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Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
Hans-Werner Sinn

The Collateral Damage of Europe’s Rescue

MUNICH – The eurozone is now in its sixth year of crisis – and of efforts by the European Central Bank and the international community to en…
Robin Niblett

Transatlantic Trade-Offs

LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …
Paul R. Ehrlich

The Food Threat to Human Civilization

PALO ALTO – Humanity faces a growing complex of serious, highly interconnected environmental problems, including much-discussed challenges l…

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Ana Palacio Apr. 22, 2013

How to Boost Foreign Investment

MADRID – Economic globalization, together with a rebalancing of power between the world’s north and south, has made developing countries, an…
Martin N. Baily, Susan Lund Apr. 12, 2013

Financial Globalization in Reverse?

WASHINGTON, DC – For three decades, financial globalization had seemed inevitable. New information technologies made it possible to conduct …
Jomo Kwame Sundaram Apr. 10, 2013

Innovation in Development Finance

ROME – More than four decades ago, the world’s wealthiest countries pledged that at least 0.7% of their GDP would be devoted to official dev…
Joseph E. Stiglitz Apr. 5, 2013

The Promise of Abenomics

TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s program for his country’s economic recovery has led to a surge in domestic confidence. But to w…
Simon Johnson Feb. 25, 2013

The Political Importance of Elizabeth Warren

WASHINGTON, DC – Financial reform in the United States and worldwide hangs in the balance. The problems that brought us the terrible crisis …
Mark Roe Feb. 21, 2013

Are Stock Markets Really Becoming More Short Term?

CAMBRIDGE – In a recent commentary, I examined whether increasing pressure from more rapid stock trading is inducing corporate managers to o…
Jeffrey Frankel Feb. 11, 2013

The Battle of the Bond Benchmarks

TOKYO – Some prominent institutional bond investors are shifting their focus from traditional benchmark indices, which weight countries’ deb…
Howard Davies Dec. 27, 2012

Bankers with Borders

LONDON – When Mark Carney replaces Mervyn King as Governor of the Bank of England in July 2013, the world will be deprived of King’s witty p…
Raghuram Rajan Nov. 12, 2012

Is Finance Too Competitive?

NEW DELHI – Many economists are advocating for regulation that would make banking “boring” and uncompetitive once again. After a crisis, it …
Daniel Gros Nov. 5, 2012

Getting to Normal

BRUSSELS – A financial crisis erupts when a large volume of assets in the financial system suddenly appears to be risky and investors want t…

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