Economic Policy Blog

Analysis and commentary on development banking, economic policy, and the global economy.

Year-Half Assessment of Investment Banks’ Forecast Accuracy

July 2006

After BRICs, Goldman Sachs Names the Next Eleven Promising Economies

July 2006

Robert Mundell, the Renminbi, and Misapplied Theory

June 2006

Why I Think Petroleum Revenue Cannot Buy Development

June 2006

The Failed Chinese Education System

June 2006

On Nicholas Kristof and the Chinese Internet Censorship Loophole

June 2006

Should Journalists Be Economists?

June 2006

A Beginner’s Guide to Development Economics

June 2006

What Do Surveys Tell Us on How to Win Latin America’s Soul?

May 2006

Economic Growth Is Ultimately Good for the Environment: Cross-Country Evidence

May 2006

Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists

May 2006

Minimum Wage: China vs India

May 2006

China’s Pearl River Delta

May 2006

The Political Economy of Hatred: What Causes Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Anti-Americanism

April 2006

The Lasting Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure in India

April 2006

Culture and Economic Development: Trust, Self-Determination, and Regional Prosperity

April 2006

Is What’s Good for Hindustan Motors Good for India? Corporate Stability vs. Economic Growth

April 2006

Will China Grow Rich Before It Grows Old? The Graying of the Middle Kingdom

April 2006

Chinese GDP Grows 10.2%: Politics and the Boom-Bust Cycle

April 2006

Globalization and Its Discontents

April 2006

Socialism or Capitalism? Lessons from China and Vietnam

March 2006

Easterly vs. Sachs: The Development Aid Debate

March 2006

Chicago Economists on the Iraq War

March 2006

Unlimited Labor Supply in China? Not Anymore!

March 2006

Why Is India’s Financial System Less Solvent?

February 2006

Why Does Thaksin Shinawatra Have So Many Supporters?

February 2006

The Fake China Threat

February 2006

South Korea and the Asian Development Model

February 2006

No Regulation Is Unbeatable: People Always Respond to Incentives

February 2006

Equatorial Guinea: Second Richest Country in the World!

February 2006

China and India: Who Is Hot in 2006?

February 2006

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

January 2006

A Single Asian Currency?

January 2006

Fix Mexico’s Banks, Not China’s

January 2006