Bridging Trade Finance Gaps: State-Led Innovations to Bolster Exporting by Small and Medium-Sized Fi
This is co-authored with Jessica Lee, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and highlights our new report. Out of all the companies in the United States, only 4 percent are exporters. This statistic is surprising given the outsized role that exports played in helping the United States recover from the Great Recession. During the initial recovery period, nearly 40 percent of U.S. GDP growth came from exports. Today, almost 80 percent of global purchasing power resides ou