Ten things to know about Gita Gopinath, the first woman Chief Economist at IMF
Here are 10 facts about IMF s first woman Chief Economist Gita Gopinath, a key leader charting monetary and economy pathways of countries around the world.
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We are days away from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman revealing the Union Budget 2021, India s first Budget after COVID-19. Even before the pandemic, India s economy was on a downward trajectory, and COVID-19 and the resultant lockdowns made it even worse.
One of the key asks across industries has been relief measures so that companies can recover their losses and rebuild business in a new normal
Jeff Prince is Professor and Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He is also the Harold A. Poling Chair in Strategic Management and Co-Director of the Institute for Business Analytics at Kelley. He recently served as Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission. He is an accomplished empirical researcher in the broad categories of industrial organization and applied econometrics. His primary focus is on technology markets and telecommunications, having published works on dynamic demand for computers, Internet adoption and usage, the inception of online/offline product competition, and telecom bundling. His research also encompasses topics such as household-level risk aversion, airline quality competition, and regulation in healthcare and real estate markets. His works have appeared in top general interest journals in both economics and management, including the American Economic Review, the International Econo
The recent refugee crisis has fuelled discussions about policies restricting immigration. This column quantifies the extent to which asylum policies affect emigration by analysing the migration decisions of German Jewish refugees in the 1930s. Policies have large effects on migration as the effects are multiplied through peers who influence each other in the decision to
Tom Hertz, Tamara Jayasundera, Patrizio Piraino, Sibel Selcuk, Nicole Smith, Alina Verashchagina
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis for children that is expected to reduce their skills, or human capital, through the effect of school closures (Burgess and Sievertsen 2020, Fuchs-Schündeln et al. 2020), as well as through parental job and income loss and mental health issues (Moroni et al. 2020). Economic evidence suggests that the negative consequences are likely to be much worse for children from poorer backgrounds (Tominey 2020) whose reaction to negative events is larger than for other children. Because learning begets learning (Carneiro et al. 2020), there is likely to be a long-term loss of child skills and targeted government policy is crucial.
Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South
At first blush, Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president brings respite from a world threatened by Donald Trump’s climate-denialist, dictator-coddling, xenophobic, racist, misogynist, rules-breaking regime. On second thought, 2021 will also initiate an unwelcome restoration of legitimacy to Western imperialism akin to Barack Obama’s rule. Biden’s (2020) recent
Foreign Affairs article began by stressing how since 2017, “the international system that the United States so carefully constructed is coming apart at the seams.” In reconstructing imperialism, Biden may draw upon a legislative and public-advocacy record dating to the 1980s, based upon consistent service to several internationally ambitious circuits of U.S. capital: