Anders Åslund
Anders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington. He is the author of Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It and, most recently, Europe's Growth Challenge (with Simeon Djankov).
Anders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington. He is the author of Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It and, most recently, Europe's Growth Challenge (with Simeon Djankov).
Through a process of brazen nepotism, Russian President Vladimir Putin has nationalized his country's elites, and consolidated his own power. As the better-known children of Russia’s previous generati… read more
With a broad mandate, sky-high approval ratings, and what will likely be a huge parliamentary majority, French President Emmanuel Macron has a golden opportunity to recast his country’s economic prosp… read more
Vladimir Putin's model of crony capitalism seems to be a deliberate effort to emulate the success of Russia’s old feudal system – a system that, after all, lasted for centuries. But in today’s world, … read more
The policies that European governments have pursued since the 2008 financial crisis have crowded out sorely needed structural reforms. But if European countries are going to keep their populists at ba… read more
The fear of economic destabilization that has permeated Russia since its 2014 invasion of Ukraine, which was met with crippling Western sanctions, has all but evaporated. For many Russians, the mix of… read more
The long-term sustainability of Russia’s economy is an open question: cronyism is rife, and Russia’s heavy dependence on oil revenues means that it will suffer whenever oil prices fall. But if the Sov… read more
Ukraine’s immediate economic crisis has been resolved, but its economy remains fragile and needs international support from bodies such as the IMF, which approved a new disbursement for the country la… read more
In July, the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office released a major report on how the Fund handled the euro crisis after 2010. The report is critical of Fund behavior; but, as with previous IMF self-eva… read more
The Brexit vote has underscored the dangers not only of referenda and plebiscites, but also of European complacency. If the EU is to survive, it must act quickly and decisively to regain leadership, s… read more
As war fever returns in Ukraine, the question of why Russian President Vladimir Putin went from would-be modernizer to aggressive autocrat is being revived. Whatever the reason – fear for his safety, … read more
Slumping growth, if not outright contraction, in most of the world’s major emerging economies has been rightly attributed to China’s slowdown and plummeting commodity prices. But weak external conditi… read more
