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Will Trade Tensions Derail the Global Economic Expansion?

From

13
9:30 am June 2019

To

13
11:00 am June 2019

The global economy slowed in recent quarters and this coincided with an aggravation of trade tensions. Our Senior Fellow, Mr. Uri Dadush, will be presenting how the trade dispute between the United States, China, and Mexico may well escalate further in the near future. What are the implications? Will economic growth be sustained? How will Africa and Morocco, in particular, be affected?

Speakers
Uri Dadush
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Uri Dadush is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, where he served as Senior Fellow from its founding in 2014 until 2022. He is Research Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland and a non-resident scholar at Bruegel. He is based in Washington, DC, and is Principal of Economic Policy International, LLC, providing consulting services to the World Bank and to other international organizations as well as corporations. Previously, he served as Director of the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and, at the World Bank, was Director of the International Trade, Economic Policy, and Development Prospects Departments. In the private sector before that he was President of the Economist Int ...