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21-Dec-2020 | Shang-Jin Wei
How to make climate pledges stick
The world needs to move beyond finger-pointing and work toward a uniform carbon tariff to increase the costs of emissions
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09-Nov-2020 | Shang-Jin Wei
Three steps to a Biden climate initiative
With more sensible US leadership and new policy tools, the world will have a fighting chance of survival
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17-Aug-2020 | Shang-Jin Wei
A better alternative to Trump's WeChat ban
By opting for a ban, the US has prioritised optics over sound policymaking, with costs to America that are all too predictable
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27-Mar-2020 | Shang-Jin Wei
Beating COVID-19 and the economic pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the world with disaster. But the crisis also offers govts a rare chance to undertake policy changes that can boost the global economy's long-term growth potential.
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30-Aug-2019 | Shang-Jin Wei
Could a US recession end the trade war?
In recent downturns, the US has been more willing than normal to cooperate with China in order to try to spur recovery
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14-May-2019 | Shang-Jin Wei
The case for climate tariffs
A future US government could perhaps use tariffs, or the threat of them, to push other countries to reduce their emissions more aggressively
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18-Apr-2019 | Nikhil Patel & Shang-Jin-Wei
Getting exchange rates right
Calculating them more accurately could reduce the risk of misguided economic policies
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15-Apr-2019 | Shang-Jin Wei
Making China's tax cuts fiscally sustainable
China should replace administrative restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions and other pollution with new taxes
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25-Dec-2018 | Shang-Jin Wei
A reciprocal solution to US-China trade row
If global trade is to be truly fair, both China as well as the advanced economies - in particular, the US - have to make changes
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10-Nov-2018 | Shang-Jin Wei
The reforms China really needs
A final reform that would go a long way toward fortifying China's economy would be a temporary reduction of the corporate-income and value-added tax rates
