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Economics & Business

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Microfinance and the Feminization of Debt in Cambodia

Microfinance has transformed from a tool of female empowerment into one of gendered financial vulnerability in Cambodia. Here is how it can be fixed.


Policy Recommendation by Aisha Rana
​11/19/2025
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Implications of Egypt and Algeria's Economic Diversification for their Green Transition
Policy Recommendation by Zaara Mohammed & Waab Abdalla
7/23/2025
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US Sovereign Wealth Fund and Debt-Associated Risk
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Policy Analysis by Henry Dirckx
4/21/2025

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​​Navigating Trade Amidst US Protectionist Policies: Suggestions for Small-Open States 

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The world’s largest consumer market, the United States, is imposing tariffs and restrictions on countries employing unfair trade and industry practices. Small-open states can no longer adopt the East Asian development model without thinking twice about the implications for their trade and industrial strategies.
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Policy Recommendation by Max Cheung
​1/9/2025

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The Schengen Area’s Weight on Greece’s Economic Recovery
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The Greek government has criticized the Schengen Area for siphoning away skilled Greek citizens, thus losing one of the nation’s most valuable resources–human capital. 

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Policy Analysis by Parker Lee & Jiahao Chao
​10/11/24

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Implications of Marketization on Regime Stability in North Korea
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​The collapse of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea’s state-run economy in the 1990s unleashed a wave of bottom-up marketization that has been threatening the stability of the Kim regime. 


Commentary​ by Tin Pak
1/28/2024

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Closing the Loophole for Sending Emissions Abroad​

As the threat of climate change grows, preventing the offshoring of emissions becomes ever more critical.​

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Policy Recommendation by Mia Callahan
​4/29/2023

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Supply Chains and Friend-shoring

Current trends in globalization offer new benefits for the US,
its allies, and developing nations alike.


​Policy Recommendation by Peter Poliakov
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4/29/2023

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Russia's Arctic Dreams Remain on Ice

​Russia's plan to develop the Northern Sea Route shipping lane involves more than just building new ports.


Commentary​ by Rino Hamanishi
​1/28/2023

Mission Statement

Analyzing developing economies and international commerce

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RESEARCH FOCUS: EMERGING MARKETS AND ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION
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A majority of the world's population lives in an emerging market and represents nearly half the world's GDP. The future of innovation and economic growth holds equal weight on the shoulders of these countries. Additionally, international trade has become an ever-increasing share in the global economy, and disruptions to it are a mounting concern, threatening the path for lower income countries to become prosperous. In an increasingly globalized world, the distinction between our economic interests and the rest of the world's become one and the same. It is imperative that global leaders and policy makers pursue sound economic policy that takes into account emerging markets and economic globalization in order to make the world a safer, prosperous, and developed one. ​​

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