Ascent After Decline: Regrowing Global Economies After the Great Recession

Otaviano Canuto, Danny Leipziger

• Q&A transcript: Regrowing the Global Economy with co-editor and World Bank VP Otaviano Canuto

The great recession of 2007-09 has left permanent scars in the world economy, and the global recovery has lost steam. Advanced economies are still struggling with high unemployment and debt, and the remarkable role that emerging markets have played as engines of the recovery is no longer certain. In this new book, co-edited by Otaviano Canuto and Danny M. Leipziger, more than a dozen distinguished contributors scan the economic horizon, spell out the new fiscal reality, and highlight the policy choices on which economic regrowth will depend.

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INDIVIDUAL SECTIONS (PDF DOWNLOAD)

• About the Editors and Contributors
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• “The Challenges of Growth,” by Otaviano Canuto, Danny M. Leipziger, and Brian Pinto
• “Rebalancing Global Growth,” by Menzie Chinn, Barry Eichengreen, and Hiro Ito
• “Fiscal Policy and Growth: Overcoming the Constraints,” by Carlo Cottarelli and Michael Keen
• “Infrastructure Policy for Shared Growth Post-2008: More and Better, or Simply More Complex?” by Antonio Estache
• “Rethinking Growth and the State,” by Philippe Aghion and Julia Cagé
• “Financial Shocks and the Labor Markets: Should Economic Policy Save Jobs?” by Tito Boeri and Pietro Garibaldi
• “Information Technology, Globalization, and Growth: The Roles of Scale Economies, Terms of Trade, and Variety” by Catherine L. Mann
• “Innovation-Driven Growth: Analytical Issues and Policy Implications,” by Paolo Guerrieri and Pier Carlo Padoan
• Index

WATCH THE BOOK LAUNCH EVENT

NOTE: This event took place March 12, 2012. The 92-minute WMV video linked below is an archive of the live streamed event. Clicking the image will launch your Windows Media Player application.

PANELISTS:
• Marcelo Giugale, Sector Director, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management, Africa Region, World Bank
• Otaviano Canuto, Vice President, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management, World Bank
• Danny M. Leipziger, Professor of International Business, George Washington University
• Nemat Shafik, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
• William Cline, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development & Peterson Institute for International Economics