
What can be done about COVID-19 debt surges
Economies across the globe face a daunting challenge: the highest global debt levels seen in half a century. As The Aftermath of Debt Surges points out, policymakers need to prepare for t...
1975, BA (Hons), Yale University; 1980, PhD in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Former: Economist, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University; Counsellor and Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund; Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University. Member: National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science; Council on Foreign Relations; Group of Thirty. Former Guggenheim Fellow. Author on policy issues in international finance, including exchange rates, international debt issues and international monetary policy. Co-Author, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (2009), Author, The Curse of Cash (2016). Monthly columnist on global economic issues for Project Syndicate.
Economies across the globe face a daunting challenge: the highest global debt levels seen in half a century. As The Aftermath of Debt Surges points out, policymakers need to prepare for t...
Los próximos meses nos dirán mucho respecto de la forma de la futura recuperación global. Pese a la ebullición de las bolsas, subsiste una incertidumbre generalizada en torno de la COVID‑...
The next few months will tell us a lot about the shape of the coming global recovery. Despite ebullient stock markets, uncertainty about COVID-19 remains pervasive. Regardless of the pand...
¿Disparará finalmente la COVID-19 la tan esperada disrupción tecnológica en la educación superior? En todo el mundo, los repentinos confinamientos a mitad de semestre para combatir la pan...
Will COVID-19 finally trigger a long-overdue technological disruption of higher education? Throughout the world, sudden mid-semester lockdowns aimed at combating the pandemic forced unive...
CAMBRIDGE – Le Covid-19 va-t-il enfin conduire à la révolution technologique de l'enseignement supérieur nécessaire depuis si longtemps ? A travers le monde, le confinement soudain destin...
À l’heure où le virus du COVID-19 se propage à travers le monde, la paralysie économique et le chômage sont voués à lui emboîter le pas. Les retombées économiques de la pandémie pour la p...
Conforme el virus de la COVID‑19 se propaga por el mundo, la parálisis económica y el desempleo van detrás. Pero las consecuencias económicas de la pandemia serán probablemente mucho peor...
As the COVID-19 virus spreads globally, economic paralysis and unemployment follow in its wake. But the economic fallout of the pandemic in most emerging and developing economies is likel...
Comparée à la catastrophe économique qui s'annonce, chaque jour qui passe, la crise financière mondiale de 2008 ressemble de plus en plus à une plaisanterie. Dés à présent, l'effondrement...
Con cada día que pasa, la crisis financiera global de 2008 se va pareciendo cada vez más a un mero ensayo para la catástrofe económica actual. El derrumbe inmediato de la producción globa...
Will the next recession be worse than you think? With the major central banks having little space for further interest-rate cuts, might the next cyclical downturn become a crash? In theor...
While denizens of the world’s wealthiest economies debate the fate and fortune of the middle class, over 800 million people worldwide have no access to electricity. And more than two bill...
CAMBRIDGE – Alors que les habitants des économies les plus riches du monde débattent de l'avenir de la classe moyenne, plus de 800 millions de personnes dans le monde n'ont pas accès à l'...
Is it time for the United States to consider switching from income tax to a progressive consumption tax as a way of addressing growing wealth inequality? Many economists have long favored...