José Antonio Ocampo, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and former Finance Minister of Colombia, is Professor and Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.
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Jose Antonio Ocampo
Commentaries by Jose Antonio Ocampo
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The Federal Reserve and the Currency Wars
NEW YORK – The United States Federal Reserve’s recent decision to launch a third round of “quantitative easing” has revived accusations by B…
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What Should the World Bank Do?
NEW YORK – I have been honored by World Bank directors representing developing countries and Russia to be selected as one of two developing-…
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The G-20’s Helpful Silence on Capital Controls
NEW YORK – When French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the reins as host of this year’s G-20 summit, to be held in Cannes on November 3-4, he…
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Damming Capital
NEW YORK – Capital-account regulations have been at the center of global financial debates for two years. The reasons are clear: since the w…
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A Modest Proposal for the G-20
BEIJING – In March, at a meeting in Beijing organized by Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue and China’s Central University…
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The Case for Re-Regulating Capital Accounts
NEW YORK – Today’s debates over “currency wars” reveal two paradoxical features of the global economy. The first is that there is no mechani…
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Exchange Rate Disorder
NEW YORK – Two troubling features of the ongoing economic recovery are the depressed nature of world trade and the early revival of internat…
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Reserve Reform
NEW YORK – Both China and the United Nations Commission on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System have called for a new …
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What Should Bretton Woods II Look Like?
NEW YORK – For those of us who have long claimed that the world’s international financial architecture needed deep reform, the call for a “B…
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Self-Financing Development
NEW YORK – A remarkable feature of the international financial system in the last decade has been the rapid and vast accumulation of foreign…
The Federal Reserve and the Currency Wars
Allan Ng: Yes, the emerging market countries are surely right to complain that the US is devaluing its currency. Strange that they didn't see any need to complain that the Americans were maintaining its currenc…
The Federal Reserve and the Currency Wars
Ross Clem: A "broader agenda" will require a "broad crisis" to provide the incentive for action between nations. Such is the case today with the euro.