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Jeffrey Frankel
The Flawed Origins of Expansionary Austerity
CAMBRIDGE – Several of my Harvard University colleagues have recently been casualties in the crossfire between fiscal “austerians” and fisca…
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Kanayo F. Nwanze
Harnessing the Remittance Boom
ROME – For more than a decade, Asia’s economies have been on the move – and so have its people. The scale of migration from rural to urban a…
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Michael Spence
Learning About Growth from Austerity
MILAN – In a recent set of studies, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff used a vast array of historical data to show that the accumulation of…
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Barry Eichengreen
Open-Access Economics
CANBERRA – The brouhaha over Carmen Reinhart’s and Kenneth Rogoff’s article “Growth in a Time of Debt” may be the most conspicuous and incen…
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Erik Solheim
A New Deal for Fragile States
PARIS – Today, roughly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states. Despite vast sums of money spent…
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Ana Palacio
The Importance of Doing Business
MADRID – This month, an independent review panel is expected to release its findings regarding the World Bank’s Doing Business report. Specu…
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Richard Cooper, Richard Dobbs
China’s E-Tail Revolution
SHANGHAI – When you think about centers of technological innovation, Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Seoul are probably the first places that c…
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Kemal Derviş
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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Dani Rodrik
What Use Are Economists?
CAMBRIDGE – When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economis…
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Paul De Grauwe
Debt Without Drowning
LONDON – Since the 1970’s, economists have warned that a monetary union could not be sustained without a fiscal union. But the eurozone’s le…
