The rapid rise of China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) should be a wakeup call for the United States, and requires a well thought out response. The AIIB and other Chinese development agencies represent a new form of strategic competition that can help to drive progress at the multilateral level. Its emergence was spurred forward by growing …
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Lessons from the late Bill Martel. I was saddened when Dr. William Martel died earlier this year. He was taken from us at too young an age. He was a professor at Tufts with a strong interest in public service. Bill and I both served on Gov. Mitt Romney’s foreign policy team in 2012. He …
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Today, Canada announced that it will set aside budgetary resources to establish its own development finance institution (DFI). With the creation of a Canadian DFI, Canada expands its ability to invest, catalyze, and facilitate private sector driven growth in the developing world. This move will contribute to Canada’s economic future— growth in key Canadian industries …
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Why is Haiti poor? Haitians proclaimed independence in 1803, more than a century before many Francophone West African nations and its neighbors in the Caribbean. Today, Cote d’Ivoire which suffered from civil conflict as recently as 2011, has a GDP per capita of $1,529, and Jamaica, another Caribbean country that has suffered from political violence, …
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Spain is a success story for democracy and development, and a net contributor to the global liberal order over the last four decades. One reason for this success has been Spain's ability to maintain national unity for over five hundred years despite ethnic and linguistic diversity. A push for Catalan independence, however, calls that unity …
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