Paolo Mauro

Writing for PS since 2015
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Paolo Mauro, Assistant Director in the African Department at the International Monetary Fund, coauthored World on the Move: Consumption Patterns in a More Equal Global Economy with Tomas Hellebrandt while a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics.

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Checks and Balances Before Roads and Bridges
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Checks and Balances Before Roads and Bridges

Feb 24, 2017 Paolo Mauro proposes how to meet the urgent need for more, well-executed infrastructure investment worldwide.

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Curbing Chinese Corruption
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Curbing Chinese Corruption

Sep 15, 2015 Paolo Mauro explains why graft and bribery have not impeded economic growth – until now.

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Why America Should Join the AIIB
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Why America Should Join the AIIB

Jun 12, 2015 Paolo Mauro offers strong reasons for the US to use its influence in China’s new infrastructure bank.

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Whither Central Banking?

Lawrence H. Summers & Anna Stansbury

In an environment of secular stagnation in the developed economies, central bankers’ ingenuity in loosening monetary policy is exactly what is not needed. What is needed are admissions of impotence, in order to spur efforts by governments to promote demand through fiscal policies and other means.

The Unsustainability of Inequality

James K. Galbraith

By treating inequality exclusively as a microeconomic issue, economists have been missing the point for decades. There is ample evidence to show that income disparities within countries have more to do with global financial forces than with local labor-market conditions.