stephen Grenville

view

IMF reforms pass Congress but too late to salvage US leadership credentials

The US Congress has finally passed long awaited IMF governance reforms. President Obama claimed it as a victory for the White House that will strengthen 'America's leadership of the IMF'. USA Today reported 'Congress finally preserves US leadership in global finance'. Some leadership. With the US

By Mike Callaghan

view

Australia and the US: good friends can sometimes differ in global economic diplomacy

It's not often that Canberra's senior bureaucrats provide a sustained critique of the functioning of global economic diplomacy. But Martin Parkinson did just that a week ago in the 5th Warren Hogan Memorial Lecture, using the extra freedom he had while 'between jobs', after he was dismissed in

By Stephen Grenville

view

China's Belt and Road initiative likely to bypass Australia

China's Belt and Road initiative – a vast array of promised Chinese investments in transport, energy and communications across Eurasia and Africa – is emerging as one of the key foreign policy priorities of Xi Jinping's presidency. President Xi Jinping and then President of Sri Lanka Mahinda

By Ben Herscovitch

view

'The Courage to Act': What Bernanke saw at the global financial crisis

Ben Bernanke was a member of the US Federal Reserve Board in the tumultuous period from 2002 until 2014 and Chairman from 2006 to 2014. His version of this period is told in The Courage to Act, his 600-page meeting-by-meeting account. This degree of detail would overload a reader who just wanted to

By Stephen Grenville

view

Syrian refugee crisis: Time for the G20 to step up

By the Lowy Institute's G20 Fellow Tristram Sainsbury and Research Associate Casper Wuite. Chatham House's Paola Subacchi recently asked why the G20 has not addressed the Syrian refugee crisis. She acknowledges that refugee issues have not historically been within the G20's bailiwick. However, she

Wolf Warrior II: Chinese exceptionalism is box office gold

India feeling the heat on Belt and Road

O Canada! Australia's best hope in the global IP struggle

Search

Institute - Top Menu

Kori Schake and Thomas Wright on the future of US global policy under the Trump administration

Michael Fullilove and James Curran on Australia’s uneasy alliance

Pragmatic but wary globalists: Australians and the 2017 Lowy Institute Poll

Global Economic Governance

Trans-Pacific Partnership in doubt, but does it matter?

If you want my opinion...

Asian central banks should 'keep calm and carry on'

Capital controls: Australia still needs an Iceland option

Fed rate hike: time now for central banks to go back to basics on monetary policy

IMF reforms pass Congress but too late to salvage US leadership credentials

Australia and the US: good friends can sometimes differ in global economic diplomacy

China's Belt and Road initiative likely to bypass Australia

'The Courage to Act': What Bernanke saw at the global financial crisis

Syrian refugee crisis: Time for the G20 to step up

Pages

Useful Links

Contact Us

Our Location