Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers July 27 to August 2.

My new discussion paper with Greg Makoff on economic and demographic trends in Puerto Rico.

The U.S. government responds to scores of disasters each year in coordination with foreign, state, and local partners, but more frequent and severe storms, fires, and floods are straining resources.

Yesterday (U.S. time), editor Maria Ressa, one of the most prominent journalists in the Philippines, and indeed in the world—she was selected as one of Time’s people of the year in 2018 and featured …

The long-standing surplus in the U.S. investment income account, often cited as evidence of  “exorbitant privilege,” is receding. It already goes away without the income from profit-shifting by U.S. …