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Learn why China lends billions of dollars abroad each year through its Belt and Road Initiative and the implications of that free resource for recipient countries.

What Is Trade Policy?

In this free resource on trade policy, explore how countries leverage their economic power to advance their foreign policy interests.

How Did Mass Production and Mass Consumption Take Off After World War II?

Discover how consumer goods have become cheap and ubiquitous in the global era.

Economics: Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa sustained rapid economic growth and investment in the early 2000s, a period dubbed by some experts as Africa Rising.

It Takes a Village to Make Your Medicine

Follow the global supply chain across borders and into your pill bottle.

Understanding the Last Fifty Years of Global Development

Has life gotten better for people around the world? Learn how improvements in health, education, and income are measured and explore three countries' opportunities and challenges with development.

Technology and Development

As Great Britain’s Industrial Revolution and India’s Green Revolution have shown, technological innovation can drive extraordinary development. Explore how digital advancements are further driving progress today.