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December 2019, Paper, "Jordan faces a number of pressing economic challenges: low growth, high unemployment, rising debt levels, and continued vulnerability to regional shocks.…
December 4, 2019, Opinion, "More inclusive global growth in a world with free capital mobility does not require a “global” government that taxes and redistributes, but it does…
November 12, 2019, Opinion, "Many people, including economists, wonder why a scheduled 3% fare increase on the Santiago metro triggered mass protests that paralyzed the entire…
Female Labor in Jordan: A Systematic Approach to the Exclusion Puzzle. Ricardo Hausmann, Tim O'Brien, Miguel Santos, October 2019, Paper, "Women in Jordan are excluded from labor…
Don’t Blame Economics, Blame Public Policy. Ricardo Hausmann, September 1, 2019, Opinion, "Engineering and medicine have in many respects become separate from their respective…
How Not to Think About Job Creation. Ricardo Hausmann, July 31, 2019, Opinion, "Governments are right to focus on creating more good jobs, because work is the source of most…
How to Address Venezuela’s Crushing Debt Burden. Ricardo Hausmann, July 10, 2019, Opinion, "The legacy of Chávismo includes a mountain of foreign-currency-denominated claims…
How the Failure of “Prestige Markets” Fuels Populism. Ricardo Hausmann, May 9, 2019, Opinion, "Given the requirements of today’s technology, dismissing expertise as privilege is…
Smart Development Banks. Ricardo Hausmann, 2019, Paper, "The conventional paradigm about development banks is that these institutions exist to target well-identified market…
Humanitarian Markets. Ricardo Hausmann, March 25, 2019, Opinion, "The role of humanitarian assistance is like that of a car battery: it gets the cylinders moving until the…