There is also another body of work around inequality that has looked much more at poverty, talked about inequality as inequalitybetweencountries, and documented the fact that addressing poverty has helped shrink inequality between countries. But we, again, bring a new aspect by focusing on inequal...
Why Is HSBC Leaving Brazil and Turkey?Daniel Altman
In Factfulness, the late Hans Rosling argues that most people don't have a clear idea of the world's actual degree of development. There are a number of reasons for this, but the biggest is that human beings have a strong instinct for drama and an instinct to notice the bad m...
this context is an ideal testing ground for my theory for two reasons. First, African countries face high incentives to hide debt from IFIs. In the past twenty years, every country on the continent has experienced IMF and World Bank
There is a danger to a slow vaccine rollout. The global population and economy continue to be at risk as the virus mutates, creating more transmissible forms. This reality is playing out in countries such as India and Brazil which are suffering from surges wit...
Universal basic income(UBI) is an old idea that is gaining considerablemomentum, partly due to the threat of automation. There may not be enough paid employment to go around. "I appreciate that argument," Basic Income Earth Network (BEIN) co-chair Karl Widerquist told Investopedia. "But I'...
Why is there a scarcity of food for poor people in India? Why does the economic growth model predict that poor countries should catch up to rich countries in income per capita? Have poorer countries been catching up (converging) with richer countries? Explain Why is China so rich? What are...
Is there a corrective to the status quo? Can we improve on the one-size-fits-all “working longer” vision? As the evidence on labor force participation has shown, promoting working longer as a straightforward response to population aging leaves behind around half of the U.S. population who...
financial investors have had to contend with two equity market collapses, in 2000 and 2008; the steepest one-day decline in history on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1987; an emerging-market crisis that ...
2. International trends, policy responses in Africa on skills anticipation and employer engagement One of the conundrums of educational preparation for work is that employers don’t always do the training that they appear to need. There are many arguments for why this is the case, with the cla...