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Commentary
Memo to Incoming USAID Leadership in the Biden Administration
November 30, 2020 | Bonnie Glick A new memo from CSIS Senior Adviser Bonnie Glick to the USAID leadership of the incoming Biden administration outlines several operational requirements for addressing the Covid-19 pandemic, great power competition, and other global challenges in its first 100 days.

Report
Post-pandemic Infrastructure and Digital Connectivity in the Indo-Pacific
November 2, 2020 | Daniel F. Runde, Conor M. Savoy, Owen Murphy The Indo-Pacific region is experiencing significant challenges as a result of the pandemic. This CSIS brief highlights how U.S. leadership can collaborate with the necessary institutions and organizations to competitively assist with economic recovery and development efforts.

Report
Becoming a Chinese Client State: The Case of Serbia
September 24, 2020 | Heather A. Conley, Jonathan E. Hillman, Maesea McCalpin, Donatienne Ruy This CSIS report examines Chinese economic activities in Serbia to shed light on China’s political and economic objectives, its mechanisms for influence, and the implications of its activities, including a second wave of digital infrastructure projects.

Report
Recovery with Resilience: Diversifying Supply Chains to Reduce Risk in the Global Economy
September 10, 2020 | Daniel F. Runde, Sundar R. Ramanujam The shock to the global economy, triggered by the public health crisis of Covid-19, has raised questions about the resiliency of global supply chains. CSIS lays out how the Indo-Pacific region, with limited development assistance, can help diversify and de-risk the system.

Commentary
Taking the Higher Road: U.S. Global Infrastructure Strategy One Year Later
April 27, 2020 | Matthew P. Goodman, Daniel F. Runde, Jonathan E. Hillman, Sundar R. Ramanujam One year ago, CSIS made key recommendations that would give United States a more leading role in global infrastructure development. This new commentary looks at how those recommendations are not only still relevant—but more urgent—in light of Covid-19.

Commentary
China’s Growing Power for a Food Secure World
January 8, 2020

CSIS’s Amy Beaudreault analyzes China’s forward-thinking actions towards food security, which may result in China outpacing the United States as a global agricultural powerhouse.

Report
Competing to Win: A Coalition Approach to Countering the BRI
December 19, 2019 The U.S. government should take the lead to develop and implement a formal integrated multilateral infrastructure development mechanism that can effectively compete with the BRI to counter China’s geopolitical gains.

Report
The Asian Development Bank: A Strategic Asset for the United States
December 18, 2019 | Daniel F. Runde, Shannon McKeown The approval of Strategy 2030 in 2019 has given a renewed focus, direction, and purpose to the Asian Development Bank, identifying the most pressing issues to be addressed in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and the needs of its developing member countries.

Report
The New Missing Middle in Development Finance
November 13, 2019 | Daniel F. Runde, Erol Yayboke, Sundar R. Ramanujam The CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development releases a new policy brief that addresses the critical financing gap which the global micro, small, and medium enterprise landscape faces in the growth stage of innovation.

Report
Trends in Forced Migration
November 5, 2019 | Erol Yayboke CSIS releases this backgrounder to reflect on the challenges and implications of forced migration, explore trends in this global phenomenon, and identify innovative solutions to future crises.

Report
U.S.-India Maritime Security Cooperation
October 8, 2019 | Aman Thakker This joint CSIS – Delhi Policy Group White Paper assesses pathways and impediments to expanding maritime security and defense cooperation between the United States and India and concludes with specific policy recommendations for each nation.

Interactive
What's Happening with China's Belt and Road?
July 31, 2019 | Jonathan E. Hillman
In Reconnecting Asia Xi Jinping's signature foreign policy vision, the Belt and Road Initiative, is a long-term strategy to make China the center of the global economy. Can China deliver on its ambitious plans? CSIS Reconnecting Asia Director Jonathan Hillman explains what's happening with China's...

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