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The IFF China Report 2019

Insight and perspectives from the world’s leaders, premier policy-makers and financiers

The Belt and Road Initiative

Over the past five years, China has invested more than $70 billion in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries, of which there are now in excess of 100. Leading Chinese and international policy-makers explain how BRI efforts are progressing. This section includes the annual survey of central banks in jurisdictions participating in the BRI – all respondents to which agreed the initiative is an important measure in promoting globalisation. 

 

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In the footsteps of Marco Polo

Massimo D’Alema, former prime minister of Italy, notes that his countryman Marco Polo found hardship and conflict on his long route back from China to Europe, but that it was a price worth paying for co-operation and convergence

The futures game

China should open up its futures market to foreign participants, and its partners in the Belt and Road Initiative should escalate their involvement in futures markets to co-ordinate critical commodity supply and improve the stability and effectiveness of…

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