Dollar and Sense is a podcast about all things trade. From local ports and markets to international trade and diplomacy, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow David Dollar and guests explain how our global trading system is built and its effect on our everyday lives.
Brookings senior fellow Fiona Hill, a leading expert on Russia and Vladimir Putin and former senior director for European and Russian affairs on the N...
The vast majority of global trade today moves by sea, so control of the world’s oceans has become critical for both commerce and security. In this epi...
Around the world, the middle class is expanding at a rate we have never seen before in history. Homi Kharas, a senior fellow in the Center for Sustain...
Afghanistan has received enormous amounts of foreign aid over the years, but despite the investment of funds and various efforts to build state capaci...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the greatest shock to the international order in decades, and unlike previous shocks, major powers like the United Stat...
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were supposed to showcase Japan’s resilience in the face of major setbacks and be a crowning event at the end of former Prime ...
From widespread protests in Cuba to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, recent unrest across Latin America has brought new attention...
When the leaders of G-7 countries met in Carbis Bay last month, they announced a new Build Back Better World (B3W) plan to support infrastructure proj...
Digital currencies like Bitcoin often make headlines for the massive swings in their value, but beyond the intrigue of skyrocketing and plummeting pri...
While the United States has made great strides in vaccinating its population, many low- and middle-income countries are far behind and lack the supply...