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Yuen Yuen Ang

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Yuen Yuen Ang, Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell University Press, 2016) and China’s Gilded Age (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

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  1. China’s Economic Paradox
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    China’s Economic Paradox

    Sep 4, 2024 Yuen Yuen Ang explains a seemingly contradictory trajectory characterized by a high-tech boom and stagnating growth.

  2. How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    May 10, 2024 Yuen Yuen Ang explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.

  3. Mismeasuring Corruption Lets Rich Countries Off the Hook
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    Mismeasuring Corruption Lets Rich Countries Off the Hook

    Mar 22, 2024 Yuen Yuen Ang shows what conventional rankings get wrong, and proposes a better approach to measuring the problem.

  4. The Moral of the China Story
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    The Moral of the China Story

    Dec 11, 2023 Yuen Yuen Ang explains why the world’s second-largest economy has gone from being a model to a warning in just six years.

  5. The False Choice Between Neoliberalism and Interventionism
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    The False Choice Between Neoliberalism and Interventionism

    Apr 18, 2023 Yuen Yuen Ang calls on policymakers to think more creatively about how to accelerate economic development.

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    Only a Sustainable Bioeconomy Can Save Us

    Simon Zadek argues that investing in biodiversity while the global economy continues to over-exploit resources is futile.
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    The IMF Must End Its Destructive Surcharges

    Joseph E. Stiglitz, et al.

    The International Monetary Fund’s surcharge policy has led to an unseemly state of affairs: countries in financial distress have become the largest source of net revenue to the Fund in recent years. These surcharges must be eliminated or, at the very least, adjusted to reduce the excessive burden on highly indebted countries.

     decry the counterproductive practice of imposing additional fees on countries in debt distress.
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    Conflict and Competitiveness in Europe

    Ana Palacio supports the EU reform agenda recently proposed by former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
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    China Shuts Down Its International-Adoption Machine

    Yi Fuxian

    When it comes to alleviating the severe demographic crisis that China faces, prohibiting international adoptions of Chinese children amounts to a mere drop in the bucket. Still, the government's decision to do so is significant, as it reflects a long-overdue recognition that people should not be viewed as a burden.

     welcomes the government's apparent recognition that a severe demographic crisis looms.
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    From the Year of Elections to the Year of Governance

    Adam Nelson & Kristen Sample highlight five major challenges reformist governments must confront to minimize populist threats.
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    Africa’s Path to Green Prosperity

    Erik Berglöf highlights the potential that a young population and abundant renewable-energy resources represent.
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    Saving the Planet from Plastics

    Jayati Ghosh explains why recycling alone is not enough to mitigate the health and climate effects of overproduction.
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    What Harris and Trump Will Do

    With less than two months to go until the US presidential election, the candidates’ opposing worldviews, objectives, and priorities – and their implications for international relations, the economy, and democracy – have come into sharper focus. While it is impossible to know exactly what a leader will do once in office, the contours of both a Donald Trump and a Kamala Harris presidency are remarkably well defined.

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