In this Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I pushed back on an op-ed critical of Europe’s new financial transaction tax.

In this Brookings op-ed, I noted four ways in which foreign aid could do more harm than good, and three ways to make it more effective.

This report of a study I carried out with James W. Fox was the first assessment of foreign aid to Myanmar’s transition government.

Here is the audio file and transcript of the Brookings forum where Jim Fox and I presented our “Too Much Too Soon?” study.

In a Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I proposed choosing a Chinese person as the next president of the Asian Development Bank.

This is the transcript of a Brookings panel where I was joined by Priscilla Clapp, Anoop Singh, and Francis Zwenig.

In this Brookings panel discussion with Vanda Felbab Brown and Bill Wise, I focused on lessons from Indonesia for Myanmar.

In this Brookings op-ed, on the eve of Obama’s first visit to Myanmar, I focused on the implications for US relations with China.

In this Brookings op-ed, I highlighted the US policy debate between proponents of sanctions and proponents of engagement.

In this Brookings op-ed, I summarized an academic paper in which I explained why it would be hard to maintain a high economic growth rate.

This Brookings Working Paper is the source from which I drew material for a couple of op-eds and blog posts.

This piece for East Asia Forum is a short version of the paper I co-authored with Khin Maung Nyo for a conference in Kunming, China.

In this Brookings op-ed, I contrasted Myanmar’s “spring” with the recent ones in the Middle East, and advocated a cautious U.S. policy.

In this Brookings blog post, I stressed the benefits of not putting forward another American to be next president of the World Bank.

In the Brookings op-ed, I summarized the arguments from a long paper for moving the World Bank headquarters out of Washington DC.

In this Brookings op-ed, I focused on the how the Global Financial Crisis was calling into question “risk-free” US and European bonds.

In this Brookings blog post, I explained why the USA should care about Myanmar’s new quasi-democratic government and argued for engagement.

In this Brookings blog post, I argued that forcing write-downs of bonds of weak EU countries held by private investors would be a mistake.

In a report for Brookings, I contrasted pressure in the US to increase sanctions on Myanmar with Asian policies to increase engagement.

In this volume, edited by me and published by Brookings, ten Asian authors offer perspectives on Myanmar’s future under a new constitution.