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In an op-ed published in The New York Times , Ben Bernanke argues that the US government should not repeat the mistakes made during the Gre...

Despite strict lockdowns, supply chains disruptions, sharp economic contraction, and high unemployment rate, the COVID-19 recession is not...

The latest World Economic Outlook (April 2015) by the IMF focuses on potential output growth . It argues that the world economy is facing a...

Here is a summary of the interesting debate on secular stagnation started by Bernanke on his blog at Brookings . Achieving full employment,...

Net oil importing countries (including those who import only) are enjoying the low petroleum prices in the international market as it helps ...

The OECD and WTO have come up with trade in value added database covering mostly OECD countries. It presents an entirely different picture...

Justin Yifu Lin and Volker Treichel argue that it is not the global imbalances, but excess demand in the US that caused the global financia...

In its newly released Global Economic Prospects (GEP) 2012 , the World Bank argues that GDP in South Asia slowed to an estimated 6.6 percen...

David Romer argues that fiscal tools are needed for short run stabilization, especially when the economy is in a liquidity trap (zero lower...

Here is an interesting article in The Economist that looks at why the public support slashing foreign aid but not defense spending during a...

Mohamed A. El-Erian explains what happened and what needs to happen in the Western economies: Each development, and certain...

Jeff Sachs writes : A failure of economic strategy and leadership lies behind the near simultaneous collapse of market confidence in th...

1. De and Iacovone on Did NAFTA increase productivity? . “The results show that the North American Free Trade Agreement stimulated the pro...

For 30 years, Washington has been shopping a trade-not-aid based economic diplomacy across Latin America and beyond. According to what ...

High income countries are facing a “new normal” (a combination of low growth, high unemployment and low returns on investment). Some of the ...

A “ High Level Trade Experts Group ”, co-chaired by Jagdish Bhagwati and Peter Sutherland, argues that passage of the Doha Round is doable ...

[…] The deep pockets of the United States' civilian program in Pakistan-in the form of $1.5 billion a year in development assistanc...

Global imbalances -- the coexistence of large deficits and surpluses in the global economy, such as too much spending by U.S. co...

Credit levels will need to double over the next 10 years, growing by US$ 103 trillion, to support consensus-projected economic growth....

Nepal's trade deficit with major trading partners (US$ million) Year Balance of Trade (BoT) India United States Germ...