Johannes Jütting is Head of Poverty Reduction at the OECD Development Center in Paris.
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Johannes Jütting
Commentaries by Johannes Jütting
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The Middle Class Goes Global
PARIS – In the twentieth century, the American dream of a middle-class life inspired the world. Now, in the twenty-first, we are moving at h…
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Economic Development Before the Law
One of the most pervasive and apparently self-evident assumptions of development economics is that sustainable investment and growth require…
The Middle Class Goes Global
JSC Siow: There's an inherent contradiction here where you state the need for better jobs (presumably requiring a better qualified workforce) and yet in your subsequent statement claim that: "Education in the d…
The Middle Class Goes Global
Zsolt Hermann: What we see is a very fundamental reaction of our basic matter: desire. Imagine a very fine tasteful cake, but before we actually tasted it we do not truly crave for it. After we got a taste and th…