CSIS, in partnership with leading Australian think tank, the Lowy Institute for International Policy, has released the third session in the new video series “Views Across the Pacific” which is a discussion between CSIS Simon Chair in Political Economy, Matthew Goodman and Lowy Institute Director of the G20 Studies Centre Mike Callaghan on the global economy and the future of the G-20.
Author Archive for Matthew P. Goodman
Matthew P. Goodman holds the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at CSIS, with particular emphasis on Northeast Asia.
The Windy Road to FTAAP
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By Matt Goodman All roads may no longer lead to Rome, but someday they may lead to the FTAAP (Free Trade Area Asia Pacific). In addition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the other main route to the APEC vision of…
Japan’s Workforce: Women Underutilized
by Matthew P. Goodman • • 4 Comments
By Matt Goodman Japan’s demographic trends are grim, but the Japanese make it harder on themselves by not better using the people they have. Women in particular are famously underutilized. Some 60 percent of women quit the workforce after giving…
Why Japan Should Join the TPP
by Matthew P. Goodman • • 5 Comments
By Matt Goodman & Mike Green Editor’s Note: This piece is cross-posted from the CNN Global Public Square Blog where it first appeared here. Since the first merchant ship of the new American republic set sail from New York for…
2013 Asia-Pacific Forecast: Global Economics
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By Matt Goodman Editor’s Note: The CSIS Asia Team is writing a series of analyses that forecasts key issues and challenges in the Asia-Pacific. In this post, Matt Goodman discusses how the world’s major economies face political hurdles to growth…
Growth and the G-2
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By Matt Goodman & David Parker Beijing and Washington may disavow the term, but “G-2” is an increasingly apt description of the world’s most important economic relationship. The United States and China are now the world’s two largest economies and…
Stewards for the Future U.S.-China Economic Relationship
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By Matt Goodman The changing of the guard in Washington and Beijing over the next few months means new managers of the bilateral economic relationship. For the past four years, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Chinese Vice Premier Wang…
APEC: Getting Stuff Done
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By Matt Goodman Speaking to a hall full of CEOs at last year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Honolulu, President Barack Obama got his biggest applause line when he announced that he had just signed a law approving the…
Noda Should Keep His Eye on the Prize
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By Matt Goodman The Japanese have a word, ganbaru, that loosely translates as “show resolve.” It is the quintessentially Japanese quality that the world has seen so movingly on display since the triple disasters of March 11, 2011. As measured…