Kemal Derviş, former Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey and former Administrator for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), is Vice President of the Brookings Institution.
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Kemal Derviş
Commentaries by Kemal Derviş
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Taksim and the Left
ISTANBUL – The small park in Taksim Square in the sprawling metropolis of Istanbul is one of the few green spaces left in the city center. O…
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Balancing the Technocrats
ISTANBUL – A simplistic (actually, naive) view of markets is that they exist almost in a “state of nature,” and that the best of all worlds …
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Economic Policy’s Narrative Imperative
WASHINGTON, DC – The best advice I received when taking up policymaking responsibilities in Turkey more than a decade ago was to take “a lot…
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The Great Disconnect
PARIS – Since the second half of 2012, financial markets have recovered strongly worldwide. Indeed, in the United States, the Dow Jones indu…
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David Cameron’s European Spaghetti Bowl
WASHINGTON, DC – British Prime Minister David Cameron’s “Europe” speech, delivered on January 23, was powerful, polished, contained a bold v…
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The Centrists Cannot Hold
WASHINGTON – In most advanced democracies, a large center-right party competes with a large center-left party. Of course, the extent to whic…
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Should Central Banks Target Employment?
WASHINGTON, DC – On December 12, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that the Fed will keep interest rates at close to zero u…
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The Second Coming of Barack Obama
WASHINGTON, DC – The race was tough, but US President Barack Obama has won re-election. The question now, for the United States and the worl…
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Back to the Brink for the Eurozone?
ISTANBUL – When European Central Bank President Mario Draghi announced in late July that the ECB would “do whatever it takes” to prevent so-…
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Europe’s Vital French Connection
PARIS – In the debates raging over the future of the European Union and the eurozone, Germany always takes center stage. It has the largest …
Taksim and the Left
Edward Ponderer: Mr. Dervis analysis seems to be right on target. It appears to be the Turkish translation of "Globalization and its Discontents" -- so prominent on the American, European, and Arab stages of rece…
Taksim and the Left
Ayse Tezcan: currently, the left in turkey seems in total disarray. they lack leadership and as in 1970s they are completely fragmented. i sense that they desperately need a leader, who has learned the lesson from…