“It is unfortunate that the pressing need for broader debt relief for poor countries is being stymied by the apparent recalcitrance of China, which has become a major creditor,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics. The piece syndicated to Al Jazeera, The Washington Post and many other outlets.

"What I think has really helped is China has used that stimulus judiciously in tandem with effective virus control,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of Economics. “One lesson here is unless you control the virus, your economy is not going to have much of a recovery."

A conversation with Allen Carlson, director of Cornell’s China and Asia Pacific Studies program.

Tapping worldwide connections, the Einaudi Center matched dozens of students with paid summer internships and research in their fields.

"The demands by protesters to audit the king’s finances are unprecedented,” says Tamara Loos (SEAP), professor of history. “But so is the way the king utilizes what were formerly state funds."
 

Peace and Conflict Studies Faculty, Peter Katzenstein is mentioned as a highlight for winning the Skytte Prize in Political Science in Cornell's State of the University address.

Jane Mt. Pleasant is on a faculty committee that is exploring Cornell’s history as a land-grant institution and the nation’s dispossession of Indigenous peoples.

“You started to see this more assertive diplomatic stance as the U.S.-China trade war heated up, and with Beijing beginning to realize it needed to set the domestic stage for what was going to be a protracted struggle with the United States,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government.

The fact that imports to the U.S. are rising says a lot about how far the economy’s come since the start of the pandemic, says Eswar Prasad. “Economic recoveries are usually associated with increases in demand for goods and services produced both domestically and abroad.”