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177. How the Rana Plaza factory collapse changed global supply chains
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New research examines how NGOs, consumers, and major retailers responded to the outrage following the 2013 tragedy in Bangladesh.
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176. The Cold War scandal over export controls
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The leakage of submarine technology to the Soviet Union in the 1980s has lessons for the limits to and coordination of allies’ export controls today.
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175. The dreaded WTO ruling on Trump’s national security tariffs
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The WTO ruled against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, dragging the organization into thorny national security issues.
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174. The incredible rise of Chinese fintech
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New super apps and other internet-enabled technologies have transformed China’s financial sector, with global implications, says Martin Chorzempa.
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173: Did Britain’s slave trade help drive its industrial revolution?
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New research reveals how Britain’s economy benefited from the brutal transatlantic slave trade and its slave holdings.
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172. Peru’s “China shock”: Surprising turns and the women left behind
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A flood of imports from China had an unexpected impact on the Peruvian clothing industry while discouraging Peru’s women workers.
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171. What makes a supply chain resilient
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New research examining India’s pandemic lockdowns sheds light on which supply chains stuck together, which broke apart, and why.
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170. National security, semiconductors, and the US move to cut off China
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The history behind the sudden US ban on certain exports to China, and how the policy affects the global semiconductor supply chain.
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169. Taiwan’s risky trade opening and how it paid off
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In the 1950s, Taiwan was the first poor economy to experiment with trade reform. How its success changed the course of history for others.
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168. Did Trump’s trade war make China more protectionist?
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Why it matters that Chinese public opinion toward trade and technology may have changed in response to US policy.