The meager growth in employment during December is a reminder that the recession remains painful, especially for the least educated. The…
In his acceptance speech as Chairman of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) in February 2010, President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi…
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as…
The most contentious aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the individual mandate requiring that most…
Last year, the leaders of all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council visited India, accompanied by delegations of…
Policy analyses frequently clash. Their disagreements stem from many sources, including models, empirical estimates, and values such as who…
This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in
the first nine waves of the Health and…
How households draw down the balances that they accumulate in retirement saving accounts such
as 401(k) plans and Individual Retirement…
Suppose that the world’s leading policymakers were to meet again in Bretton Woods, New HampÂshire, to design a new global economic order.…
Lawrence Haddad started the year with provocative predictions. Below are my comments, knowing that in the end we will get most of it wrong…