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Reda Cherif

Reda Cherif

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Reda Cherif, Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund, is an affiliated researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.

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  1. The Electric Vehicle Revolution Goes Global
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    The Electric Vehicle Revolution Goes Global

    Aug 30, 2021 Reda Cherif, et al. argue that rapid adoption of EVs in developing and emerging economies is both possible and necessary.

  2. How to End the Pandemic This Year
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    How to End the Pandemic This Year

    Oct 1, 2020 Mariana Mazzucato, et al. call for a mission-oriented push to administer frequent universal COVID-19 testing worldwide.

  3. How Developing Countries Create Industrial Champions
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    How Developing Countries Create Industrial Champions

    Jan 16, 2020 Reda Cherif, et al. urge firms and policymakers to draw three lessons from the earlier success of Asia's “miracle” economies.

  4. A “True” Industrial Policy for All
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    A “True” Industrial Policy for All

    Oct 30, 2019 Reda Cherif & Fuad Hasanov welcome the return of state-led innovation and development strategies in a world of faltering growth.

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    Donald Trump’s Tariffs Would Hurt US Workers and Businesses

    Maurice Obstfeld shows why targeting an overall reduction in imports would reduce America’s real wages and national income.
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    Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief

    Bogolo Kenewendo & Patrick Njoroge propose large-scale relief to ensure that the continent’s countries can invest in climate action.
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    Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more

    Diane Coyle advocates a new public philosophy that rejects viewing “government” and “market” as opposites, explains why time-use data must shape technological development, warns that policymakers are devising AI regulation in a thick conceptual fog, and more.
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    A New Paradigm for Standing Forests

    Ajay Banga, et al.

    While forest carbon markets have created new revenue streams, they usually reward only those countries, communities, or project developers who are focused on reducing their emissions from deforestation. Something more is needed to tie financial rewards to forests that aren’t under immediate threat.

    present a new mechanism to generate financial returns for countries that prevent deforestation.
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    Working-Class Antiheroes

    Ngaire Woods advocates using domestic labor legislation that supports unionization – not tariffs – to protect workers.
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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian

    Historically, massive revisions to the international system have come about only after a complete breakdown of the previous order. With today's global institutions sorely in need of reform, can the transition to a new order be achieved without incurring the costs and pain that such a breakdown would entail?

    explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.
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    US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China

    Michael R. Strain decries both parties’ reluctance to prepare Americans for the employment opportunities of today and tomorrow.
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    Harris Is the Freedom Candidate

    Joseph E. Stiglitz sees a common thread running through the Democratic nominee’s economic agenda.
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    The Global Economy’s Hidden Weaknesses

    Eswar Prasad looks beyond promising headline trends to identify deep-seated risks and barriers to growth.

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