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India’s Slowdown May Have a Silver Lining
By Roberto Guimarães and Laura Papi The extent of the recent slowdown in India’s growth rate has surprised most India watchers even in the face of ongoing international financial market volatility, hi… more →
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India’s Slowdown May Have a Silver Lining
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wrote 4 days ago: By Roberto Guimarães and Laura Papi The extent of the recent slowdown in India’s growth rate has sur … more →
What’s happening in the US job market
wrote 4 days ago: What’s happening in the US job market today: Things have dramatically changed in the first half of 2 … more →
Economics - New Links for Students from the IMF
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wrote 1 week ago: The IMF’s well written Finance & Development magazine has recently published two helpful o … more →
Why the Arab World Needs an Economic Spring
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wrote 1 week ago: By Nemat Shafik (Version in عربي) What strikes you on a trip to the Middle East is that everyone is … more →
Escaping the Resource Curse
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wrote 1 week ago: By Mauricio Villafuerte It reads like a script for a Hollywood movie—a poor protagonist happens upon … more →
Africa and the Great Recession: Changing Times
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wrote 2 weeks ago: By Antoinette Sayeh (Version in Français) In previous global downturns, sub-Saharan Africa has usual … more →
The Critical Nature of U.S. Economic Growth
wrote 2 weeks ago: In the first quarter of 2012, the U.S. economy grew at a sluggish annual rate of 2.2 percent, even l … more →
Making Sure Middle East Growth Is Inclusive
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wrote 2 weeks ago: By Nemat Shafik (Version in عربي) The uprisings that spread across the Middle East and North Africa … more →
Scary Numbers and Data
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Anyone who has been paying attention already knows that about 50% of Americans pay no federal income … more →
Consumer vs. Government Debt
wrote 2 weeks ago: As American consumers have deleveraged, household debt as a percentage of GDP has fallen to its lowe … more →
Latin America: Vulnerabilities Under Construction?
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wrote 2 weeks ago: By Luis Cubeddu, Camilo E. Tovar, and Evridiki Tsounta (Version in Español) Housing construction pro … more →
A Chief Investment Officer's Homework is Never Done
wrote 2 weeks ago: I just returned from the Financial Planning Association’s Retreat Conference where I was an invited … more →
Fiscal Consolidation: Striking the Right Balance
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wrote 2 weeks ago: By David Lipton (Version in Español) The debate on austerity vs. growth has gained in intensity, as … more →
A dramatic event in Europe
wrote 3 weeks ago: ___________________________________________________ Europe has today been hurled into its own … more →
Housing Market Performance--March 2012
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wrote 3 weeks ago: New Residential Construction Table 1 summarizes the Census Bureau’s March new residential constructi … more →
Taxes and Spending
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wrote 3 weeks ago: The “taxing vs. spending” debate continues in Washington and will do so right through the November e … more →
Debt Update
wrote 4 weeks ago: At Pinnacle Trust, we’ve been talking about the debt problem way before talking about the debt probl … more →
Jobs and Growth: Can’t Have One Without the Other?
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wrote 4 weeks ago: By Min Zhu (Version in Español) As Frank Sinatra crooned about love and marriage, so it seems about … more →
Arab Countries in Transition Under the Spotlight
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wrote 4 weeks ago: By Masood Ahmed (Version in عربي) Historic transitions in several Arab countries are coming under in … more →
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