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Download The Case Against Economic Sanctions fact sheet.

CEPR’s “The Case Against Economic Sanctions” fact sheet.

Economic sanctions have become a go-to US foreign policy tool. In recent decades, the number of sanctions imposed by the US has more than quadrupled. But this extreme reliance on a single tool has come with little debate on its merits, and even less honest assessment of the human costs.

Today, a growing body of evidence makes clear that broad, unilateral sanctions undermine the global rule of law and severely harm millions of innocent people.

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