The Ukraine war has focused minds on win-win policies from ending coal and oil subsidies to raising petrol taxes on petrol
May 2, 2022, Opinion: "The U.S. system for taxing international corporate income has long been dysfunctional. It is needlessly complex and…
June 2022, Paper: "We use supervisory loan-level data to document that small firms (SMEs) obtain shorter maturity credit lines than large…
May 2, 2022, Opinion: "The debt moratoria introduced early in the pandemic provided temporary relief for private borrowers, and may have…
Kathryn Sikkink (* 1955) is a political scientist who has contributed considerably to making human rights a field of research. Born into a…
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing countries appeared to be generally on a converging path with income levels in the wealthiest…
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome,…
Highlights
• Fighting a pandemic in poor countries may involve not just a trade-off between lives and livelihoods, but an even more…
China's lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding China's loans, the…
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles,…