The Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) is an independent U.S. government agency established in 1934 to create jobs through exports.
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Archive: Reports
U.S. Leadership in the Global Economy
The twenty-first century requires new paths that encourage exchanges of goods, capital, and people that enhance the social and environmental common good and that discourage or stop those exchanges that undermine healthy communities, a clean environment, and dignified work.
Read moreCapital Flows and Exchange Rate Policy
As neoliberal policies foster greater privatization of the international financial system, countries must rely almost entirely on private financial flows to finance trade, to settle international accounts, even to meet domestic credit needs.
Read moreUnited States and Africa: Starting Points for a New Policy Framework
In practice, however, Washingtons legacies of neglect and of inappropriate policies toward Africa have remained largely in place with the same overall guidelines
Read moreGlobal Environmental Protection in the 21st Century
In the past three decades, protecting the global environment has emerged as one of the major challenges in international relations.
Read moreRepairing the Global Financial Architecture: Painting over Cracks vs. Strengthening the Foundations
An alternative package of architectural reforms: Bretton Woods Light
Read moreContainment Lite: U.S. Policy Toward Russia and Its Neighbors
Instead of consulting with Russia over key foreign policy issues such as the Iraq bombings and allied policy toward former Yugoslavia, Washington has attempted to steer Moscow into a diplomatic backwater where it can exert little global influence.
Read morePopulation and Environment
Sound population policies can brighten environmental prospects while improving life for women and children, enhancing economic development, and contributing to a more secure world.
Read moreU.S.-North Korea Relations
The Pentagon has inflated the North Korean threat in order to rationalize its desire for a missile defense system, to justify a capacity to fight two wars simultaneously, and to explain the need to maintain 37,000 troops in South Korea.
Read moreTurkey: Arms and Human Rights
Considered a strategic NATO ally, Turkey has benefited from a U.S. policy that is long on military assistance and short on constructive criticism.
Read moreOPIC, Ex-Im & Climate Change: Business as Usual?
An Analysis of U.S. Government Support for Fossil Fueled Development Abroad, 1992-98
Read moreThe Global Sustainable Development Resolution
For the past decade, through both Republican and Democratic administrations, the U.S. government has promoted a model of free-market global capitalism that it claimed would benefit the great majority of people both at home and abroad. This model has failed.
Read moreContinuing Storm: The U.S. Role in the Middle East
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the triumph in the Gulf War, the United States standsat least for a timeas the region’s dominant outside power.
Read moreWomen and the U.S. Military in East Asia
Joint Vision 2020, a Pentagon planning document, concluded that Asia will replace Europe as the key focus of U.S. military strategy in the early 21st century and pointed to China as a potential adversary.
Read moreHuman Rights and U.S. Policy
Human rights are those claims and protections to which all people are entitled as human beings.
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