Thirty years ago, China had a tiny footprint on the global economy and little influence outside its borders, save for a few countries with…
It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to grow more rapidly than those without. This is…
A new technique for estimating countries’ de facto exchange rate regimes synthesizes two approaches. One approach estimates the implicit…
Thirty years ago, China had a tiny footprint on the global economy and little influence outside its borders, save for a few countries with…
It is rare for countries to give up their currencies and thus their ability to influence such critical aspects of their economies as…
Work on good governance implies a one-best-way model of effective government. This has isomorphic influences on development, whereby…
China’s undervalued currency and huge trade surplus pose great risks to the world economy. They threaten a major protectionist backlash in…
Given the importance of financial sector development for sustained economic growth, especially in the context of Vietnam’s own performance…
A new technique for estimating countries’ de facto exchange rate regimes synthesizes two approaches. One approach estimates the implicit de…
Why does the International Monetary Fund make it so hard for people like me to love it?
The IMF has said and done all the right things…