Health and Healthcare Systems
The rise of Covidnomics
Boundaries between academic disciplines are always artificial creations intended to facilitate analysis, given our limitations. But as the economist Albert Hirschman once argued, there ar...
Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, is Professor of Economics at Cornell University and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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Financial and Monetary Systems
The assumptions that underpin modern economics need reviewing. This is why
The unexpected financial crash of 2008, the persistence of the slowdown that occurred in its wake, the failure of conventional monetary and fiscal policies to revive economies, and the cr...
Economic Growth
Why we should formalize our shared humanity into a Global Constitution
After decades of globalization, there are more conflicts and disputes spanning multiple jurisdictions than ever before, and they will not be resolved by paying lip service to our shared h...
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Inequality is intolerable. The wealthy should call out an unfair system
Many wealthy people in the United States and elsewhere support the objective of curbing extreme economic inequality. They should not allow allow themselves to be silenced by right-wing ac...
Le triste état de l'économie mondiale
NEW-YORK – Janvier est traditionnellement le mois où l'on fait le bilan de l'année précédente, tout en essayant de prévoir ce que réserve la nouvelle année. Malheureusement, alors que nou...
Un doigt d’optimisme pour 2019
KOLKATA (CALCUTTA) – Au terme d’une année de traumatismes politiques et de conflits, je me suis senti pris d’un sentiment assez inattendu d’optimisme. J’étais à Mumbai, et je pouvais voir...
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
This is what you need to know about Bangladesh's remarkable economic rise
As a result of progressive social policies and a bit of historical luck, Bangladesh has gone from being one of the poorest countries in South Asia to an aspiring "tiger" economy. But can ...
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
It's time to totally change how we think about inequality
Around the world, the effects of alarmingly high economic inequality are spilling over into politics and society. Economic insecurity is a driving force behind violent conflicts in the Mi...
Geographies in Depth
L’arrivée de l’Afrique
NEW YORK – La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) vient de publier son rapport Perspectives économiques de l'Afrique pour 2018. La version remaniée publiée cette année – plus courte q...
Economic Growth
Les inégalités au 21e siècle
A la fin d'une année "médiocre et malhonnête" qui n'est pas sans rappeler la "décennie médiocre et malhonnête" évoquée par W.H Auden dans son poème September 1, 1939, l'espérance se dissi...
Economic Growth
La economía global en 2067
El mundo está pasando por una crisis económica en cámara lenta, a la que la mayoría de los expertos no le encuentra fin a la vista. Desde la crisis de 2008, la economía global viene creci...
La inseguridad de la desigualdad
La desigualdad global hoy ha llegado a niveles observados por última vez a fines del siglo XIX y sigue aumentando. Con ello ha surgido una creciente sensación de privación de derechos que...
Economic Growth
Why reducing inequality could be a matter of survival
Global inequality today is at a level last seen in the late nineteenth century – and it is continuing to rise. With it has come a surging sense of disenfranchisement that has fueled alien...
Emerging Technologies
Is technology making inequality worse?
