Hamid Rashid

Hamid Rashid, a former director-general for multilateral economic affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bangladesh and senior adviser at the UNDP's Bureau for Development Policy, is Chief of Global Economic Monitoring at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

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Closing Developing Countries’ Capital Drain

Closing Developing Countries’ Capital Drain

Feb 18, 2016 Joseph E. Stiglitz & Hamid Rashid warn that large stockpiles of reserves may not be enough to prevent a financial crisis.

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What’s Holding Back the World Economy?

What’s Holding Back the World Economy?

Feb 8, 2016 Joseph E. Stiglitz & Hamid Rashid say that developed countries' policies have created a growth-killing array of perverse incentives.

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Subprime Borrowers
Margaret Scott

Sub-Saharan Africa’s Subprime Borrowers

Jun 25, 2013 Joseph E. Stiglitz & Hamid Rashid

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America’s New Trade Hypocrisy

America’s New Trade Hypocrisy

Jul 6, 2006 Joseph E. Stiglitz & Hamid Rashid

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A COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan

Larry Hatheway

The rapid escalation of the COVID-19 crisis may be setting the stage for a global recession. Economic policymakers have no time to waste in preparing a response – preferably one that makes full use of low and falling bond yields, below-target inflation, and the lessons of the last recession.

The West’s Final Countdown?

Joschka Fischer

With the US presidential election approaching, no one can say they didn't foresee the possibility of Donald Trump winning a second term – an event that would pose an existential threat to the very idea of "the West." So why are European leaders spending their time squabbling over agriculture subsidies?