WASHINGTON — Efforts to mitigate climate change are prompting countries across the world to embrace dramatically different policies toward industry and trade, bringing governments into conflict.These new clashes over climate […]
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Back to news homeGlobal Fallout From Rate Moves Won’t Stop the Fed
The Federal Reserve, like many central banks, sets policy with an eye on the domestic economy. Its battle to control prices is causing pain abroad. Read More
Climate Change Could Worsen Supply Chain Turmoil
Chinese factories were shuttered again in late August, a frequent occurrence in a country that has imposed intermittent lockdowns to fight the coronavirus. But this time, the culprit was not […]
Trade Barriers From the Ukraine War Are Sending Food Prices Higher
In a speech last week, Janet L. Yellen, the Treasury secretary, said the pandemic and the war had revealed that American supply chains, while efficient, were neither secure nor resilient. […]
America Shouldn’t Compete Against China With One Arm Tied Behind Its Back
The Senate recently passed a bill intended to bolster America’s technological and industrial capacity as we compete against China. The bill, called the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, began as […]
Biden and China: Administration Rethinks Relations
WASHINGTON — Biden administration officials have tried to project a tough line on China in their first weeks in office, depicting the authoritarian government as an economic and security challenge […]
W.T.O. Set to Gain New Chief, but Deep Issues Remain
WASHINGTON — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian economist and former finance minister, is poised to become the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization, when the members […]
One Vaccine Side Effect: Global Economic Inequality
LONDON — The end of the pandemic is finally in view. So is rescue from the most traumatic global economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. As Covid vaccines enter the […]