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T. N. Srinivasan is Professor of Economics at Yale University and Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford University.

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Can India Survive Globalization?

Can India Survive Globalization?

Jul 24, 2003 T.N. Srinivasan & Nirvikar Singh

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The Problem With Evidence-Based Policies
Feb 28, 2016

Ricardo, I am sure, knows that RCT is a method for making an internally valid inference from the sample with which the RCT experiment was done. To extend its findings beyond the sample and the experiment is not statistically valid ---for validation of findings to other contexts would in general require repeating the experiment in each context or embedding all contexts in a super model and use the relevant statistical inference techniques. This is well known and uonderstood, Ricardo should read Section 7e.2 of C.R. Rao.s classic text Linear Statistical Inference.
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The Best Tool to Fight Climate Change
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The Best Tool to Fight Climate Change

Jeffrey Frankel says governments must urgently start to raise the price of greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Putin’s Meaningless Coup
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Putin’s Meaningless Coup

Sergei Guriev

The message of Vladimir Putin’s call in his recent state-of-the-nation speech for a constitutional overhaul is not that the Russian regime is going to be transformed; it isn’t. Rather, the message is that Putin knows his regime is on the wrong side of history – and he is dead set on keeping it there.

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Closing the SDG Gap
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Closing the SDG Gap

Kevin Watkins says rapidly reducing global inequalities is crucial to fulfilling the United Nations' 2030 agenda.

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The Truth About the Trump Economy
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The Truth About the Trump Economy

Joseph E. Stiglitz

It is becoming conventional wisdom that US President Donald Trump will be tough to beat in November, because, whatever reservations about him voters may have, he has been good for the American economy. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Hostages of History
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Hostages of History

Carl Bildt says that the sooner the US and Iran put common sense ahead of past grievances, the better off everyone will be.

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Work in the Twenty-First Century PS OnPoint
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Work in the Twenty-First Century

Jane Humphries & Benjamin Schneider

Although work commands the bulk of most people's time and attention, there is very little clarity about how it will change with the adoption and diffusion of powerful new technologies. Fortunately, far from being predetermined, the future of work will be whatever we make it.

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The New Davos Challenge
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The New Davos Challenge

Alexander Friedman, et al. offer concrete proposals for making “stakeholder capitalism” a reality, rather than a slogan.

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What Could Spoil 2020?
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What Could Spoil 2020?

Anatole Kaletsky considers ten events that threaten to alter the likely benign scenario for the global economy this year.

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