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Poverty and food insecurity could grow dramatically as COVID-19 spreads

David Laborde, Will Martin, and Rob Vos | International Food Policy Research Institute | 04/16/2020

Cases of COVID-19 worldwide have grown exponentially since our previous analyses of the pandemic’s impacts on global staple food markets and poverty and hunger. On March 10, the number infections had just passed…

The Global Drug Supply Chain

Christopher Holt | American Action Forum | 04/10/2020

At the start of 2020, reducing the prices American patients pay for prescriptio...

Surface-Level Public Policy Prescriptions Exacerbate the Pandemic

Veronique de Rugy | Mercatus Center | 04/09/2020

A pandemic is not the time for imprudent public...

Trade and the COVID-19 crisis in developing countries

Alvaro Espitia, Nadia Rocha, and Michele Ruta | VoxEU | 04/09/2020

While COVID-19 is most virulent today in ...

A Quick and Dirty Lesson about the Trade Deficit

Daniel J. Ikenson | CATO Institute | 04/04/2020

The trade balance is calculated as the difference between the val...

How to Make America’s Next Trade Policy

Clark Packard, Scott Lincicome, Dr. Kimberly Clausing, and Dr. Mary Lovely | The Bulwark | 03/02/2020

For nearly 80 yea...

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