Whither the U.S. Dollar
Is the U.S. dollar really doomed? If it were for some headlines, you would certainly think so. Because of the “Made in the U.S.A” financial crisis, growing budget deficits…
Is the U.S. dollar really doomed? If it were for some headlines, you would certainly think so. Because of the “Made in the U.S.A” financial crisis, growing budget deficits…
Increasing food and oil prices are making life miserable for millions of people. According to our World Bank estimates, the food price hike since last July has already pushed…
Commodity prices are experiencing a lot of volatility right now, with food and oil prices nearing record highs. But what about the medium-term? The answer is fundamental for developing…
The last 20 years have seen a growing engagement between development and human rights practitioners. But are we still mainly talking past each other? Or has there been valuable…
2008 is so last decade. And yet, the recent hike in food prices is bringing food costs near the dangerous levels of that year, creating enormous vulnerabilities in developing…
There has been an ongoing debate on the future need for foreign aid—a debate made ever more crucial by the current budget constraints in many countries as a result…
Last week’s State of the Union underscored the debate surrounding public spending as a measure to stimulate economic growth. President Barrack Obama argued that to “win the future” the…
The 2008–09 crisis opened the door to a different kind of thinking in international macroeconomics—and closed it on some of the previous orthodoxy. Let’s take a look at some…
From the Latin American Debt crises to East Asia’s financial sector turmoil, past macroeconomic shocks have traditionally affected women differently than men. Such asymmetries are even more evident in…
Strong opinions abound on the issue of migration both in sending and receiving countries. But beyond the political discourse, labor migration is now central to the debate on international…
Why is it that some countries are more developed than others? A country is “less developed” not only because it lack inputs (labor and capital) but because it uses…
The Day After Tomorrow: A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World (at the Wilson Center) https://youtu.be/bAu0GhuwX7Y Economists Otaviano Canuto (right) and Marcelo Giugale pointed to a major…
Introduction to The Great Recession and Developing Countries: Economic Impact and Growth Prospects Otaviano Canuto and Justin Yifu Lin
This is the fourth in a series of blogs where we take a look at the issues and the countries that will be at the forefront of the development…
An energetic debate on the danger of a global currency war has flared up in recent months, stoked by a renewed move to “quantitative easing” in the United States,…