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Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Eduardo Levy Yeyati

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Eduardo Levy Yeyati, a former chief economist of the Central Bank of Argentina, is Dean of the School of Government at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Faculty Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Policy, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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  1. Latin America’s Triple Policy Challenge
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    Latin America’s Triple Policy Challenge

    Aug 30, 2022 Ilan Goldfajn & Eduardo Levy Yeyati argue that subpar growth, fiscal imbalances, and rising inequality must be addressed simultaneously.

  2. Argentina's Imaginary Miracle
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    Argentina's Imaginary Miracle

    Jan 21, 2022 Andrés Velasco & Eduardo Levy Yeyati think the data do not support bullish assessments of the Fernández administration’s economic record.

  3. Latin America’s Pandemic of Woe
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    Latin America’s Pandemic of Woe

    Jan 14, 2021 Mauricio Cárdenas, et al. fear that a protracted economic crisis could cause the region’s political climate to worsen in 2021.

  4. The COVID Reset Latin America Needs
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    The COVID Reset Latin America Needs

    Nov 9, 2020 Mauricio Cárdenas, et al. identify two structural weaknesses that the pandemic has highlighted – and that policymakers must overcome.

  5. Latin America’s Middle-Class Mirage
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    Latin America’s Middle-Class Mirage

    Sep 25, 2013 Eduardo Levy Yeyati on the illusion of emerging countries' growing middle classes.

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    The Global South Needs to Own Its AI Revolution

    Kate Kallot explains how these countries can advance a community-driven approach to the emerging technology.
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    Africa’s Year of Warlords and Meddlers

    Adekeye Adebajo foresees growing instability and more foreign interference on the continent in 2025.
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    Playing at Democracy

    Kaushik Basu explains how a well-known children's game illustrates the logic of today's emerging oligarchies.
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    The Revolt Against Regulation

    Daniel Gros explains why the new push for deregulation in the United States and the European Union may not help either.
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    Donald Trump’s Misrule of Law

    Richard K. Sherwin

    By insisting on its own supremacy, the executive branch of the US government under President Donald Trump is effectively seeking to alter America’s constitutional framework of checks and balances among co-equal branches of government. Trump has no authority to execute this change, but that will not be enough to stop him.

    observes that the president's claim of supremacy over the courts amounts to tossing out the US Constitution.
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    Trump’s Looming Deficit Disaster

    Desmond Lachman explains why the US president’s trade tariffs and planned tax cuts are at odds with basic economic realities.
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    Governing AI for the Public Interest

    Mariana Mazzucato & Tommaso Valletti

    While AI could deliver profound benefits for all of society, it is likely to do the opposite if governments remain passive bystanders. Policymakers must step in now to foster a decentralized innovation ecosystem that serves the public good, and they must wake up to all the ways that things can go wrong.

    explain why the UK government’s recently released AI “action plan” misses the mark.
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    Putting the Trump-Modi Bromance to the Test

    Brahma Chellaney hopes that the US and Indian leaders take concrete steps to reset and deepen the bilateral relationship.
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    The Dark Side of EU Deregulation

    Alberto Alemanno warns that the bloc’s efforts to reduce bureaucratic red tape will do more harm than good.

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