Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
How Important is the Unemployment Rate for the Wage Rate?
Persistent changes in unemployment have lasting consequences for income distribution
How Bankers Hide Losses
The Master and the Prodigy
It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”
US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Pharmaceutical in the Last Decade
Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for every new drug approved between 2010 and 2019
Professor Kako Nubukpo: COVID-19 Shows that Global Value Chains Shouldn’t Keep Africa in Chains of Dependence
During this interview, Professor Kako Nubukpo, Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Lomé, Togo and former Minister of Prospective and Evaluation of Public Policy of Togo considers the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 crisis and its repercussions on monetary policy and fiscal reforms underway in West and Central Africa today.
Reply to Andrew Smithers
African Youth Lead Response to COVID-19
Chioma Agwuegbo of TechHer Nigeria, talks to Folashadé Soulé and Herbert Mba Aki about how the pandemic is impacting young people in Nigeria, especially young women, and how African youth are tackling the crisis.
Why Do Economists Have Trouble Understanding Racialized Inequalities?
Mainstream economics ignores historical and structural factors by design
Immaculate Deception
Europe’s Fateful Choices for Recovery – An Italian Perspective
To fight COVID-19, the EU must recognize that spending restraints have to go
Elites Have Made the American Dream a Nightmare for Black People. Who’s Next?
Researchers reveal the enemies to stability and prosperity that threaten us all.
Felwine Sarr : La crise du COVID-19 indique une nécessité de changement et de repenser le monde de demain
Entretien avec Pr Felwine Sarr, Professeur Titulaire des Universités et agrégé en économie à l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis au Sénégal, pour la série d’INET sur COVID-19 et l’Afrique
Felwine Sarr: The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates the need to change track and re-think the world of tomorrow.
An interview with Professor Felwine Sarr, Professor of Economics at the Université Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis in Senegal, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa
Benno Ndulu: The pandemic has laid bare the pivotal roles of both the informal sector and SMEs
We're in a Moment of Collective Trauma. But There Are Glimmers of Hope
A special note from INET board member john a. powell