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Kaushik Basu

Kaushik Basu

Writing for PS since 2002
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Kaushik Basu, a former chief economist of the World Bank and chief economic adviser to the Government of India, is Professor of Economics at Cornell University and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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  1. Can the Global Economy Avoid a Lost Decade?
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    Can the Global Economy Avoid a Lost Decade?

    May 3, 2023 Kaushik Basu explains why the coming global downturn will be more challenging than previously expected.

  2. Halting the Authoritarian Drift
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    Halting the Authoritarian Drift

    Mar 29, 2023 Kaushik Basu considers the dynamics that lead political leaders down the road to tyranny, paranoia, and aggression.

  3. How Singapore Impresses
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    How Singapore Impresses

    Mar 3, 2023 Kaushik Basu reflects on how the country became one of the world’s richest within less than 50 years.

  4. A Lesson from West Bengal
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    A Lesson from West Bengal

    Jan 23, 2023 Kaushik Basu shares what he learned about the state of Indian education on a trip to a remote rural area.

  5. The G20 and G Minor
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    The G20 and G Minor

    Jan 4, 2023 Kaushik Basu explains how the group can address disparities between the Global North and South as further crises loom.

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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
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    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen

    Rather than seeing themselves as the arbiters of divine precepts, Supreme Court justices after World War II generally understood that constitutional jurisprudence must respond to the realities of the day. Yet today's conservatives have seized on the legacy of one of the few justices who did not.

     considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    How the Far Left Paves the Way for the Far Right

    Andrés Velasco

    In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

     blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric for the rapid rise of the authoritarian populist José Antonio Kast.
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    Creeping Toward Dystopia

    Robert Skidelsky worries that even elected governments will appropriate emerging technologies in the name of national security.
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    The Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming

    Sameh Shoukry assesses recent efforts to implement a crucial initiative agreed at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
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    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.
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    How Can the New EU Regulation Achieve Deforestation-Free Supply Chains?

    Joann de Zegher explains why transaction-level records are crucial to curbing the destruction of the world’s forests.

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