292 Results for “COVID 19”
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Article
Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive
Jul 13, 2023
By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policymakers could turn today’s food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems
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Video
The Debt Puzzle
Jun 7, 2023
How do governments accumulate such high levels of debt without constant major crises? Who is paying the price?
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Article
A New Approach for Estimating Firm-Level Cyber-Risk Exposure
May 22, 2023
Using computational linguistics to estimate firm-level cyber risk exposure based on quarterly earnings conference calls.
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Article
¿Otra crisis de la deuda en el Sur Global? Economista revela la clave para entenderla.
Apr 17, 2023
Martín Guzmán, ex ministro de Economía de Argentina, explica cómo el rol del poder debe ser central en la investigación económica, especialmente cuando se trata de deuda soberana.
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Another Debt Crisis in the Global South? Economist Reveals the Key to Understanding It
Apr 17, 2023
Martin Guzman, Argentina’s former Minister of Economy, explains how the role of power should be central to economic research – especially when it comes to sovereign debt.
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Video
Basic Income: Poverty v. Power
Apr 5, 2023
Daniel Zamora Vargas discusses his new book “Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income” co-authored with Anton Jäger.
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Basic Income: A Global History
Apr 5, 2023
Anton Jäger discusses his new book “Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income” co-authored with Daniel Zamora Vargas.
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Article
People’s Deposits Are Safe From Bank Failures But Not From the Economic Fallout
Mar 27, 2023
Bank failures don’t threaten most deposits, but they do threaten jobs
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Article
Why is America So Anti-City? It Holds Back the Entire Country.
Mar 20, 2023
A new book by economist Richard McGahey examines the country’s anti-urban structure and ideology, offering insights on how American cities can thrive.
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Podcasts
The Big Myth of Market Fundamentalism
Mar 16, 2023
Historians Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) and Erik Conway (Caltech) talk to Rob about their just released book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.
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Now Is the Time for More Ambition From Multilateral Development Banks and Their Shareholders
Mar 14, 2023
Vera Songwe, Chair of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility, and former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, on the multiple crises facing African countries.
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YSI Event
YSI Conference on Debt Sustainability
YSI
ConferenceApr 28–30, 2023
Discussions on the key conceptual and policy themes for sovereign debt sustainability with a view to proposing possible policy reforms.
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Article
The Two Global Consensuses That Defined the Development Paradigm in Ghana Are Under Threat
Feb 27, 2023
Honorary Vice President at IMANI Center for policy and education, Bright Simons, on the challenges Ghana is facing
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Podcasts
Survival of the Richest
Feb 16, 2023
Oxfam’s Economic Justice Director, Nabil Ahmed, and Oxfam International’s Inequality Policy & Advocacy Lead, Max Lawson, discuss their latest Global Inequality Report, which highlights the accelerating pace at which the world’s billionaires have increased their wealth exponentially in recent years. They also discuss the ways in which governments can reverse this trend through taxation.
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The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022: A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
Feb 2, 2023
Why the conventional tools of the Phillips Curve, NAIRU, potential output, and money-supply growth are useless