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…
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…
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
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,…
It is becoming common wisdom that developing countries are doing well while the rich world is stuck in long-overdue austerity. Barring another subprime crisis (this time, in public debt),…
Otaviano Canuto, José Manuel Salazar 28 June 2010 (VoxEU) Economic integration transmitted the negative shocks of the crisis to workers across the world. As the global economic recovery begins, this column…
The current recovery in advanced economies is now exhibiting several signs of fragility. Their medium term growth prospects also look difficult. In this environment two questions arise: Will developing…
In PREM Note 141 released last week, Milan Brahmbhatt and Luiz Pereira da Silva point to several structural differences between the global economy today and in the 1930s that tend to…
Aggressive and innovative monetary and financial sector policy actions in developed economies have pulled the global financial system back from the brink of an abyss. But impaired assets are…
Krishna Guha in Washington MAY 22, 2007 Brazil’s representative at the World Bank on Tuesday challenged the tradition by which the US decides who will be the bank’s president. In…