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This paper provides a comprehensive survey and assessment of the literature on the effects of economic sanctions on living standards in target countries.

In this edition of Sanctions Watch, covering April 2023: US Rep. Greg Casar says US asset freeze helped create Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis; amid soaring food prices, the US embargo is blocking agricultural exports to Cuba; the World Bank points to sanctions as the cause of sluggish growth in Iran; nuclear envoys call for greater enforcement of UN resolution barring North Koreans from working overseas; the US suggests a total ban of exports to Russia; doctors in Syria say sanctions hinder a

In this edition of Sanctions Watch, covering March 2023: the World Food Programme fears famine is looming in Afghanistan; senators introduce a bill to end trade embargo on Cuba; Yellen admits sanctions on Iran cause economic suffering and don’t work; Nort

February 2023: a Federal Judge rules that 9/11 victims are not entitled to Afghanistan’s frozen assets; calls grow to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terror list; sanctions fuel record depreciation and food price

At least 124 people have died as winter temperatures set in across Afghanistan, compounding what was already a dire humanitarian crisis.

What the IMF Gets Wrong about Venezuela

In this Sanctions Watch, covering December 2022: Seized Afghan assets languish in US-backed trust fund while Afghans prepare for a grueling winter…

In this edition of CEPR Sanctions Watch: the Afghan Fund meets, but relief for Afghanistan remains far as winter draws near.

CEPR Sanctions Watch aims to help generate more awareness around sanctions by providing regular updates on US economic sanctions policy and its harmful impacts on people around the world.

Though now a key part of US policy-making, and a defining feature of the global economic order, sanctions, and their human costs, as well as violations of treaties to which the United States is a signatory, receive relatively little attention.