Stephany Griffith-Jones

Writing for PS since 2002
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Stephany Griffith-Jones is Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University.

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Why the World Needs National Development Banks
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Why the World Needs National Development Banks

May 15, 2019 Stephany Griffith-Jones & José Antonio Ocampo highlight five ways in which countries' development-finance institutions promote sustainable economic growth.

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The G-20’s Helpful Silence on Capital Controls

The G-20’s Helpful Silence on Capital Controls

Oct 30, 2011 Kevin P. Gallagher, et al.

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Damming Capital

Damming Capital

Apr 19, 2011 Stephany Griffith-Jones, et al.

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A Modest Proposal for the G-20
Dean Rohrer

A Modest Proposal for the G-20

Apr 1, 2011 Wing Thye Woo, et al.

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Self-Financing Development

Self-Financing Development

Aug 30, 2008 Stephany Griffith-Jones, et al.

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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 Anatomy of the Coming Recession

Nouriel Roubini

Unlike the 2008 global financial crisis, which was mostly a large negative aggregate demand shock, the next recession is likely to be caused by permanent negative supply shocks from the Sino-American trade and technology war. And trying to undo the damage through never-ending monetary and fiscal stimulus will not be an option.