Carnegie International Economics Program

Recovery: The Global Financial Crisis and Middle-Income Countries

There is no single solution to the effects of the financial crisis on middle-income countries, but introducing fundamental labor market reforms to create high-paying jobs will be the key ...

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WTO Reform: The Time to Start Is Now

The languishing Doha Round of global trade talks elicits questions about the limitations of the World Trade Organization, just as economic crisis and burgeoning protectionist pressures de...

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Migrants and the Global Financial Crisis

Migrants are economic assets for both their host and home countries, but the global financial crisis has disproportionately affected migrants, who are both economically and politically v...

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Paradigm Lost: The Euro in Crisis

The debt crisis that began in Greece quickly engulfed Europe and now threatens the global recovery and the future of the euro. Despite unprecedented support from the European Union and IM...

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Five Surprises of the Great Recession

The Great Recession included five major surprises: (1) the severity of the global trade and output collapse, (2) the United States suffered a milder than expected recession, (3) Europe sa...

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Is Protectionism Dying?

Although World Trade Organization policies helped limit the increase in protectionist measures during the recent financial crisis, a mutually reinforcing set of legal and structural chang...

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Impact of The Global Financial Crisis: Predictions Gone Wrong

When the global financial crisis struck, the purveyors of conventional wisdom had it all figured out. Latin American countries would surely mismanage the crisis, as they have in the past....

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  • 03 / 30 / 2011

Whither Africa?

After stagnating for decades, economic growth in Africa has accelerated, but Uri Dadush and Shimelse Ali warn that policy makers must tackle tough reforms before the world’s poorest conti...

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Global Rebalancing: The Dangerous Obsession

Uri Dadush warns that the obsession with global rebalancing stokes currency and protectionist tensions and diverts attention from what is really needed—reforms at home.

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Juggernaut: How Emerging Markets Are Reshaping Globalization

In Juggernaut, Uri Dadush and William Shaw explore the rise of developing countries and how they will reshape the economic landscape. Dadush and Shaw project that the global economy will ...

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  • 05 / 31 / 2011

Making the Transition: From Middle-Income to Advanced Economies

Few middle-income countries have successfully transitioned into advanced economies in the past twenty years. As the world struggles with a new economic slowdown, middle-income countries s...

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Currency Wars

In September 2010, Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega shocked the world by launching the opening salvo in what he called a “currency war.” Mantega claimed that emerging markets were...

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