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  • 15 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: From pollie crises to polycrisis

    Greg Earl
    There are political bunfights, strategic challenges and wicked problems, but let’s not “overcrisify” the world.
  • 14 Dec 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Technology

    Why the cryptocurrency ecosystem is a house of cards

    Roland Bouffanais , Sun Sun Lim
    The tumultuous picture surrounding cryptocurrencies this year has been sobering ­– a contagion of negative effects.
  • 1 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Global Issues
    • Qatar
    • United States

    Economic diplomacy: Scoring goals outside the stadium

    Greg Earl
    Shifting geopolitics and economics make picking the diplomatic champion from the Qatar World Cup more challenging.
  • 17 Nov 2022
    • Asean
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: Charging up old ties with Jakarta

    Greg Earl
    Australia has stepped up a trade diversification push despite the first moves towards reconciliation with China.
  • 3 Nov 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Multilateral Institutions

    Economic diplomacy: Searching for APEC

    Greg Earl
    APEC faces some new competition as Australia considers the sovereign risks involved in reducing domestic gas prices.
  • 20 Oct 2022
    • Global Economy
    • IMF
    • Multilateral Development Banks
    • Multilateral Institutions

    Economic diplomacy: The IMF faces a US$ reality check

    Greg Earl
    The Bretton Woods institutions may face existential challenges from the decoupling of the United States and China.
  • 23 Sep 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Multilateral Development Banks
    • Multilateral Institutions

    Six reasons to be cautious about Australia establishing a DFI

    Jenny Gordon
    As soon as public money is on the table, there will be a line of players looking to “clip the ticket”.
  • 15 Sep 2022
    • Global Economy
    • IMF
    • Transnational Challenges

    Digital finance makes international cooperation even more important

    Jenny Gordon
    In a world without physical cash, differing standards for digital currencies risk creating exclusionary trade blocs.
  • 5 Sep 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Digital Disruption
    • International law
    • Technology

    Web3 is coming – with national security implications, too

    Sasha Fegan
    A new internet for the people and by the people is on the horizon. But decentralised power has its own problems.
  • 11 Aug 2022
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Defence & Security
    • Global Economy
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: No free lunches for national security

    Greg Earl
    New foreign investment rules, nuisance tariffs and supply chains are all under scrutiny by the Productivity Commission.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Poverty

    “Silver lining”: Covid‑19 accelerates progress on financial inclusion

    Clay O’Brien
    Access to financial services can be a key to poverty reduction and increased digitisation during lockdowns has helped.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • China's Economy
    • China
    • Global Economy

    Under pressure: Chinese international graduates in a new China

    Angela Lehmann
    Uncertainly about Covid, high unemployment rates and shifting workforce expectations challenge China’s youth in 2022.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • Southeast Asia
    • Asean
    • Global Economy
    • Coronavirus

    ASEAN and pandemic recovery: Economy before strategic rivalry

    Tiara Putri Indira Dewanti
    Southeast Asia needs international support to rebuild from Covid. But help should not come with strings attached.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • Global Economy
    • IMF

    Capital flows to emerging economies

    Stephen Grenville
    The International Monetary Fund’s “free-market” view is questioned by economists, who argue for policy intervention.
  • 30 Jun 2022
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Global Economy

    Economic diplomacy: Names trump numbers in the new BRI debt battle

    Greg Earl
    As G7 leaders talk up infrastructure spending, Australia’s Pacific family members contemplate how much they can take.
  • 1 Jun 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Pacific Islands
    • IMF

    Don’t saddle Pacific Islands with disaster debt

    Luke Fletcher
    It would be immoral for high-emitting countries to put an extra burden on nations suffering more extreme weather events.
  • 21 Apr 2022
    • Global Economy
    • G20
    • IMF
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Economic diplomacy: After Ukraine, the IMF ponders the future

    Greg Earl
    A decoupling world will still need an old-style cooperative rescue service to repair the economic minefields.
  • 24 Mar 2022
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • IMF
    • Russia
    • Technology
    • Ukraine

    Economic diplomacy: Cryptocurrency (quietly) joins a new world order

    Greg Earl
    From Bitcoin to the greenback, beyond Ukraine a battle is also underway in global finance.
  • 10 Mar 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Building back better with frenemies after Ukraine

    Greg Earl
    Foreign policy concepts are subtly infiltrating Australia’s federal election campaign in the shadow of an invasion.
  • 4 Mar 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • Global Economy
    • China
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • Australia
    • European Union
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Back in the USSR – surprises in the Russia-Ukraine conflict

    Tim Harcourt
    It’d be funny, if it wasn’t so deadly serious.
  • 3 Mar 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Global Economy

    Sanctions bite – but how dangerously?

    Roland Rajah
    As long as Russian energy revenues continue to flow, Moscow will retain a critical financial lifeline.
  • 1 Mar 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Will cryptocurrency allow Russia to bust sanctions?

    JJ Rose
    Despite the transparency of blockchain-based finance, Moscow is working the dark reaches of the web to move money.
  • 24 Feb 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Public Opinion
    • United States
    • Trade
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • China
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Economic diplomacy: Slow dividends for Australia from ASEAN spending

    Greg Earl
    Amid the Ukraine sanctions showdown, an Indian trade deal looms as a pre-election win for the Morrison government.
  • 10 Feb 2022
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Mission critical as Australia’s own BRI gains pace

    Greg Earl
    Australia’s new embrace of South Korea in minerals, defence, and trade is well-timed as the country catches up to Japan.
  • 10 Feb 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Review

    US monetary policy: the ripple effect

    Stephen Grenville
    A new book probes the inner workings – and functional failures – of America’s enigmatic central banking system.
  • 27 Jan 2022
    • Global Economy
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • Trade
    • China

    Will the EU step up to secure rules-based Indo-Pacific trade?

    Peter Draper , Naoise McDonagh
    The rivalry with China is systemic and heft is needed to anchor market-orientated trade.
  • 18 Jan 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Pacific Islands

    Bang for buck: Getting the most out of Pacific Islander remittances

    Jessica Collins
    Cash sent by family abroad is essential for local economies but doesn’t come cheap.
  • 14 Jan 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Australia should build its green infrastructure presence

    James Bowen
    The region is taking an increasingly dim view of efforts seeking to protect the fossil fuel trade.
  • 12 Jan 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Review

    History lessons from “The Great Crash”?

    Stephen Grenville
    Optimists always get more airplay than spoilsports predicting an end to the good times. But hindsight tells all.
  • 11 Jan 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Technology
    • Laos

    Kip-to-currency?

    Helen Clark
    One of Asia’s tiny communist nations is looking at blockchain to fuel an economic boom.
  • 21 Dec 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Retro shopping beats the supply chain crisis

    Greg Earl
    WWW Santa beware. The gift trade is still subject to the old-school padded tromp of shoe leather.
  • 16 Dec 2021
    • Global Economy
    • China's Economy
    • China

    Common prosperity meets the Belt and Road

    Henry Storey
    Xi’s emphasis on the “real-economy” could also engender a qualitative shift in the types of investments Beijing makes.
  • 3 Dec 2021
    • Global Economy
    • The Americas
    • China
    • India
    • Russia
    • Africa

    Twenty years of BRICS

    Stephen Grenville
    As analysis by acronym, it has been a stunning success. But for reorganising global economic governance?
  • 2 Dec 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: Free trade vs economic resilience

    Greg Earl
    From Chinese iPhones to university classrooms, trade in services is being redefined.
  • 4 Nov 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Pacific Islands
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: Supply chains, sanctions, and Telstra Pacific

    Greg Earl
    From ports to productivity, the pandemic has only exposed longstanding economic resilience issues in Australia.
  • 21 Oct 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • Trade
    • Australia
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: Los Angeles port pips China as Christmas grinch

    Greg Earl
    Amid an emerging global trade supply chain crisis, Australian economic policy advisers are more reserved about risks.
  • 7 Oct 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • Japan

    Economic diplomacy: Japan’s new PM joins the (supply) chain gang

    Greg Earl
    New research shows Australia may be an export diversification role model.
  • 12 Aug 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Australia
    • China
    • Climate change

    Economic diplomacy: Burning down the house

    Greg Earl
    Climate change is the new frontier for economic thinking in international relations.
  • 29 Jul 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Going for gold in 20 years and counting

    Greg Earl
    Brisbane will host the Olympics in 2032 but the starter’s gun has already sounded in the cost versus benefits contest.
  • 3 Jun 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: Under the doona, Australian investors dump China

    Greg Earl
    Australian investors are pulling out of China just as the country has become the largest recipient of FDI.
  • 17 May 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United Kingdom
    • Hong Kong

    London and Hong Kong: Financial centres in parallel peril

    Daniel Woker
    Once mighty, two beacons of the modern global economy are shrouded by political clouds.
  • 6 May 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • United States
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • China
    • Technology
    • International law

    Economic diplomacy: Patent politics and trade deal twists

    Greg Earl
    President Biden moves to suspend vaccine patents, RCEP ramps up, IA-CEPA gets a lesson and US dollar reserves tank.
  • 12 Apr 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • International Economy
    • Australia's Economy
    • IMF
    • Coronavirus

    Covid recovery, in Australia and the world

    John Edwards
    Drawing from his new Lowy Institute Paper, John Edwards looks at the fallout of the pandemic and where things are going.
  • 25 Mar 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Australia in the World
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: Deploying soft power and the future of trade

    Greg Earl
    Not-so-negative globalism, the not-so-predictable future of supply chains, and maybe not much change on China.
  • 11 Mar 2021
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • Myanmar
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: The business of coups and China’s Quad response

    Greg Earl
    Companies are finding themselves torn between conscience and keeping the lights on when it comes to Myanmar.
  • 25 Feb 2021
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Australia

    Why Aussie exporters won’t be toasting China or the US

    Greg Earl
    Wine exporters suffer a sour drop. Could a clever sales pitch deliver a new special vintage?
  • 22 Feb 2021
    • Global Economy
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • Trade and Investment in the Asia Pacific

    Expanding the CPTPP: A form guide to prospective members

    Jeffrey Wilson , Hayley Channer
    South Korea? Britain? China? Which country would you bet on to be the next big winner?
  • 11 Feb 2021
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • IMF
    • Australia

    Covid’s long reach upsets the economic pecking order

    Greg Earl
    China’s economy could overtake the US faster than expected but there are also implications for Australia closer to home.
  • 8 Feb 2021
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies

    What APEC has to offer in 2021

    Dick Grant
    No panacea, certainly, but a newly engaged United States might see APEC as just the right forum to work with the region.
  • 8 Dec 2020
    • Global Economy
    • Coronavirus
    • Sex and Gender

    Women, peace and security are not only wartime issues

    Rose Khattar
    The cost of domestic violence has only grown during Covid lockdowns – in rich and poor nations alike.
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