Why a war on poor people?
Daniel Little – American conservatives for the past several decades have shown a remarkable hostility to poor people in our country…One piece of the puzzle seems to come down to ideology … Continue reading
Towards a Quantifiable Measure of Resilience
Christophe Béné – The objective of this paper is twofold. First it illustrates and discusses some of the challenges related to the measurement of resilience by reviewing some of the … Continue reading
The Urgency of Enrolling Out-of-School Children
Milan Thomas – Although significant progress toward achieving universal primary education has been made over the past decade, out-of-school children (OOSC) remain a pervasive global problem. According to one estimate, … Continue reading
The New Poor in Latin America
In this paper we identify a group of people in Latin America and other developing countries that are not poor but not middle class either. We define them as the … Continue reading
Serious threat to Asian Economic Model
Martin Khor – The Western countries are increasingly attacking the Asian model, claiming that state-owned companies or state-aided commercial firms have an unfair advantage vis-à-vis the foreign firms competing with them…Of … Continue reading
From Austerity To Growth
Stephany Griffith-Jones – The discussion about additional financial capacity for the EU has not led to tangible results so far. We hope EU leaders will take visionary steps in the … Continue reading
The Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation
IMF paper that examines the distributional effects of fiscal consolidation. Using episodes of fiscal consolidation for a sample of 17 OECD countries over the period 1978–2009, we find that fiscal … Continue reading
The Austerity Pandemic
Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins – Most countries are cutting public expenditures – with the IMF’s support. So, even as some northern countries begin to question the austerity prescription, their southern … Continue reading
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