Emerging markets are a new and important economic reality American businesses must take advantage of. According to Alexai Bayer’s recent article, Emerging markets: Moving from Threat to Opportunity,  investing in these rapidly growing markets, home to 95% of the world’s consumers, is key to creating economic growth and jobs here at home. “Emerging markets are [...]

A recent report released by the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization reports substantial progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving world poverty. In addition to progress in the MDGs, the report demonstrates that economic engagement with developing countries is successful in lifting millions out of poverty and making the world [...]

Yesterday, the Obama Administration released the new U.S Counterterrorism (CT) Strategy, in which it stated that terrorism was still the most significant threat facing the U.S. The strategy emphasized that combating terrorism throughout the world will require the use of all the capabilities and resources of the U.S. government, including our non-military tools of development [...]

Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) not only foster economic growth abroad, but also strengthen the American economy at home. That was the message delivered earlier this week when U.S. Department of Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Lael Brainard testified before the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade. In her testimony [...]

Last week, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, President Obama’s nominee to become the next ambassador to Afghanistan, focused on the importance of development and diplomacy to our national security in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In his opening statement, Ambassador Crocker said, “As you know, our core goal in Afghanistan, and Pakistan, is [...]