Brigitte Granville
Brigitte Granville is Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary College, University of London.
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2011-03-07
| In order to anchor inflation expectations effectively, inflation targets must be realistic. But that is far from the case these days for the Bank of England, and even for the European Central Bank, while US Federal Reserve officials are increasingly worried that inflation expectations could become unmoored.... read |
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2006-11-20
| Ségolène Royal has turned the tables on the Socialist Party to become its standard bearer in next year’s election. But her triumph is only part of an intense political debate of the sort France has not seen for decades. With parliamentary and presidential elections next year, the stakes are as high as at any previous turning point in modern French history. ... read |
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2006-05-29
| France’s chronic malaise is marked by periodic explosions of protest. The two most recent episodes – the rioting and arson in French cities last autumn and the successful student campaign earlier this year against a new law governing young labor-market entrants – seem to have little in common. But their unifying thread is youth, unemployment, and uncertainty about the future, as well as the suffocating state paternalism that underlies the wider malaise itself. ... read |
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2005-06-30
| In eternal Russia, nothing changes when it comes to monetary management. Year after year, the Russian Central Bank (RCB) blames the weather, the poor harvest, or other non-monetary factors for its feeble performance in lowering the inflation rate. ... read |
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2005-04-01
| West Africa’s jewel is fracturing. The Ivory Coast miracle is now the Ivory Coast hell, where natives and non-natives live in fear. ... read |
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2004-10-31
| A majority of the French say that they want Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy to play an important role in shaping the country's future. No Frenchman wants that more than the ambitious "Sarko" himself. So Sarkozy will step down as finance minister next month to take the reigns of the ruling conservative party (UMP), washing his hands of Chirac's muddled government and hoping to use the party machine to bulldoze his way into the Elysée Palace in two years. ... read |
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2003-10-14
| "The dollar is our currency and your problem." So America's Treasury Secretary quipped before President Nixon pulled the plug on the Bretton Woods system three decades ago. What John Connolly's bluntness reflected was America's ability--and willingness--to export its economic problems by driving down the dollar's value while scapegoating countries opposed to that strategy. President George W. Bush seems hell-bent on repeating Nixon's misbegotten policy. ... read |
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2003-03-26
| The UN and NATO are widely perceived as damaged, if not broken, by their failure to agree on what to do about Iraq. Will these cracks in the international political system now wound the world's economic architecture, and with it globalization, as well? ... read |
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2003-01-29
| Migration is the side of globalization that, to borrow Oscar Wilde's phrase, dare not speak its name. Advocates of globalization dance around the topic because they fear it will incite nativist backlash. Respectable opponents of globalization avoid it in fear that they will be called racists or insensitive to the plight of the world's poorest. ... read |
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Public Versus Private France
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President Jacques Chirac's re-election incited a sigh of relief across France that is echoing around the world. But the scare Jean-Marie Le Pen threw into French politics will be for nought if the political class in Britain slips back into its old hauteur and complacency. ... read
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2006-05-29
| France’s chronic malaise is marked by periodic explosions of protest. The two most recent episodes – the rioting and arson in French cities last autumn and the successful student campaign earlier this year against a new law governing young labor-market entrants – seem to have little in common. But their unifying thread is youth, unemployment, and uncertainty about the future, as well as the suffocating state paternalism that underlies the wider malaise itself. ... read |
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2005-06-30
| In eternal Russia, nothing changes when it comes to monetary management. Year after year, the Russian Central Bank (RCB) blames the weather, the poor harvest, or other non-monetary factors for its feeble performance in lowering the inflation rate. ... read |
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2005-04-01
| West Africa’s jewel is fracturing. The Ivory Coast miracle is now the Ivory Coast hell, where natives and non-natives live in fear. ... read |
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2006-11-20
| Ségolène Royal has turned the tables on the Socialist Party to become its standard bearer in next year’s election. But her triumph is only part of an intense political debate of the sort France has not seen for decades. With parliamentary and presidential elections next year, the stakes are as high as at any previous turning point in modern French history. ... read |
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2003-01-29
| Migration is the side of globalization that, to borrow Oscar Wilde's phrase, dare not speak its name. Advocates of globalization dance around the topic because they fear it will incite nativist backlash. Respectable opponents of globalization avoid it in fear that they will be called racists or insensitive to the plight of the world's poorest. ... read |
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2002-05-06
| President Jacques Chirac's re-election incited a sigh of relief across France that is echoing around the world. But the scare Jean-Marie Le Pen threw into French politics will be for nought if the political class in Britain slips back into its old hauteur and complacency. ... read |
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2004-10-31
| A majority of the French say that they want Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy to play an important role in shaping the country's future. No Frenchman wants that more than the ambitious "Sarko" himself. So Sarkozy will step down as finance minister next month to take the reigns of the ruling conservative party (UMP), washing his hands of Chirac's muddled government and hoping to use the party machine to bulldoze his way into the Elysée Palace in two years. ... read |
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2003-03-26
| The UN and NATO are widely perceived as damaged, if not broken, by their failure to agree on what to do about Iraq. Will these cracks in the international political system now wound the world's economic architecture, and with it globalization, as well? ... read |
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2003-10-14
| "The dollar is our currency and your problem." So America's Treasury Secretary quipped before President Nixon pulled the plug on the Bretton Woods system three decades ago. What John Connolly's bluntness reflected was America's ability--and willingness--to export its economic problems by driving down the dollar's value while scapegoating countries opposed to that strategy. President George W. Bush seems hell-bent on repeating Nixon's misbegotten policy. ... read |
