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Central Banks and Inequality
While the economic recovery around the world remains uneven, fragile, and unbalanced across sectors, financial markets are generally doing very well, thanks! In the United States, only half of the unemployment caused by the pandemic last year has been reversed, while stock markets continued to boom.
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Biden’s Fast Start
The new president of the United States has already issued over 40 executive orders, reversing many of Donald Trump’s most contentious policies. Biden’s arrival will likely help heal internal and international divisions. His policies are also likely to boost U.S. economic growth in the short-run and make it more equitable and sustainable.
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Cooperation Critical to Reducing Divergent Paths to Recovery in Middle East and Central Asia
This article was originally published on IMF blog.
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Is Vietnam a Currency Manipulator? Implications for Developing Countries – Comments on the U.S. Treasury Report
WASHINGTON-The December 2020 U.S. Treasury Report (hereafter referred to as the TR) to Congress singled out Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators. In Vietnam’s case, it is surprising that the U.S. Treasury openly expressed its concerns about a country that graduated from the group of low-income countries only a few years ago.
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A matter of life and death: governments must speed up vaccination
COVID-19 vaccination in Europe and the United States is moving too slowly and is failing to prevent avoidable death and economic disruption. More must be done to accelerate the campaign by targeting those most at risk.
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La disparition de DG DEVCO : mauvais temps pour la coopération internationale au développement
La crise sanitaire a porté un coup dur au modèle de la coopération internationale au développement par projets, la modalité la plus répandue. Finies (ou presque, ou en tout cas mutées à des modalités de télétravail) les myriades de gestionnaires de projets et d’experts internationaux et nationaux pour des missions de formulation, d’assistance technique, d’évaluation.
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La théorie des enchères nobélisée
Le Prix Nobel 2020 des Sciences économiques, décerné à Robert B.Wilson et Paul Milgrom, pour leur contribution à « l'amélioration de la théorie des enchères et les inventions de nouveaux formats d'enchère », était tout, sauf une surprise.
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ADEL Portrait : Jordan Kronen
Bright and open-minded, this young American has already achieved a lot at just 28 years of age. Since February 2019, he has been serving as Legislative Assistant to Democratic Senator Liz Lovelett in Olympia, Washington. “Working for a senator whose values I share is really a dream come true,” he says.