Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

Paper: Demography, Inclusive Growth and Youth Employment in Africa
The youth paradox is accentuated by the effects of Covid-19, while the concrete short- and medium-term prospects for young people remain unclear.


Should Central Bank Liquidity Provision Be a Vehicle for Fiscal Discipline?
By helping abate the liquidity crisis, incidences of banks becoming insolvent are reduced, and hence moral hazard in its severest form is minimized.

Economist Betsey Stevenson: Dads Seeking Time With Kids Will Drive Workplace Change
In a trend that has surprised social scientists, fathers are seeking better work/life balance and rejecting their pre-pandemic status as secondary parents – a movement that’s good for moms, too.

Halloween Is Over - Are Corporate Zombies Still Out There?
Swift reorganization or liquidation of insolvent businesses is the single best policy to deal with corporate debt booms.


Does America Want a CHIPS for Buybacks Act?
To strengthen the American semiconductor industry, Congress should condition additional funds on suspending stock buybacks

Why Did the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan So Fast?
The Taliban was strategic in its use of violence, exercising restraint to influence military assessments of their capabilities in order to encourage more rapid withdrawals.

Libertarians and the Vaccine: Give Me Liberty and Give Them Death
If libertarians wish to maintain their self-centered fixation on their own freedoms without considering others, let them do so — in indefinite quarantine from the rest of us.

The Economic Mechanism Behind the Populist Backlash to Globalization
The increase in populism that import competition causes has its roots in import competition’s adverse effects on local labor markets