Publications

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Book Chapters

Correlated Trade and Geopolitics Driving a Fractured World Order

Published in Ing, Lili Yan and Rodrik, Dani (eds) The New Global Economic Order, 2025

This article argues that in a fracturing world order, paradoxically, geopolitics and trade align. It is, thus, a fallacy that geopolitics and economics provide a balance through working in opposition in a fragmenting global economy.

Recommended citation: Quah, Danny. 2025. "Correlated Trade and Geopolitics Driving a Fractured World Order." Ch. 5 in Ing, Lili Yan and Rodrik, Dani (eds.) The New Global Economic Order.
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Export-Led Growth: The Trade-Technology Relation in Small and Poor Economies

Published in Besley, Timothy J. and Velasco, Andres (eds.) The London Consensus, 2025

This paper analyses the impact of trade and technology on aggregate economic performance where poor nations are cheap. The most successful economies are extraordinarily rich without having to be unusually complex.

Recommended citation: Quah, Danny. 2025. "Export-Led Growth: The Trade-Technology Relation in Small and Poor Economies", in Besley, Timothy J. and Velasco, Andres (eds.) The London Consensus.
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Commentaries

Why America Should Drop Its Obsession With Being No. 1

Published in Foreign Policy, 2024

This essay argues that the United States will do well for the world and even better for itself if it becomes better assured and more confident of its place in the international system.

Recommended citation: Quah, Danny. 2024. "Why America Should Drop Its Obsession With Being No. 1" Foreign Policy (Fall) pp. 41-43.
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