Steven J. Klees

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Steven J. Klees, an economist, is Professor of International Education Policy at the University of Maryland and a co-editor of The World Bank and Education: Critiques and Alternatives.

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Financing Universal Education
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Financing Universal Education

Aug 3, 2017 Steven J. Klees proposes alternatives to market-fundamentalist approaches to international aid.

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The False Promise of Cost-Benefit Analysis
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The False Promise of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Jun 1, 2017 Steven J. Klees explains why technocrats' most important tool is all but useless for making sound policy choices.

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Pro-Growth is Not Pro-Poor
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Pro-Growth is Not Pro-Poor

Oct 9, 2015 Steven J. Klees makes the case that inequality can be addressed only through redistributive policies.

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Getting Universal Education Right

Getting Universal Education Right

Sep 23, 2015 Steven J. Klees warns that the SDGs for education will not be met if more funding is not made available.

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Europe on a Geopolitical Fault Line

Ana Palacio

China has begun to build a parallel international order, centered on itself. If the European Union aids in its construction – even just by positioning itself on the fault line between China and the United States – it risks toppling key pillars of its own edifice and, eventually, collapsing altogether.

Is Economic Winter Coming?

Raghuram G. Rajan

Now that the old rules governing macroeconomic cycles no longer seem to apply, it remains to be seen what might cause the next recession in the United States. But if recent history is our guide, the biggest threat stems not from the US Federal Reserve or any one sector of the economy, but rather from the White House.

Will China Confront a Revolution of Rising Expectations?

Barry Eichengreen

Amid much discussion of the challenges facing the Chinese economy, the line-up of usual suspects typically excludes the most worrying scenario of all: popular unrest. While skeptics would contend that widespread protest against the regime and its policies is unlikely, events elsewhere suggest that China is not immune.