Op-Eds, Articles and Publications
2009
"Clunker of a Climate Policy", Scientific American, November 2009.
"It's too late to seal a global climate deal. But we need action, not Kyoto II" The Guardian, 30 September 2009
"American has passed on the baton", Financial Times, 29 September 2009
"The G-20: bring on the peer pressure" Post-gazette.com, 25 September 2009
"Biodivesity Conservation and the Millennium Development Goals" with Jonathan E. M. Baillie, William J. Sutherland, Paul R. Armsworth, Neville Ash, John Beddington, Tim M. Blackburn, Ben Collen, Barry Gardiner, Kevin J. Gaston, H. Charles J. Godfray, Rhys E. Green, Paul H. Harvey, Brett House, Sandra Knapp, Noëlle F. Kümpel, David W. Macdonald, Georgina M. Mace, James Mallet, Adam Matthews, Robert M. May, Owen Petchey, Andy Purvis, Dilys Roe, Kamran Safi , Kerry Turner, Matt Walpole, Robert Watson, Kate E. Jones, Science, 18 September 2009
"Good News on Malaria Control", Scientific American, August 2009
"Digital Soil Map of the World", with Pedro A. Sanchez, Sonya Ahamed, Florence Carré, Alfred E. Hartemink, Jonathan Hempel, Jeroen Huising, Philippe Lagacherie, Alex B. McBratney, Neil J. McKenzie, Maria de Lourdes Mendonça-Santos, Budiman Minasny, Luca Montanarella, Peter Okoth, Cheryl A. Palm, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Keith D. Shepherd, Tor-Gunnar Vågen, Bernard Vanlauwe, Markus G. Walsh, Leigh A. Winowiecki, Gan-Lin Zhang, Science, 7 August 2009
"Bank Bonuses and the Reform Agenda in the Balance", Huffington Post, 6 August 2009.
"Still Needed: A Climate Plan" Scientific American, July 2009
"Rethink the Global Money Supply" Scientific American, June 2009
"Needed: a New Generation of Problem Solvers," with John McArthur, The Chronice of Higher Education, 26 June 2009.
"Towards a global fund for the health MDGs?" with Paul Pronyk, The Lancet, 20 June 2009
"No Need to Oversimplify Poverty" Huffington Post blog, 1 June 2009
"Paying for What Government Should Do" Scientific American, May 2009
"The New Global War on Malaria" with Raymond G. Chambers, in Realizing the Right to Health, Volume 3, Andrew Clapham and Mary Robinson, eds. ruffer & rub, Zurich 2009
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"Moyo's Confused Attack on Aid for Africa" with John McArthur, Huffington Post Blog, 27 May 2009
"Without Aid, Rwanda's Investment Programmes Would Have Collapsed", FT.com, 27 May 2009
"Aid Ironies" Huffington Post blog, 24 May 2009
"Putting a Price on Carbon: An Emissions Cap or a Tax?" Yale Environment 360, May 7, 2009
"Food For Thought" Economy Viewpoint, The Report - Senegal 2009, Oxford Business Group, April 2009
"Can Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty?" in Controversies in Globalization, Peter M. Haas, John A. Hird, Beth McBratney eds. CQ Press, Washington DC, 2009
"Needed: A Fiscal Framework -- not a Stimulus" Scientific American, April 2009
"The big ZERO in G20" with Brett House, Mail & Guardian online. April 21, 2009
"Homegrown Aid," The New York Times, 8 April 2009.
"The Geithner-Summers plan is worse than you think," with Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ft.com, 6 April 2009.
"The Geithners-Summers Plan is even worse than we thought," Huffington Post blog, 6 April 2009.
"G20 accomplishments beyond expectation," Huffington Post Blog, 2 April 2009.
"Go beyond small steps, " in 'Room for debate: The Art of Persuasion at the G20 Summit', New York Times, 1 April 2009.
"The Economic Need for Stable Policies, Not a Stimulus" Scientific American, March 2009
"Making rich guys richer," Huffington Post Blog, 29 March 2009.
"Crisis with a Cure", Financial Times Health Supplement, 26 March 2009.
"Obama's bank plan could rob the taxpayer," FT.com, 25 March 2009.
"Will Geithner and Summers try to raid the FDIC?", Huffington Post Blog, 23 March 2009.
"Capitalism and Moral Sentiments," Huffington Post Blog, 21 March 2009.
"3 billion poor people need world's help" CNN.com, 20 March 2009
"Transforming the Auto Industry" Scientific American, February 2009
"An Industrial Policy for Climate Change", McKinsey Quarterly, 23 February 2009.
"Recession Watch: Boost the Developing World," Nature, 18 February 2009.
"How to bring back the Big 3", Fortune, 17 February 2009.
"A proposal on how to clean the banks," Huffington Post Blog, 12 February 2009.
"5 points on the critical state of the economy," Huffington Post Blog, 9 February 2009.
"A strategy of contingent nationalisation," FT.com, 5 February 2009.
"Blackouts and Cascading Failures of the Global Markets" Scientific American, January 2009
"Eight Principles for a Global Agreement on Climate Change," COP15 UN Climate Change Change Conference Blog, 28 January 2009.
"Rewriting the rule book for 21st Century capitalism," The Guardian, 28 January 2009.
"Input Subisidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution", with Glenn Denning, Patrick Kabambe, Pedro Sanchez, Alia Malik, Rafael Flor, Rebbie Harawa, Phelire Nkhoma, Colleen Zamba, Clement Banda, Chrispin Magombo, Michael Keating, and Justine Wangila, PLoS Biology, 7(1): e1000023, 27 January 2009. [Download article as PDF]
"The stimulus is a fiscal straitjacket," FT.com's The Economists' Forum, 27 January 2009.
"Smallholder Food Production and Poverty Reduction: Principles for a Financial Coordination Mechanism to Support Smallholder Farmers" Ad Hoc Advisory Group to the Madrid Conference on Food Security,
Chaired by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, IDEAS Foundation, 26 January 2009.
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"The Case for Bigger Government" Time Magazine, 8 January 2009.
2008
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, Penguin Press 2008
"Extreme poverty," with Gordon C. McCord, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Steven N. Durlauf and
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"Regional development, geography of," with Gordon C. McCord, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Steven N. Durlauf and
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"Priorities for Fixing the Financial Crisis" Scientific American, December 2008
"Monday Meltdown: How Lehman's Fall Created a Global Panic" Fortune, 15 December 2008.
"The Obama Generation Takes the Helm" GOOD Magazine, 10 December 2008.
Testimony to the Committee on Financial Services on "Review of Industry Plans to Stabilize the Financial Condition of the American Automobile Industry", 5 December 2008
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"Looking after the Future" Scientific American, November 2008
"A New System for Development Aid" FT.com's Comment, 28 November 2008.
Testimony to the Committee on Financial Services on "Stabilizing the Financial Condition of the American Automobile Industry", 19 November 2008
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"A Bridge for the Carmakers" Washingfton Post, 17 November 2008.
"Better Cities, Better Life: Challenges for Shanghai" Shanghai Daily, 12 November 2008
"Obama Needs Time to Rescue Economy" Irish Times, 11 November 2008
"Work With the World: The US cannot go it alone if it is to get through the financial mess", The Guardian, 10 November 2008.
"Job One: Some thoughts on what Obama's top priority should be [comment]" 9 November 2008.
"Scaling up Primary Health Services in Rural Tamil Nadu: Public Investment Requirements and Health Sector Reform" with Nirupam Bajpai, Ravindra H. Dholakia, CGSD Working Paper No. 36, October 2008
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"Scaling up Primary Education Services in Rural Tamil Nadu: Public Investment Requirements and Reform" with Nirupam Bajpai, Ravindra H. Dholakia, CGSD Working Paper No. 35, October 2008
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"Boom, Bust, and Recovery in the World Economy" Project Syndicate, October, 2008
"Coping with a Persistent Oil Crisis" Scientific American, October 2008
"The Best Recipe for Avoiding a Global Recession", FT.com, 27 October 2008.
"Amid the rubble of global finance, a blueprint for Bretton Woods II", The Guardian, 21 October 2008.
"How to Rebuild America", Fortune, 14 October 2008
"The Specter of Malthus Returns" Scientific American, September 2008
"The American Anti-Intellectual Threat", BusinessWorld, 24 September 2008.
"Using Carbon Taxes to Pay for Development", FT.com, 24 September 2008.
"Puzzlement at banks' bail-out while aid commitments flounder", FT.com, 23 September 2008.
"This week should see real progress on poverty alleviation", FT.com, 22 September 2008.
"Millennium Goals at the Midpoint" Scientific American, August 2008
"Safety in Numbers", Time, 28 August 2008.
"The Digital War on Poverty", The Guardian, 21 August 2008.
"The Millennium Development Goals: running out of excuses" G8 Summit 2008 publication, July 2008.
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"Land, Water and Conflict" Newsweek, July 2008
Review of "One Minute to Midnight" by Michael Dobbs (Random House, 2008) and "Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History" by Theodore Sorenson (Harper, 2008). Jewcy Magazine, July 2008
"A Deadline on Malaria" Scientific American, July 2008
"The Olympics and China" People's Daily, July 2008
"Climate Change: feed it and weep, or lead and reap", Sydney Morning Herald July 25, 2008
"How to Solve the Growing Global Food Crisis, in Three Steps", NY Daily News, July 23, 2008
"A User's Guide to the Century" The National Interest, July 2, 2008
"Progress summary of the MDGs: update for ministers" The Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book, June 2008
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"Surging Food Prcies and Global Stability" Scientific American, June 2008
"Less talk, more action needed" The Guardian, 25 June 2008
"The Challenge of Sustainable Development in Asia" International Herald Tribune, June 16, 2008
"Stagflation is Back. Here's How to Beat it" Fortune June 9, 2008
"The African Green Revolution" Scientific American, May 2008
"We Need a Power Surge" Time Magazine, May 29, 2008
"How to Feed the World" Newsweek, May10, 2008
"Bhagwati and Sachs on the Food Crisis" International Herald Tribune, May 7, 2008
"The African Green Revolution," Scientific American, April 2008
"Technological Keys to Climate Protection," Scientific American, March 2008
Slate Book Club on Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
"Common Wealth," TIME Magazine, March 2008
“Bien Común.” Centro de Investigación Social, Un Techo Para Chile. Año 7, No. 12. Segundo Semestre 2008. Santiago, Chile, translated from “Common Wealth” TIME Magazine, March 2008
"Climate Change after Bali," Scientific American, February 2008
"Primary Health for All," Scientific American, January 2008.
"Scaling up Primary Health Services in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka: Public Investment Requirements and Health Sector Reform," with Nirupam Bajpai, Ravindra H. Dholakia, CGSD Working Paper No. 33, January 2008
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"Scaling up Primary Education Services in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka: Public Investment Requirements and Policy Reform," with Nirupam Bajpai and Ravindra H. Dholakia, CGSD Working Paper No. 34, January 2008
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"Paths to Peace Through Compassion, Cooperation and Sustainable Development" SGI, 24 January 2009
2007
HELP Commission Minority Report, "Revamping U.S. Foreign Assistance" with Leo Hindery, Jr. and Gayle E. Smith, December 2007
"Meaningful Goals for Climate Talks," Scientific American, December 2007.
"Scaling up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment," with Awash Teklehaimanot and Gordon C. McCord, The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 77(Suppl 6), 2007, pp. 138–144. [Download Paper as PDF]
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"Climate Change and the Law," Scientific American, November 2007.
"Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa," Scientific American, October 2007
"The Forbes One Billion," Forbes, October 2007.
“The African Millennium Villages,” with Sanchez et al., Proceedings of the
"Breaking the Poverty Trap," Scientific American, September, 2007
"A Global Coalition of Good," TIME Magazine, September 2007.
Letter to the Editor, The Economist, August 2007
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"Making Development Less Risky," Scientific American, August 2007
"The Promise of the Blue Revolution," Scientific American, July 2007.
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"What a Little Fertilizer Can Do" Time, July 26, 2007.
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"The Secretary-General: Indispensable for Sustainable Development," UN Chronicle, Issue 1, 2007.
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"Climate Change Refugees," Scientific American, June 2007.
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Escaping the Resource Curse, with Macartan Humphreys, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University Press, June 2007.
"How I'd fix the World Bank," Fortune, June 26, 2007.
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"Malaria Control Calls for Mass Distribution of Insecticidal Bednets," with Awash Teklehaimanot and Chris Curtis, The Lancet, June 21, 2007.
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"Enough Excuses, Canada," The Ottawa Citizen, June 13, 2007.
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"The Road to Clean Energy Starts Here," Scientific American, May 2007.
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"How the Rich World can Help Africa Help Itself," Financial Times, May 30, 2007.
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"Rapid Victories Against Extreme Poverty," Scientific American, April 2007.
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"Threats of War, Chances for Peace," Scientific American, March 2007.
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"A Climate For Change," TIME Magazine, March 8, 2007.
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"Take the guessing out of giving aid to Africa," Financial Times, March 1, 2007.
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"Moving Beyond Kyoto," Scientifc American, February 2007.
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"Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Techonology," with Dalton Conley and Gordon C. McCord, NBER Working Paper 12892, February 2007.
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"The Neglected Tropical Diseases," Scientifc American, January 2007.
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"The $10 Solution," TIME Magazine, January 4, 2007.
2006
"The Challenge of Sustainable Water ," Scientific American, December 2006.
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Poverty, AIDS and Hunger: Breaking the Poverty Trap in Malawi, with Anne C. Conroy, Malcolm J. Blackie, Alan Whiteside, Justin C. Malawezi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
"The Importance of Investment Promotion in the Poorest Countries," in World Investment Prospects to 2010: Boom or Backlash?, Economist Intelligence Unit and Columbia Program on International Investment, New York, 2006.
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"How Aid Can Work," New York Review of Books (Letter), December 21, 2006.
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"Welfare States Beyond Ideology," Scientific American, November 2006.
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"Fiddling While the Planet Burns," Scientific American, October 2006.
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"Hitting the Target," with Guido Schmidt-Traub, Words into Action, IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings, September 2006.
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"Lower Fertility: A Wise Investment," Scientific American, September 2006.
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"Does Conservation Matter to the Poor?," Nature Conservancy Magazine, Summer 2006.
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"Virtuous Circles and Fragile States," Scientific American, August 2006.
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"Ecology and Political Upheaval," Scientific American, July 2006.
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"It Only Takes a Village," with Nirupam Bajpai, India Today, July 2, 2006.
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"The New Geopolitics," Scientific American, June 2006.
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"Pay for it Now, or Pay for it Later," The Globe and Mail, June 19, 2006.
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"75th Anniversary of AIDS Pandemic: 10 cents for every $100 Could Save Millions of Lives," ABC News Online, June 2, 2006.
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"Investments Toward Sustainable Development," with Walter V. Reid, Science, Vol. 312, May 19, 2006.
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"Aid Skeptics Thrive on Pessimism," Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2006.
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"Net Gains," The New York Times, April 29, 2006.
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"How to Help the Poor: Piecemeal Progress or Strategic Plans?," The Lancet, Vol. 367, No. 9519, April 22, 2006.
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"How the Fund can Regain and Sustain Global Legitimacy," The Financial Times, April 20, 2006.
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"Fighting Tropical Diseases," with Peter Hotez, Science, Vol. 311, March 17, 2006.
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"Incorporating a Rapid-Impact Package for Neglected Tropical Diseases with Programs for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria," with Peter Hotez, David H. Molyneux, Alan Fenwick, Eric Ottesen and Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, PLoS Medicine, 3(5): e102, February 2006.
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2005
"Why the U.S. Needs the U.N. More than Ever," Opening Argument, Vol. 1, Issue 2, December, 2005.
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"A Robust Strategy for Sustainable Energy," with Klaus Lackner, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 2005.
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, The Penguin Press: New York, 2005.
Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Millennium Project, (Director), Earthscan: New York, 2005.
"Challenges of Sustainable Development Under Globalization," lecture delivered at the University of Sydney, October 14, 2005. Published in International Journal of Development Issues, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 2005.
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"A Global Compact to End World Poverty: Jeffrey Sachs on Stabilisation, Transition and Weapons of Mass Salvation," interview by Brian Snowdon. Published in The World Economy, Vol. 6, No. 4, October-December, 2005.
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"Understanding African Poverty: Beyond the Washington Consensus to the Millennium Development Goals Approach," with Gordon McCord and Wing Thye Woo, in Africa in the World Economy, Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (eds.), FONDAD: The Hague, 2005.
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“Globalization and Patterns of Economic Growth,” in Globalization: What’s New, Michael M. Weinstein (ed.) Columbia University Press: New York, 2005.
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"It is Time for Fine Words to Give Way to Meaningful Action," Financial Times, December 27, 2005.
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"Scaling Up Primary Health Services in Rural India," with Nirupam Bajpai and Ravindra H. Dholakia, CGSD Working Paper No. 29, November 2005.
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"Scaling Up Primary Education Services in Rural India," with Nirupam Bajpai and Ravindra H. Dholakia, CGSD Working Paper No. 28, November 2005.
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"Response to Amir Attaran," with John McArthur & Guido Schmidt-Traub, PLoS Medicine, November 29, 2005.
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"The Time for Action," DACNews, September-October 2005.
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"The Cost of Making the Poor Pay," SciDev.Net, with Awash Teklehaimanot & Gordon McCord, October 31, 2005.
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"Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated?" Scientific American, September 2005.
Reprinted in Cooperation South, United Nations Development Programme, 2005.
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"A Role for Everyone," Alliance Magazine, September 2005. Interview with Jeffrey Sachs.
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“2005 – The Year of Development,” Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report 2005, September 2005
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“What it will take to meet the Millennium Development Goals,” with John McArthur and Guido Schmidt-Traub, Sustainable Development International, Fifteenth Edition, September 2005.
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"Ambition and action are as important as commitments," Financial Times, September 15, 2005.
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"Millennium Development Goals 'not doomed to fail',"SciDev.Net, with John McArthur and Guido Schmidt-Traub, September 13, 2005.
"US leadership may be set to reach a consensus with the world's poorest," Financial Times, September 13, 2005.
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2005 U.N. World Summit Blog, Financial Times (online), September 12-16, 2005.
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"Why Aid Does Matter," BBC Online, September 11, 2005.
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"Beckoning for our Hands," The Guardian, September 7, 2005.
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"Look Into the Future," The Guardian (special supplement), September 3, 2005.
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"Economic Possibilities for our Time," 16th Annual Panglaykim Memorial Lecture, Jakarta, Indonesia, August 2005.
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"A European Development Fund for the MDGs," with John McArthur and Guido Schmidt-Traub, Revamping Development Efforts: An Assessment of Development Policy in the EU, European Policy Centre Issue Paper 36, July 2005.
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"Hope and generosity can triumph over hate," Financial Times, July 11, 2005.
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"Spirit of London a Lesson for the World," Financial Times (online), July 4-8, 2005.
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"The year of development," G8 Summit 2005: Mapping the Challenges, Newsdesk/Agora, 6-8 July 2005.
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"How Africa lit up the world," Sunday Times Magazine, July 3, 2005.
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"The Year of Development," Global Future, Second Quarter, 2005.
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"Aiuti e poverta," Aspenia, n. 29, June 2005.
"Testimonials" with Goldman, Samuelson & Weitzman, Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 47, June 2005.
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"The End of Poverty," Optima, Vol. 51, No. 2, June 2005.
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"Four Easy Pieces," The New York Times, June 25, 2005.
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"Africa's Suffering is Bush's Shame," Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2005.
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"India in the Era of Economic Reforms: From Outsourcing to Innovation," with Nirupam Bajpai, Think On , May 2005.
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"The Development Challenge", Foreign Affairs, March/April 2005.
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"Augmenter l'aide publique avant qu'il ne soit trop tard," Jeune Afrique l'Intelligent - l'Etat de l'Afrique 2005, April 2005.
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"India's Challenge to Meet the Millennium Development Goals," with Nirupam Bajpai and Nicole H. Volavka, CGSD Working Paper No. 24. April 2005.
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"The end of the world as we know it," The Guardian, April 5, 2005.
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"It is time to free the World Bank," Financial Times, March 23, 2005.
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"The End of Poverty," Time, March 14, 2005.
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"What the President Doesn't Want to Hear," Esquire, February 2005.
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"India Can Achieve its Date with Destiny by 2015 with Planning," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Week, February 27, 2005.
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"An accountable approach to aid," Financial Times, January 24, 2005.
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"The Millennium Project: A plan to meet the Millennium Development Goals," Lancet, Vol. 365, January 22, 2005.
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"A Practical Plan to End Poverty," Washington Post, January 17, 2005.
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"Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The Case of Malaria," New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 352, No. 2, January 13, 2005.
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"The Class System of Catastrophe," Time, January 10, 2005.
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2004
“We Can End World Hunger: Here’s How,” with Pedro Sanchez, World Ark, November/ December 2004.
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"Health in the Developing World: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals," Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Volume 82, No. 12, December 2004.
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“Ethik im Management und nachhaltige Entwicklung," in Ethik im Management, Ruh, Hans and Klaus M. Leisinger , eds. Switzerland : Orell Füssli, Fall 2004.
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"Book Review: Solving Global Crises: Economists Alone are not Enough," Lancet, Vol. 364, December 11, 2004.
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"How to Halve World Poverty," The Economist -- The World in 2005, November 2004.
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"Time for Chile's Next Step in Economic Development," with Gordon C. McCord, Business Chile, November 12, 2004.
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"If the US Won't, Germany Must," Internationale Politik, No. 4, 2004.
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"Ending World Hunger," Poder Magazine, October 2004.
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"Three Years and Three Lessons since 9/11," Facts, September 2004.
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"Mother of All Headaches," Review of The End of Oil and Energy at the Crossroads. OnEarth Magazine, Summer 2004.
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"La lección china a Brasil," Vanguardia Dossier, July-September 2004.
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"Building on the Commonwealth Action Plan," Commonwealth Finance MInisters Report 2004, September 28, 2004.
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"The Malaria Gap," with Pia Malaney and Andrew Spielman, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 71(Suppl. 2), pp. 141-146, August 2004.
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"National Common Minimum Programme of the Congress-led United Progessive Alliance: Policy Reform and Public Investment Requirements," with Nirupam Bajpai, CGSD Working Paper No. 22. August 2004.
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"Seeking a Global Solution: The Copenhagen Consensus neglects the need to tackle climate change," Nature, August 12, 2004.
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"Une révolution verte pour l'Afrique," with Pedro Sanchez, Le Monde, August 10, 2004.
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"How to Run the IMF," Foreign Policy, July-August 2004.
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"Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in South Asia," with Nirupam Bajpai and Nicole H. Volavka, CGSD Working Paper No. 17, July 2004.
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"Myanmar: sanctions won't work," Financial Times, July 28, 2004.
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"The Best Countries in the World," Newsweek, July 26, 2004.
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"Ending Africa' s Poverty Trap," with John W. McArthur, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Margaret Kruk, Chandrika Bahadur, Michael Faye and Gordon McCord, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 2004.
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"Global Services Sourcing: Issues of Cost and Quality," with Nirupam Bajpai, Rohit Arora and Harpreet Khurana, CGSD Working Paper No. 16. June 2004.
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"The G8 must fund the war against poverty," Financial Times, June 7, 2004.
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"Don’t Know, Should Care", The New York Times, June 5, 2004.
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"A Simple Plan to Save the World," Esquire, May 2004.
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"A Global Index of the Stability of Malaria Transmission," with Anthony Kiszewski, Andrew Mellinger, Andrew Spielman, Pia Malaney, and Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 486-498, May 2004.
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"Doing the sums on Africa," The Economist, May 20, 2004.
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"Third World Disease," Ob.Gyn. News May 1, 2004.
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"Sustainable Development," Science, April 30 2004.
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"Priorities for meeting the Millennium Development Goals," with John McArthur, Global Future Magazine, First Quarter 2004.
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"The Challenges Facing Landlocked Developing Countries," with Michael L. Faye, John W. McArthur, and Thomas Snow, Journal of Human Development, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2004.
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"From His First Day in Office, Bush was Ousting Aristide," Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2004.
"Testimony to the House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, on The Situation on Haiti," March 3, 2004.
"Don't fall for Washington's spin on Haiti," Financial Times, March 1, 2004
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"How Bush ruined a decade’s good work," The Banker, February 3, 2004.
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“Touching the Rural Landscape,” with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu Business Line, January 28, 2004.
“The Unfinished Agenda,” with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu Business Line, January 28, 2004.
“India in the era of economic reforms,” with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu Business Line, January 28 2004
"Welcome to the Asian Century," Fortune Magazine, January 12, 2004
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2003
"Who will lead the war on want?" Global Agenda 2003 - Magazine of the World Forum Economic Annual Meeting 2003.
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"Getting Through the Bottleneck," Our Planet: The Magazine of the UNEP, Vol. 13 No 4. (2003 Issue: Globalization, Poverty, Trade, and the Environment)
"The Strategic Significance of Global Inequality," (reprint) Environmental Change and Security Project Report, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Issue 9, 2003.
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"Minding the Gaps," Newsweek International Asia, October-December, 2003.
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“New Challenges 1: The Millennium Development Goals - How Far We Have Come,” Development Cooperation Ireland Annual Report 2003.
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"Panel Discussion- Promoting Better National Institutions: The Role of the IMF," with Jeffrey Frankel, Nancy Birdsall and Guillermo Ortiz, IMF Staff Papers, Special Issue: IMF Third Annual Research Conference, Vol. 50, 2003.
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Human Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty, (guest contributing editor), UNDP: New York, 2003.
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"A Letter from Africa: Confronting our Humanity in an AIDS-Ravaged World," in Pandemic: Facing AIDS, Umbrage Editions : New York, 2003.
Economic Development and the Division of Labor (Foreword), by Xiaokai Yang, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
"IMF Stabilization Programs," with Anne O. Krueger and Stanley Fischer, in Economic and Financial Crises in Emerging Market Economies, Martin Feldstein, ed. Cambridge, MA: NBER, 2003.
"America's disastrous energy plan,"Financial Times, December 23, 2003
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"The New Urban Planning," Development Outreach, The World Bank Institute, November 2003.
"No Place for Piety," The New Scientist, November 8, 2003
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"Mobilization of Domestic and Donor Resources for Health," World Bank Viewpoint, October 2003.
"Call It Our Bolivian Policy of Not-So-Benign Neglect," Washington Post, October 26, 2003
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"The World must not let America set its agenda," Financial Times, October 15, 2003
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"The Roadblock to a Sovereign Bankruptcy Law," Cato Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2003.
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(reprinted in Spanish as “La barrera contra la ley de quiebras soberanas,” in Artana, Daniel and James A. Dorn (eds.), Crisis Financieras Internacionales: ¿Qué Rol le Corresponde al Gobierno? Cato Institute: Buenos Aires, 2004.)
"Spring Broke: Trade Negotiations Gone Wild," The New Republic, September 22, 2003.
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"A Better Use for our $87 Billion," Boston Globe, September 13, 2003.
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"Bush's billions will prolong Iraq's woes," Financial Times,September 10, 2003
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"World needs Japan in fight against diseases," with Joanne Carter, The Asahi Shimbun, August 26, 2003.
"The real target of the war in Iraq was Saudi Arabia," Financial Times, August 13, 2003.
"A Miserly Response to a Global Emergency," Financial Times, July 17, 2003.
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"AIDS Funds Fall Short," with Paul Zeitz, Boston Globe, July 11, 2003.
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"Well-Directed Development Aid can Unlock Forces of Economic Growth," with Philip Lane, The Irish Times, July 10, 2003.
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"If We Cared to, We Could Defeat World Poverty," with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2003.
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" A Rich Nation, a Poor Continent," The New York Times, July 9, 2003.
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"Institutions Matter, but not for Everything," IMF Finance and Development, Vol. 40, No. 2, June 2003.
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"American intentions are tainted by Iraq's oil" Financial Times, May 22, 2003.
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"An economic 'menu of pain'," with Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston Globe, May 19, 2003
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"Scaling-up coverage with insecticide-treated nets against malaria in Africa: who should pay?" with Christopher Curtis et al., The Lancet: Infectious Diseases, Vol. 3, No.5, May 1, 2003.
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"A world for which Bush cares little," Financial Times, April 9, 2003.
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"The United States as a Coastal Nation," with Jordan Rappaport, Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 5-46, March 2003. (previously Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Research Working Paper)
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"Smart Money: What Military Power Can't Do," The New Republic, March 3, 2003.
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"America should not fight AIDS on its own," Financial Times, February 4, 2003.
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"China's Growth after WTO Membership," with Wing Thye Woo, Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1., January 2003.
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"Economic Reforms in Emerging Economies," Lecture at the Centre for Banking Studies, Central Bank of Sri Lanka Occasional Paper No. 46, 14 January 2003.
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"Institutions Don't Rule: Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income," NBER Working Paper 9490, January 2003.
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"Fighting Poverty, Fighting AIDS" Newsweek, January 6, 2003.
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2002
"Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China," with Sylvie Demurger, Wing Thye Woo, Shuming Bao, Gene Chang, and Andrew Mellinger, Asian Economic Papers, Vol. 1 No. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 146-197.
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(previously CID Working Paper no. 77, October 2001 [PDF]).
"Resolving the Debt Crisis of Low-Income Countries," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2002:1.
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"Financing Global Public Goods: Approaches to Health " in Global Public Goods Financing: New Tools for New Challenges, A Policy Dialogue, United Nations Publications, 2002.
"Compensation for 'Meaningful Participation' in Climate Change Control: A Modest Proposal and Empirical Analysis" with T. Panayotou and A. Peterson Zwane, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 43, pp. 437-454, 2002.
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The Latin American Competitiveness Report 2001-2002, (co-editor) World Economic Forum, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002.
The Global Competitiveness Report 2001-2002, (co-editor) World Economic Forum, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002.
- "Introduction - Slowdown and Uncertainty: International Economic Networks in the Wake of September 11, 2001" with Peter Cornelius, John McArthur, Michael Porter and Klaus Schwab
- "Executive Summary" with Michael Porter and John McArthur
- "The Growth Competitiveness Index: Measuring Technological Advancement and the Stages of Development," with John McArthur
"Technological Advance and Long-Term Economic Growth in Asia," with John McArthur, in Technology and the New Economy, Chong-En Bai and Chi-Wa Yuen, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
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"The Global Innovation Divide." in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 3. Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern (eds). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
"Weapons of Mass Salvation," The Economist, October 26, 2002.
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"A New Global Effort to Control Malaria," Science, Vol. 298, 4 Oct, 2002.
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"Sacudir el futuro," Revista Incae, Vol XII, No. 2, September 2002
"Understanding Regional Economic Growth in India," Jeffrey Sachs, Nirupam Bajpai and Ananthi Ramiah In Asian Economic Papers, Vol. 1, Issue 3, Summer 2002.
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(previously CID Working Paper no. 88, March 2002 [PDF])
"The Essential Ingredient," New Scientist, August 17, 2002
"How to save the world in Johannesburg," Financial Times, August 13, 2002
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"Rapid Population Growth Saps Development" Science. July 19, 2002.
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"Market Led Industrialization and Globalization," with X. Yang, Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2002.
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"Investing in Health for Economic Development: Time for US Action." Global HealthLink. March-April 2002.
"Improving the Health of the Global Poor." Science. March 15, 2002.
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"Testimony to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on African Affairs," February 14, 2002.
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"The Economic and Social Burden of Malaria" with Pia Malaney, Nature, Vol. 415, no. 6872, Feb. 7, 2002.
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"AIDS and Africa: Where is the U.S.?" with Sonia Ehrlich Sachs. Boston Globe. February 4, 2002.
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"Duhalde’s Wrong Turn," Financial Times, January 11, 2002
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2001
"Benchmarking Competitiveness in Transition Economies," with Clifford Zinnes and Yair Eilat, Economics of Transition, Vol. 9 (2), pp. 315-53, 2001.
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"Economic Development in Central America" edited by Felipe B. Larrain. Harvard University Press, 2001.
"The Gains from Privatization in Transition Economies: Is 'Change of Ownership' Enough?," with Clifford Zinnes and Yair Eilat. IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 48 (Special Issue), pp. 146-170, 2001.
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Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development, (principal author), report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, World Health Organization, December 2001.
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The Africa Competitiveness Report 2000/2001, (co-editor) World Economic Forum, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.
- "Executive Summary" with Lisa D. Cook
- "The Case for Increased Debt Forgiveness" with Maciej Cuchra and Sara E. Sievers
"A role for public-private partnerships in controlling neglected diseases?" Discussion by Jeffrey Sachs, "Thinking Boldly," pp. 772-3, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2001, 79(8)
"Reducing the Vulnerability to Natural Disasters: Hurricane Mitch and Central America," with Juan Carlos Barahona, Eduardo Doryan and Felipe B. Larrain Economic Development in Central America, Vol. II: Structural Reform edited by Felipe B. Larrain. Harvard University Press, 2001.
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"The External-Debt Problem in Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, and the HIPC Initiative," with Gerardo Esquivel and Felipe B. Larrain in Economic Development in Central America, Vol. I: Growth and Internationalization, edited by Felipe B. Larrain. Harvard University Press, 2001.
(also HIID Development Discussion Paper no. 645, August 1998)
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"The Effects of the AIDS Epidemic on Economic Welfare in sub-Saharan Africa," with Dean T. Jamison and Jia Wang, Commission on Macroeconomics and Health Working Paper WG1: 13, December 2001.
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"The Strategic Significance of Global Inequality," in The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 187-198, Summer 2001.
"What's good for the poor is good for America," The Economist. July 12, 2001
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"A New Global Commitment to Disease Control in Africa," Nature Medicine, Vol. 7 No. 5, May 2001.
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"The Curse of Natural Resources," with Andrew Warner, European Economic Review, Vol. 45, May 2001.
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"Las Patentes y Los Pobres". Reforma. May 2, 2001.
"The Benefits of a Weaker Yen". Financial Times. April 18, 2001. CIDNEWS
"A Global Fund for the Fight Against AIDS". Washington Post. April 7, 2001.
"The Geography of Poverty and Wealth," with Andrew D. Mellinger and John L. Gallup. Scientific American. March 2001.
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"The Decade of Development: Goal Setting and Policy Changes in India" with Nirupam Bajpai, CID Working Paper No. 62, February 2001.
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"Institutions and Geography: Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson," with John W. McArthur, NBER Working Paper 8114, February 2001.
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"The Economic Burden of Malaria," with John Luke Gallup, The Supplement to The American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Vol. 64, No. 1, 2, pp. 85-96, January/February 2001
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(previously "The Economic Burden of Malaria" with John Luke Gallup, CID Working Paper No. 52, July 2000 [PDF], previously "The Economic Burden of Malaria," with John Gallup, in Harvard International Review,Winter 1998/1999, pp. 56-61, and previously "The Economic Burden of Malaria," with John Luke Gallup, mimeo, October 1998 [PDF]) .
"Tropical Underdevelopment," NBER Working Paper 8119. February 2001.
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(based on speech prepared for Economic History Association Annual Meeting, September 2000 and CID Working Paper No. 57, December 2000)
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"To Climb a Steep Gradient Firmly," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, Calcutta, and the Net edition, February 27, 2001.
"Meeting Economic Growth Agenda" with Nirupam Bajpai. Hindu Business Line. February 20, 2001. CIDNEWS
"Budget and the Development Decade" with Nirupam Bajpai. Hindu Business Journal. February 19, 2001. CIDNEWS
"Miles to Go" with Nirupam Bajpai. India Today. February 19, 2001. CIDNEWS
"Fighting AIDS is a Bargain and a Moral One at That". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. February 14, 2001.
"The 2001-02 Budget" with Nirupam Bajpai. The Hindu. February 13, 2001.
"Unproductive Spending," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, February 13, 2001.
"AIDS, Drugs, and Africa". Financial Times. February 12, 2001. CIDNEWS
"The Best Possible Investment in Africa". New York Times. February 10, 2001. CIDNEWS
"Face to Face with Reform", with Nirupam Bajpai. The Telegraph (India). February 2, 2001.CIDNEWS
Subtract the Divide; with Geoffrey Kirkman. World Link. January 25, 2001. CIDNEWS
"Defining and Refining International Donor Support for Combating the AIDS Pandemic" with Amir Attaran, The Lancet, Vol. 357, pp. 57-61, January 6, 2001.
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2000
"Globalisation, State Intervention and the Impact on Living Standards," in Malaysian Journal of Economics Studies, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1 & 2, June/December 2000.
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"Is the Environmental Kuznets Curve Driven by Structural Change? What Extended Time Series May Imply for Developing Countries" with Theo Panayotou and Alix Peterson. CAER II No. 80, 2000.
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"Notes on a New Sociology of Economic Development" in Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington (eds), New York: Basic Books, 2000.
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"Globalization and Patterns of Economic Development," Review of World Economics, Vol. 136, No. 4, Kiel Institute of World Economics, 2000.
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“Understanding China’s Economic Performance” with Wing Thye Woo, The Journal of Policy Reform, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2000; section on state enterprise sector reprinted as “The State Sector Under Reform” in Ross Garnaut and Yiping Huang (eds.), Growth Without Miracles: Readings on the Chinese Economy in the Era of Reform, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
(previously "Understanding China's Economic Performance," with Wing Thye Woo, HIID Development Discussion Paper #575, December 1996. [PDF]) .
The Global Competitiveness Report 2000, (co-editor) World Economic Forum, Oxford University Press, New York, 2000.
- "Executive Summary: Current Competitiveness and Growth Competitiveness" with Michael Porter and Andrew Warner.
- "Globalization and International Competitiveness: Some Broad Lessons of the Past Decade" with Andrew Warner.
The Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for a Resilient Asia, (co-editor), MIT Press, 2000.
- "A Reform Agenda for a Resilient Asia," (with Wing Thye Woo)
- "Understanding the Asian Financial Crisis," (with Wing Thye Woo)
"Economic Reforms and Constitutional Transition," (with Wing Thye Woo and Xiaokai Yang) in Tran Van Hoa (ed.), Economic Crisis Management - Policy, Practice, Outcomes and Prospects, pp. 28-85, Edward Elgar 2000.
"The Debate on Understanding China's Economic Growth," (with Wing Thye Woo) in Eric Maskin and Andras Simonovits (eds.), Planning, Shortage, and Transformation: Essays in Honor of Janos Kornai, MIT, 2000.
"Notes on a New Sociology of Economic Development" in Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington (eds). New York: Basic Books, 2000.
"Climate, Coastal Proximity, and Development," with Andrew Mellinger and John Gallup in Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, and Meric S. Gertler, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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(Previously "Climate, Water Navigability, and Economic Development," with Andrew Mellinger and John Gallup, CID Working Paper No. 24, September 1999. [PDF])
"Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth," with Andrew Warner, Leading Issues in Economic Development, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Reprinted in Spanish as "Recursos Naturales y Desarollo Economico" in Mineria y Desarollo, Gustavo Lagos (ed.), Foro en Economia de Minerales, Vol. 3, 2005.
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"The Onset of the East Asian Financial Crisis," with Steven Radelet, National Bureau of Economic Research volume Asian Crisis and International Solutions, Chapter 20, 1998.
Reprinted in Currency Crises, Paul Krugman (ed.) National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000.
"Economic Reforms and Constitutional Transition," (with Wing Thye Woo and Xiaokai Yang), Annals of Economics and Finance, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 435-491, November 2000; reprinted in Tran Van Hoa (ed.), Economic Crisis Management - Policy, Practice, Outcomes and Prospects as Chapter 4, pp. 28-85, Edward Elgar, 2002.
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"No Reform In A Hurry," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, November 20, 2000.
"Reforms and Growth Prospects," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, November 14, 2000.
"The Charade of Debt Sustainability," Financial Times, Sept. 26, 2000
"Agriculture, Climate, and Technology: Why are the Tropics Falling Behind?" with John Luke Gallup, American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. 82, pp. 731-777, August 2000.
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"A New Map of the World," in Imagining Tomorrow: Rethinking the Global Challenge, edited by Kamalesh Sharma. Collected and compiled on the occasion of the UN Millenium Assembly, August 2000. Reprinted from The Economist, June 24, 2000.
"A New Map of the World," in Imagining Tomorrow: Rethinking the Global Challenge, edited by Kamalesh Sharma. Collected and compiled on the occasion of the UN Millenium Assembly. August 2000. Reprinted from The Economist, June 24, 2000.
India in the Era of Economic Reforms (Forward), with Nirupam Bajpai and Ashutosh Varshney, Oxford University Press, paperback edition, July 2000.
"Great Barrier Reefs," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, July 17, 2000.
"Foreign Helping Hand," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, July 4, 2000.
"A New Map of the World," The Economist, June 24 2000. (Reprinted in Imagining Tomorrow: Rethinking the Global Challenge. K. Sharma, ed. UN Millenium Assembly, August 2000).
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"Give Poor Nigeria a Chance" Financial Times, June 15, 2000. CIDNEWS
"Glorifying Mediocrity" The International Economy. May/June 2000, p14.
"Zones and Phones," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, May 22, 2000.
"Development and Goal Setting II," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, May 11, 2000.
"Development and Goal Setting I," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, May 10, 2000.
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"Decade of Development," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, May 8, 2000.
"Economic Reforms and Constitutional Transition" with Wing Thye Woo and Xiaokai Yang. CID Working Paper No. 42, April 2000. [Download paper as PDF]
"India's Decade of Development," in Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai with Nirupam Bajpai, Vol. XXXV, No. 16, April 2000.
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"Foreign Direct Investment in India: Issues and Problems" with Nirupam Bajpai. HIID Development Discussion Paper No. 759, March 2000.
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"A Blueprint for IMF Reform," with Allan Meltzer, The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2000, The Asian Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2000, and The Wall Street Journal Europe, March 9, 2000.
"Testimony to the Senate Committee on banking, Housing and Urban Affairs," March 9, 2000
"Patterns and Determinants of Economic Reform in Transition Economies: 1990-1998," with Clifford Zinnes and Yair Eilat. HIID CAER II Discussion Paper no. 61. February 2000.
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"Some Export Advice," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, February 28, 2000.
"Lowering Revenue Deficit, Subsidies Hold Key to Fiscal Consolidation," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Rediff Pre-Budget Special, February 24, 2000.
"Time for Bold Action," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, February 22 and 23, 2000.
"Budget: Time to Take Harsh Measures," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Economic Times, Invited op-ed, February 21, 2000.
"Long-term Perspectives on Economic Development in the Middle East," January 2000.
"A Structural Analysis of Chile's Long-Term Growth: History, Prospects, and Policy Implications," with Felipe B. Larrain and Andrew Warner. Prepared for the Government of Chile as part of the Project "Development Strategies in the Context of Natural Resource Abundance and Global Integration: the Case of Chile," January 2000.
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"Reforms in the States," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, January 24 - 26, 2000.
"Fish Out of Water," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, February 18, 2000.
"Power to Bind and Loose," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, January 3, 2000.
1999
"Fiscal Policy in India's Economic Reforms," with Nirupam Bajpai in India in the Era of Economic Reforms. Edited with Ashutosh Varshney and Nirupam Bajpai, Oxford University Press 1999.
The Global Competitiveness Report 1999, (co-editor) World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland 1999.
- "The Year in Review," with Andrew Warner
The Asia Competitiveness Report 1999, (co-editor) World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland 1999.
- "A Plan for Action," with Wing Thye Woo
- "The Asian Financial Crisis: what happened, and what is to be done," with Wing Thye Woo; republished in Spanish as "Reflexiones sobre la crisis asiatica," Cuadernos del CERI No. 7, Centro Espa-ol de Relaciones Internacionales, Madrid, September 1999.
Role of Law and Legal Institutions in Asian Economic Development 1960-1995, senior advisor with Hal S. Scott to Katharina Pistor and Philip A. Wellons for Asian Development Bank.
"Fiscal Policy in India's Economic Reforms," with Nirupam Bajpai in India in the Era of Economic Reforms. Edited with Ashutosh Varshney and Nirupam Bajpai, Oxford University Press 1999.
"The Case for Regional Public Goods," with Lisa Cook, in Global Public Goods--International Cooperation in the 21st Century, Kaul, Grunberg, and Stern (eds.), a UN publication, Oxford University Press: New York, 1999.
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"Resource Endowments and the Real Exchange Rate: A Comparison of Latin America and East Asia," in Takatoshi Ito and Anne Krueger (eds) Changes in Exchange Rates in Rapidly Developing Countries: Theory, Practice, and Policy Issues. NBER-EASE Vol. 7. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
"Economic Consequences of Health Status: A Review of the Evidence" with Amar A. Hamoudi. CID Working Paper No. 30, December 1999.
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"State-level Reforms in India," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Times of India, December 27, 1999.
"First Among States," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 27, 1999.
"Why Dollarization is More Straitjacket than Salvation," with Felipe Larrain, in Foreign Policy, No. 116, Fall 1999.
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"Leading the Pack," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 20, 1999.
"Transfer ticket," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 13, 1999.
"In a State of Deficit," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 6, 1999.
"Developing Countries and the Control of Climate Change: A Theoretical Perspective and Policy Implications," with Theodore Panayotou and Alix Peterson. HIID CAER II Discussion Paper No. 44, November 1999.
"The Progress of Policy Reform and Variation in Performance at the Sub-national level in India," with Nirupam Bajpai. HIID Development Discussion Paper No. 730, November 1999.
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"The IMF's New Leader," Financial Times, November 18, 1999.
"Life After Communism," Wall Street Journal, November 17, 1999
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"The State of State Government Finances in India," with Nirupam Bajpai. HIID Discussion Paper No. 719, September 1999.
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"Reflexiones sobre la crisis asiatica," with Wing Thye Woo in Internacionales Cuadernos del Ceri del Centro Espanol de Relaciones, No. 7, September 1999.
"Cracking the Shell Game: Implementing Debt Relief for the HIPC's," in ICSW Social Development Review, September 1999.
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"Why Do Resource-Abundant Economies Grow More Slowly?," with Francisco Rodriguez in Journal for Economic Growth, 4, pp. 277- 303, September 1999.
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(previously "Natural Resources and Economic Growth: A Quantitative Exploration," with Francisco Rodriguez, mimeo, HIID, Spring 1999 [PDF]).
"Helping the World's Poorest" Economist, August 1999.
"Geography and Economic Development," with John Luke Gallup and with Andrew Mellinger, International Regional Science Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 179-232, August 1999.
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(previously in Pleskovic, Boris and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds., Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1998 (April), The World Bank: Washington, DC [PDF] and in Harvard International Review, Winter 1998/1999).
"Implementing Debt Relief for the HIPCs" with Kwesi Botchwey, Maciej Cuchra, and Sara Sievers. CID, August 1999. CC
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"Developing Countries and the Control of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence" with Theo Panayotou and Alix Peterson, CAER II Discussion Paper No. 45, August 1999. CC
"Developing Countries and the Control of Climate Change: A Theoretical Perspective and Policy Implications," with Theo Panayotou and Alix Peterson, prepared for UNAID/CAER II, CAER II Discussion Paper No. 44, August 1999.
Forward: India in the Era of Economic Reforms (including Introduction). Edited with Nirupam Bajpai and Ashutosh Varshney, Oxford University Press, July 1999. Paperback edition, July 2000.
"Brazil Fever," in The Milken Institute Review, Second Quarter, 1999.
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"The International Lender of Last Resort: What are the Alternatives?" Rethinking the International Monetary System Conference Proceedings, Series No. 43, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, June 1999.
"The Big Push, Natural Resource Booms and Growth," with Andrew Warner, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 59, Issue 1, pp. 43-76, June 1999.
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"The International Lender of Last Resort: What are the Alternatives?" Rethinking the International Monetary System. Conference Proceedings Series No. 43. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, June 1999.
"The Case for a Vaccine Purchase Fund," with Michael Kremer and Amar Hamoudi, CID mimeo, June 1999.
"A Millennial Gift to Developing Nations," New York Times, June 6, 1999.
"Investing in the World Health Organization," with Barry Bloom, David Bloom, and Joel Cohen, in Science, Vol. 284, 7 May 1999.
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"A Cure for Indifference ," with Michael Kremer, Financial Times, May 5, 1999.
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"The Manufactured Exports, Export Platforms, and Economic Growth: Insights from Asia for Egypt," with Steven Radelet and Lisa Cook, HIID May 1999.
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"Pattern of Trade and Economic Development in the Model of Monopolistic Competition," with X. Yang and D. Zhang, CID Working Paper No. 14, April 1999.
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"An Inframarginal Analysis of the Heckscher-Olin Model with Transaction Costs and Technological Comparative Advantage," with W.L. Cheng and X. Yang, CID Working Paper No. 9, April 1999.
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"Trade Pattern and Economic Development when Endogenous and Exogenous Comparative Advantages Coexist," with X. Yang and D. Zhang, CID Working Paper No. 3, April 1999.
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"Gradual Spread of Market-Led Industrialization," with X. Yang, CID Working Paper No. 11, April 1999.
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"The Changing Global Distribution of Malaria: A Review," with Amar Hamoudi, CID Working Paper No. 2, March 1999.
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"Twentieth-Century Political Economy: A Brief History of Global Capitalism," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 115, No. 4, Winter 1999.
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"India - Fiscal Restraint is the Need of the Hour," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Economic Times, (ET Exclusive: Harvard Pundits Reset the Agenda) February 11, 1999.
"A New Social Contract Needed for Rural India," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Economic Times, (ET Exclusive: Harvard Pundits Reset the Agenda) February 10, 1999.
"India's Failure on the Policy Front," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Economic Times, (ET Exclusive: Harvard Pundits Reset the Agenda) February 9, 1999.
"Strengthening India's Strategy," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Economic Times, (ET Exclusive: Harvard Pundits Reset the Agenda) February 8, 1999.
(previously working paper "Strengthening India's Strategy for Economic Growth," with Nirupam Bajpai, HIID Development Discussion Paper no. 641, July 1998.) [Download paper as PDF file]
"Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for Egypt", Conference- Growth Beyond Stabilization: Prospects for Egypt, Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, February 1999.
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"The Asian Financial Crisis: What Happened and What is to be Done," with Wing Thye Woo, Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 253, January 1999.
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"Self-inflicted Wounds," Financial Times, January 22, 1999
1998
"The External-Debt Problem in Central America" with Gerardo Esquivel and Felipe B. Larrain, Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge, MA., pp. 251-296. 1998.
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"Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa," with David Bloom, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 1998.
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"The East Asian Financial Crisis: Diagnosis, Remedies, Prospects," with Steve Radelet, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 1998.
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"Geography and Economic Development: Some Empirical Findings," presented at 1998 AEA meetings in Chicago, published in Proceedings volume.
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"Shipping Costs, Manufactured Exports, and Economic Growth" with Steven Radelet, presented at 1998 AEA meetings in Chicago, published in Proceedings volume.
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The Africa Competitiveness Report 1998, (co-editor) World Economic Forum, Geneva. Switzerland 1998.
- "Executive Summary" with Sara E. Sievers
- "Growth in Africa" with Sara E. Sievers
- "FDI in Africa" with Sara E. Sievers
The Global Competitiveness Report 1998, (co-editor) World Economic Forum, Geneva Switzerland 1998.
- "Executive Summary" with Andrew Warner
- "The Year in Review"
"External Debt, Structural Adjustment and Economic Growth," in International Monetary and Financial Issues for the 1990's, Volume IX. Conference volume for United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 1998.
"Money Order," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 21, 1998.
"India - Country Roads," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 14, 1998.
"Sales Across the Seas," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 7, 1998.
"Competition Success," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, December 2, 1998.
"Creditor Panics: Causes and Remedies," Cato Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, Winter 1999. Also in Research Notes in Economics and Statistics for Deutsche Bank Research, November 1998.
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"The Real Causes of Famine: A Nobel laureate blames authoritarian rulers," Time, October 26, 1998.
"Globalization and the Rule of Law," Lecture at the Yale Law School, October 15, 1998.
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"Next Stop: Brazil," with Steven Radelet, New York Times, October 14, 1998.
"Es Wird Weh Tun," interview with Der Spiegel, October 5, 1998
"Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa," with David E. Bloom, presented at the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, September 1998.
"Global Capitalism: Making it Work," Economist, September 12, 1998.
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"Strategy for Growth," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu, September 9-11, 1998.
"Strengthening India's Strategy for Economic Growth," in Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXIII, No. 29 & 30, Mumbai, July 18, 1998, with Nirupam Bajpai.
(previously working paper "Strengthening India's Strategy for Economic Growth," with Nirupam Bajpai, HIID Development Discussion Paper no. 641, July 1998.) [Download paper as PDF file]
"Toward a New Strategy for Asian Recovery," Singapore Straits-Times, July 26, 1998.
"Why Economies Grow," paper presented at the XII International Conference of Private Business Associations in Stockholm, June 1998. Reprinted in Birgitta Swedenborg & Hans Tson Soderstrom (eds) Creating an Environment for Growth. Stockholm: SNS Forlag, 1999. pp. 17-31.
"International Economics: Unlocking the Mysteries of Globalization," Foreign Policy, Spring 1998.
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"The IMF and the Asian Flu," The American Prospect, March/April 1998
"The IMF and the Asian Flu," The American Prospect, No. 37, March-April 1998.
"Onset of the East Asian Financial Crisis," with Steven Radelet, presented at NBER Currency Crisis Conference and to US Agency for International Development, January 1998.
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1997
"India's Economic Reforms: Some Lessons from East Asia," with Nirupam Bajpai, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 6, pp. 135-164, 1997.
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"Asia's Reemergence," with Steven Radelet, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 76, No. 6, November/December 1997.
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"India's Economic Reforms: The Steps Ahead," with Nirupam Bajpai, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1997.
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"Fundamental Sources of Long Run Growth," with Andrew Warner, presented at 1997 AEA meetings in New Orleans, published in Proceedings volume.
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"Sources of Slow Growth in African Economies," with Andrew Warner, Journal of African Economies, vol. 6 no. 3, 1997.
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The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia, edited with Katharina Pistor, The John M. Olin Critical Issues Series, Westview Press, 1997.
Emerging Asia: Changes and Challenges, academic coordinator with David Bloom, Asian Development Bank, 1997.
Economies in Transition, co-editor with Wing Thye Woo and Stephen Parker, MIT Press, 1997.
"Globalization is the Driving Force for Growth in the U.S.," in The Rising Tide: The Leading Minds of Business and Economics Chart a Course Toward Higher Growth and Prosperity, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1997.
"The IMF: A Power unto Itself," Financial Times, December 11, 1997
"International Monetary Failure? The IMF's prescriptions might actually make Asia's financial turmoil worse," Time, December 8, 1997.
"The Wrong Medicine for Asia," The New York Times, November 3, 1997
"POINT: Jeffrey Sachs says Asia's miracle is still alive," Time, September 29, 1997.
"Ukraine's Painful Economic Transition," ACE: Analysis of Current Events, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 1997.
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"Growing Hot and Cold," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, August 4, 1997.
"Recipe for Success," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, July 7, 1997.
"Exchange rate tectonics," Worldlink, May/June 1997.
"Model that Couldn't," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, June 23, 1997.
"The Limits of Convergence - Nature, nurture and growth," Economist, June 14, 1997.
"The Geography of Global Capitalism," mimeo, HIID, May 1997.
"Help Congo Now," with Robert Rotberg, New York Times, May 29, 1997.
"Economic Reforms in China and India: Selected Issues in Industrial Policy," with Nirupam Bajpai and Tianlun Jian, HIID Development Discussion Paper No. 580, April 1997.
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"The Need for Tax Reform," with Nirupam Bajpai, The Rediff Special, March 5, 1997.
"Take a Fresh Look at Foreign Aid," International Herald Tribune, February 1997.
"Down to Brass Tax" with Nirupam Bajpai, The Telegraph, February 28, 1997.
"When Foreign Aid Makes a Difference," The New York Times, February 3, 1997.
"Zimbabwe's Growth Prospects: the Steps Ahead," mimeo, HIID, January 1997.
1996
"On the tigers' trail, - Sachs on Competitiveness," Worldlink, November/December 1996.
"Chinese Economic Growth: Explanations and the Tasks Ahead," with Wing Thye Woo, in Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, China's Economic Future: Challenges to U.S. Policy, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1996.
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"Emerging Markets and Foreign Aid," in Emerging Markets and International Development: Options for U.S. Foreign Policy, National Planning Association Report, No. 282, 1996
"Trends in Regional Inequality in China," with Tianlun Jian and Andrew Warner, NBER Working Paper Series no. 5412, January 1996, and China Economic Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1996.
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"Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: The Lessons from 1995," with Andres Velasco and Aaron Tornell, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 1996.
"Lessons from Taiwan for Post-Communist Transition: Another Look," with Tianlun Jian, Business and the Contemporary World, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1996.
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"Achieving Rapid Growth: The Road Ahead for Egypt," Distinguished Lecture Series 3, published by The Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, 1996. Click here to order this piece from ECES.
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"Emerging Markets and Foreign Aid," in Emerging Markets and International Development: Options for U.S. Foreign Policy, Walter Surrey Memorial Series, National Planning Association, 1996.
"Understanding China's Economic Performance," with Wing Thye Woo, HIID Development Discussion Paper #575, December 1996.
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"How to Catch Up with the Industrial World - Achieving Rapid Growth in Europe's Transition Economies," with Andrew Warner, in Transition, Vol. 7, No. 9-10, September-October 1996, World Bank.
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(This article is based on the authors' paper "Achieving Rapid Growth in the Transition Economies of Central Europe," HIID Discussion Paper no. 544, July 1996)
"The tankers are turning - Sachs on Competitiveness," Worldlink, September/October 1996
"Achieving Rapid Growth in the Transition Economies of Central Europe," with Andrew Warner, HIID Development Discussion Paper #544, July 1996.
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"Alternative Approaches to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets," Revista de Economia Politica, Vol. 16, No. 2, April-June 1996.
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"Growth in Africa: It can be done," Economist, June 29-15, 1996.
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"Resource Endowments and the Real Exchange Rate: A Comparison of Latin America and East Asia," presented at conference in Hong Kong, June 19, 1996, as part of Seventh Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics, forthcoming in conference volume and as NBER Discussion Paper.
"Globalization and the U.S. Labor Market," American Economic Review, May 1996.
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"Economic Transition and the Exchange-Rate Regime," American Economic Review, May 1996.
"The Transition at Mid Decade," American Economic Review, May 1996.
"Trends in Inter-State Inequalities of Income in India," with Nirupam Bajpai, HIID Development Discussion Paper #528, May 1996.
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"Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: The Lessons from 1995," with Andres Velasco and Aaron Tornell, NBER Working Paper Series no. 5576, May 1996.
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"It Could Have Been So Much Better: Reflections on Russian Economic Reform," The Moscow Times Russia Review, vol. 3, no. 90, May 6, 1996.
"Lessons from Asia," Central European Economic Review, vol 4, no. 3, April 1996.
"The Collapse of the Mexican Peso: What Have We Learned?," with Andres Velasco and Aaron Tornell, Economic Policy, No. 22, April 1996.
"China's Transition Experience," with Wing Thye Woo, Transition: The Newsletter About Reforming Economies, Vol. 7, No. 3-4, March-April 1996, World Bank Transition Economics Division.
"EU Membership for Central Europe: Commitments, Speed and Conditionality," with Alain de Crombrugghe and Zanny Minton-Beddoes, HIID Development Discussion Paper #523, February 1996.
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"International Trade and Wage Inequality in the United States: Some New Results," with Howard J. Shatz, HIID Development Discussion Paper #524, February 1996.
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"Brazilian Inflation and the 'Plano Real'," with Alvaro Zini, Revista de Economia Politica, Vol. 15, No. 2(58), April-June 1995, and The World Economy, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 1996.
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1995
"Old Myths About Poland's Reforms Die Hard," Transition: The Newsletter About Reforming Economies, Vol. 6, No. 11-12, November-December 1995, pp. 11-12, World Bank Transition Economics Division.
"Why Russia Failed to Stabilize," in Russian Economic Reform at Risk, edited by Anders Aslund, Pinter:London, 1995.
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"Comment on Rebelo and Vegh 'Real Effects of Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization: An Analysis of Competing Theories'", in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1995, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
"Why Russia Has Failed to Stabilize," in Russian Economic Reform at Risk, edited by Anders Aslund, Pinter: London, 1995.
"Shock Therapy in Poland: Perspectives of Five Years," The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Vol. 16, University of Utah, 1995.
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"Do We Need an International Lender of Last Resort?" presented as Frank D. Graham Lecture at Princeton, 1995.
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"Russia's Struggle with Stabilization: Conceptual Issues and Evidence," in Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference in Development Economics 1994, The World Bank, 1995.
"Keep the Baby in the Bath Water," Worldlink, Sept./Oct. 1995.
"Wanted: Some Brand New Thinking," Millennium, October 1995.
"Natural Resources Abundance and Economic Growth," with Andrew Warner, HIID Development Discussion Paper #517a, October 1995.
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"A common-sense approach will put SA's economic miracle within reach," The Business Times, Sunday, Oct. 1, 1995 (South Africa).
"The Age of Global Capitalism," Foreign Policy, No. 98, Spring 1995.
"Consolidating Capitalism," Foreign Policy , No. 98, pp. 50-64, Spring 1995.
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"The Real Story," with Aaron Tornell and Andres Velasco, International Economy, March/April 1995.
"Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration," with Andrew Warner, presented at Brookings Panel on April 7, 1995. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 1995.
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"Post-Communist Parties and the Politics of Entitlements," Transition, Vol. 6, No. 3, March 1995.
"Lessons from Mexico," with Aaron Tornell and Andres Velasco, mimeo Harvard University, March 1995.
"Why did we snub Russia and air Mexico?", The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 1995.
"Crash of Nations," The New Republic, February 6, 1995.
"Interpreting the Mexican Peso Crisis," January 1995, mimeo.
"Economies in Transition: Some Aspects of Environmental Policy," in Economic Instruments for Sustainable Development. Bedich Moldan (ed.), Workshop Proceeding, January 12-14, 1995, Prhonice, Czech Republic, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic.
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"Reforms in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Light of the East Asian Experiences," presented at NBER-TCER- CEPR Trilateral Conference on Transition from Socialist Economies, Tokyo, Janauary 6-7, 1995. Published in Journal of the Japanese and International Economies.
1994
"Trade and Jobs in U.S. Manufacturing," with Howard Shatz, in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 1994, and in Economic Policy, ed. Paul Whiteley, Gloucester, England: Elgar Publishing.
Comment on "Economic Recovery, Growth and Policies: 'Gradualism' in the Japanese Context" by Juro Teranishi, in Economic Policy 19 (Supplement), December 1994.
"Understanding 'Shock Therapy'," Social Market Foundation Occasional Paper No. 7, London, 1994.
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Russia and the Market Economy, (in Russian) BBC/MPM Ltd., London, 1994.
Transition in Eastern Europe, co-edited with K. Froot and O. Blanchard, NBER Conference Volumes, University of Chicago Press, 1994.
- Volume 1: Country Studies
- Volume 2: Restructuring
"Life in the Economic Emergency Room," in The Political Economy of Policy Reform, John Williamson (ed.), Institute for International Economics, January 1994.
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"Increased IMF Intervention Would Strengthen the Republics' Economies," in The Breakup of the Soviet Union: Opposing Viewpoints, David Bender & Bruno Leone, Series Editors, Opposing Viewpoints Series, Greenhaven Press: San Diego, 1994.
"Political Independence and Economic Reform in Slovenia," with Boris Pleskovic, in The Transition in Eastern Europe: Volume 1, (edited by Sachs, Froot, and Blanchard), NBER Conference Volume, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 1994.
"Prospects for Monetary Stabilization in Russia," Economic Transformation in Russia, Anders Aslund (ed.), 1994.
"Understanding the Reform Experiences of China, Eastern Europe and Russia," with Wing Thye Woo, in Chyng Lee and Helmut Reisen (ed.), From Reform to Growth: China and Other Countries in Transition, OECD, Paris, 1994; published in German as "Zum Verstandnis der Reformerfahrungen in China, Osteeuropa und Rubland" in Hansjorg Herr and Kurt Hubner (ed.) Der lange Marsch in die Marktwirtschaft: Entwicklungen und Erfahrungen in der VR China und Osteuropa, Fachhochschule fur Wirtschaft Berlin, 1999.
"Economic Convergence and Economic Policies," with Andrew Warner, presented at conference in Prague, December 1994, as part of Asia Foundation project on Economies in Transition. Development Discussion Paper #502.
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"The Prospects for Reform in Russia," Canadian Business Review, Autumn 1994.
"Russia's Economic Prospects," in Bulletin: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. XLVIII, No. 3, December 1994.
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"A shocking answer to inflation," Independent (London), October 11, 1993.
"Beyond Bretton Woods: A new blueprint," The Economist, October 1, 1994.
"India's Unfinished Reform Agenda," presented at ICRIER, New Delhi, Aug. 23, 1994. Published in Distinguished Author Seminar Series on "Structural Adjustment and Policy Reforms: Perspectives from International Experiences."
"The IMF and Economies in Crisis," presented at London School of Economics, July 1994, forthcoming in LSE publication.
"What the IMF should advise Ukraine," Financial Times, July 29, 1994.
"IMF, Reform Thyself," Wall Street Journal, July 21, 1994
"Estonia has set good currency example," Financial Times, July 15, 1994.
"Inflation, Debt, and Liquidity," with Kevin McDonald, Harvard Business Review, May-June 1994.
"Toward Glasnost in the IMF," in Challenge, May/June 1994.
"Buying Time for Democracy," European Brief, April/May 1994.
"Buying Time for Democracy," in European Brief, Vol. 1, No. 5, April/May 1994.
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"Russia's Struggle with Stabilization: Conceptual Issues and Evidence," presented at Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, April 28, 1994, Washington, DC. Published in conference volume.
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"Monetary Institutions and Credible Stabilizations: A Comparison of Experiences in the Baltics," with Ardo Hansson, presented at conference at Univ. of Chicago Law School, April 22-23, 1994.
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Testimony to the Subcomittee on International Development, Finance, Trade and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
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"Testimony to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs," April 19, 1994.
"Structural Factors in the Economic Reforms of China, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union", with Wing Thye Woo, Economic Policy, 18, April 1994.
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"Russia: IMF gives too little, too late," Financial Times, March 31, 1994
Testimony to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, February 5, 1994
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"Testimony to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs," February 5, 1994.
"Betrayal," The New Republic, January 31, 1994.
1993
"An Update on Reform in Eastern Europe and Russia," China Economic Review, Volume 4, Number 2. 1993.
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"Reply to Jan Adam," Economics of Planning 26, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.
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"Reussir la stabilization monetaire en 1993", in Economie Internationale, No. 54, 2 trimestre, 1993 (CEPII publication).
"Western Financial Assistance and Russia's Reforms," in Making Markets, S. Islam and M. Mandelbaum (eds.), New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993.
"The Russian Mass Privatization Program," with Bozidar Djelic, Privatisation Yearbook 1993, Rodney Lord (ed.), London: Privatisation International, 1993.
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"The Economic Transformation of Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland," in Stabilization and Privatization in Poland, K. Poznanski (ed.), (International Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 29), Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.
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Poland's Jump to the Market Economy, MIT Press, 1993.
Introduction to Paper Tigers and Minotaurs: The Politics of Venezuela's Economic Reforms, by Moises Naim, A Carnegie Endowment Book, 1993.
"Comments on 'The Chinese and Eastern European Routes to Reform' by Alan Gelb, Gary Jefferson, and Inderjit Singh," in NBER Macroeconomics Annual Conference Volume, NBER 1993.
"Western Financial Assistance and Russia's Reforms," in Making Markets, S. Islam and M. Mandelbaum (eds.), New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993.
"The Russian Mass Privatization Program," with Bozidar Djelic, Privatization Yearbook 1993, Rodney Lord (ed.), London: Privatization International, 1993.
"The Economic Transformation of Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland," in Stabilization and Privatization in Poland, K. Poznanski (ed.), Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.
"International Linkages of the Korean Economy: Simulations with the Korean Global Model," with Jong-Wha Lee and Peter Boone, Seoul Journal of Economics, Vol. 6, No. 4, Winter 1993.
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"Open trade vital to former communists," The Kikkei Weekly, October 18, 1993.
"Bolivia: On the Road to Development," project report prepared for the Ministry of Exports and Competitiveness of the Government of Bolivia, September 1993.
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"Moscow's Monetary Meltdown," The New Republic, August 23 & 30, 1993.
"La Russie va s'en sortir," interview in Capital (France), No. 22, July 1993.
"Remove roadblock to Russian reforms," with Stanley Fischer, Financial Times, July 6, 1993.
"Prospects for Monetary Stabilization in Russia," presented at the Conference on the Economic Transformation in Russia, Stockholm, June 1993. In Economic Transformation in Russia, Anders Aslund (ed.), 1994. Introduction to Paper Tigers & Minotaurs: The Politics of Venezuela's Economic Reforms, by Moises Naim, A Carnegie Endowment Book, 1993.
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"Ethics and the Global Wave of Economic Reform," prepared for the Conference on Judaism and a Just Economy,Washington, DC, May 1993.
"Some Historical Perspectives on Chinese and Russian Economic Reforms," presented at conference in San Francisco on Transition of Centrally Planned Economies in Pacific Asia, published in conference volume.
"Hey, Pundits, What About Yeltsin?" New York Times, April 30, 1993.
"The Road to the Market," Washington Post, March 28, 1993.
"Russian Sachs Appeal," The International Economy, January/February 1993.
"Strengthening Western Support for Russia," in International Economic Insights, Volume IV Number I, January/February 1993.
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"Strengthening Economic Support for Russia," International Economic Insights, Vol. IV, No. 1, January/February 1993.
"Testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs," Feb. 24, 1993.
"Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee," Feb. 17, 1993.
1992
Interview in Comparative Economic and Social Systems, 4, 1992.
"Western Financial Assistance to Support Russia's Reforms," Keizai Seminar Special issue 1992.
Monthly articles for Yomiuri Shimbun, 1992-93.
"Prospects for Russia's Economic Reforms," with David Lipton, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 1992.
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"Privatization in Russia : Some Lessons from Eastern Europe," paper presented at ASSA meetings in New Orleans, January 1992, American Economic Review, Spring 1992. Also published in Soumitra Sharma (ed.), Development Policy (London: St. Martin's Press, Inc.), 1992.
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Macroeconomics in the Global Economy, with Felipe Larrain, Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.
"Privatization in Russia : Some Lessons from Eastern Europe," in Soumitra Sharma (ed.), Development Policy (London: St. Martin's Press, Inc.), 1992.
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"Transition from a Planned Economy to a Market Economy," in Social and Ethical Aspects of Economics: A Colloquium in the Vatican, 1992.
"The Grand Bargain," in The Post-Soviet Economy: Soviet and Western Perspectives, Anders Aslund (ed.), (London: Punter Publ.), 1992.
Interview in Politique Internationale, no. 57, Fall 1992.
"Home Alone 2," The New Republic, December 21, 1992.
"The Leadership Deficit," Time, Vol. 140, No. 19, November 9, 1992.
"Crowning the Estonian Kroon" with Ardo Hansson, in Transition, Volume 3, Number 9. October 1992.
"Russia on the Brink" with David Lipton, Financial Times, Oct. 16, 1992.
Interview in Prism, "The Russian Republic: Issues and Opportunities," Third Quarter 1992.
"Currency Reform in Slovenia: The Tolar Standing Tall" with Boris Pleskovic, in Transition, Volume 3, Number 8, September 1992.
"Russia on the Ropes," Washington Post, Sept. 27, 1992.
"Toward a Market-Based Monetary System", with David Lipton, Central Banking, Vol. III, No. 1, Summer 1992.
Interview in Kauppalehti Optio (Finland), September 10, 1992.
"Aftershocks: Reflecting on Two Years of 'Shock Therapy' in Poland," interview in Harvard International Review, Spring 1992.
"Privatization in Poland: An Interview with Jeffrey Sachs," interview in Suffolk Transnational Law Journal, Vol. XV, No. 2, Spring 1992.
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"Structural Adjustment and International Trade in Eastern Europe: the Case of Poland," with Andrew Berg, Economic Policy, Vol. 7, No. 14, pp. 117-173, April 1992.
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"Vaincre la Peur," in Politique Internationale, proceedings for Colloquium "Quelle Democratie Pour L'Europe?", April 4, 1992.
Testimony to the Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade, and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, April 1, 1992
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"Building a Market Economy in Poland," Scientific American, March 1992.
"Testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee--Subcommittee on European Affairs," in Asteion, a Suntory Foundation publication, Japan, Winter 1992.
"Helping Russia," The Economist, December 21, 1991-January 3, 1992.
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1991
"Soviet Reforms: Cold Turkey," World Link, No. 2/1991.
"Poland's Big Bang After One Year," Skandianaviska Enskilda Banken Quarterly Review, 1-2, 1991.
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"Spontaneous Privatization: A Comment," in Soviet Economy, Vol. 7, No. 4, October-December 1991.
"Dynamic Strategic Monetary Policies and Coordination in Interdependent Economies: Comment," with A. de Crombrugghe and N. Roubini, American Economic Review, December 1991.
"Poland and Eastern Europe: What is to be Done?" in Foreign Economics Liberalization, Andras Koves and Paul Marer (eds.), Westview Press, 1991.
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Peru's Path to Recovery: A Plan for Economic Stabilization and Growth, with Carlos Paredes, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1991. Spanish edition Estabilizacion y Crecimiento en el Peru, GRADE, 1991.
Global Linkages: Macroeconomic Interdependence and Cooperation in the World Economy, with Warwick McKibbin, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1991.
"Poland and Eastern Europe: What is to be Done?" in Foreign Economics Liberalization, Andras Koves and Paul Marer (eds.), Westview Press, 1991
"Crossing the Valley of Tears in East European Reform," Challenge, September October 1991.
"Accelerating Privatization in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland," WIDER Working Paper 92, September 1991. Also published in Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference in Development Economics 1991.
"Testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee," Sept. 24, 1991.
"Economic Assistance to the Soviet Union at the G-7 Summit," Nihon Keizai, July 1991.
"Poland's Big Bang: A First Report Card," The International Economy, January/February 1991.
"Sachs on Poland," The Economist, January 19, 1991.
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1990
"Privatization in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland," with David Lipton and Lawrence H. Summers, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1990:2, and in Reforming Central and Eastern European Economies, V. Corbo, F. Coricelli, and J. Bossak (eds.), A World Bank Symposium. 1991.
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"Creating a Market Economy in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland," with David Lipton, Stanley Fischer and Janos Kornai, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 1990.
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Editor of four volume NBER Series on Developing Country Debt and the World Economy, University of Chicago Press 1989/90
- Summary Volume: Developing Country Debt and the World Economy
- Volume 1: Developing Country Debt and Economic Performance--The International Financial System
- Volume 2: Developing Country Debt and Economic Performance--Country Studies: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico
- Volume 3: Developing Country Debt and Economic Performance--Country Studies: Indonesia, Korea, Philippines, Turkey (with Susan Collins)
"Poland's Economic Reform," with David Lipton, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 69, No. 3. Summer 1990.
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"Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee," May 16, 1990.
"A Strategy for Efficient Debt Reduction," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 1990. Reprinted in International Economics and International Economic Policy: A Reader, Philip King (ed.), McGraw-Hill, Inc.:New York, 1995.
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"Testimony to the House Banking Committee," March 1, 1990.
"Interview: 'Charting Poland's Economic Rebirth'," in Challenge, January February 1990.
"Debt Reduction: the Basis and Shape of a New Strategy," with Josef Kneer, in Intereconomics, January/February 1990.
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"Testimony to the House Appropriations Committee," February 27, 1990.
U.S. Policy Towards Economic Reform in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A Progressive Policy Institute Lecture, 20 February 1990
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"Testimony to the House Budget Committee," February 8, 1990.
"Jeffrey Sachs: My Plan for Poland," in The International Economy, December 1989/January 1990, Volune III, Number 6.
"Eastern Europe's Economies - What is to be done?" in The Economist, January 13, 1990.
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1989
"Efficient Debt Reduction," in Dealing with the Debt Crisis, Ishrat Husain and Ishac Diwan (eds.), A World Bank Syposium, Washington, DC., 1989.
"The Debt Overhang of Developing Countries," in G. Calvo et al. (eds.)Debt Stabilization & Development - Essays in Memory of Carlos Diaz- Alejandro, WIDER/UNU (Helsinki) and Basil Blackwell Inc., 1989.
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"Bolivia's Economic Crisis," with Juan Antonio Morales, in J. Sachs (ed.), Foreign Debt and Economic Performance, National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 1989; and Developing Country Debt and Economic Performance: Country Studies--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Vol 2, University of Chicago, 1990. (previously NBER Working Paper 2620)
"Implications of Policy Rules for the World Economy," with W. McKibbin, in Macroeconomic Policies in an Interdependent World, R. Bryant et al. (eds.), Brookings Centre for Economic Policy Research and IMF, 1989.
"O Futuro da Crise das Dividas na America Latina," in Nova Era da Economia Mundial, Norman Gall et al., Instituto Fernand Braudel de Economia Mundial, Pioneira: Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1989.
"Efficient Debt Reduction," in Dealing with the Debt Crisis, Ishrat Husain and Ishac Diwan (eds.), A World Bank Symposium, Washington, DC, 1989.
"Strengthening IMF Programs in Highly Indebted Countries," in The International Monetary Fund in a Multipolar World: Pulling Together, Catherine Gwin, Richard E. Feinberg and contributors, U.S.-Third World Policy Perspectives, No. 13, Overseas Development Council, Tranaction Books, New Brunswick (USA) and Oxford (UK), 1989.
"Default and Renegotiation of Latin American Foreign Bonds in the Interwar Period," with Erika Jorgensen, in B. Eichengreen and P. Lindert (eds.), A Long Run Perspective on the Debt Crisis, 1989. . Also NBER Working Paper No. 2636, June 1988.
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"Correcting Global Imbalances: A Simulation Approach," with W. McKibbin and N. Roubini, in Robert M. Stern (ed.), U.S.-Canadian Trade and Investment Relations with Japan, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 1989.
"The Debt Overhang of Developing Countries," in G. Calvo et al (eds.) Debt Stabilization & Development--Essays in Memory of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro. WIDER/UNU (Helsinki) and Basil Blackwell Inc., 1989.
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"Is Tokyo Worth Four Trillion Dollars? An Explanation for High Japanese Land Prices," with Peter Boone, mimeo, October 1989.
"Making the Brady Plan Work," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 68, No. 3, Summer 1989.
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"Sachs-McKibbin Global Model," with Warwick McKibbin, Brookings Discussion Paper #78, August 1989.
"Lack of Solidarity," The New Republic, August 7 & 14, 1989.
"New Approaches to the Latin American Debt Crisis," Princeton Studies in International Finance, No. 174, July 1989, Princeton, NJ. Spanish translation in E1 Trimestre Economico, Vol. LVI (1), No. 221, Mexico, March 1989.
"Federal Fiscal Policy and Optimum Currency Areas," with Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Harvard and NBER, mimeo, June 1989.
"Testimony to the House Agricultural Committee," May 11, 1989.
"Government Spending and Budget Deficits in the Industrial Economies," with N. Roubini, NBER Working Paper No. 2919, Economic Policy 8. April 1989.
"Testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Economic Policy," April 19, 1989.
Comments on "Developing Countries in the World Economy: New Themes" by Paul Krugman, Daedalus, Winter 1989, Cambridge, MA.
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"Testimony to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs," February 28, 1989.
"Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee," February 9, 1989.
"Testimony to the Senate Banking Committee," February 8, 1989.
"Testimony to the House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs," January 5, 1989.
1988
"Comprehensive Debt Retirement: The Bolivian Example," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 1988.
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"Global Adjustments to a Shrinking U.S. Trade Deficit," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 1988.
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"Bolivia: 1952-1986," with J.A. Morales, Country Studies, No. 6, International Center for Economic Growth, San Francisco, 1988.
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"Review Essay: 'Recent Studies of the Latin American Debt Crisis'," Latin American Research Review, Vol. XXIII, no. 3 (1988) pp. 170-179.
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"Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the Industrial Economies," with W. McKibbin, in Jacob A. Frenkel (ed.), International Aspects of Fiscal Policies, National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 1988.
(previously NBER Working Paper 1800)
"Social Conflict and Populist Policies in Latin America" prepared for conference on "Markets, Institutions, and Cooperations: Labour Relations and Economic Performance," Venice, Italy, October 1988, in R. Brunetta and C. Dell-Aringa (eds.), Labour Relations and Economic Performance, MacMillan Press, 1989. Spanish translation in Revista de Economica Politica, Vol. 10, No. 1(37), Jan-March, 1990, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and republished in Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Populismo Economico (Sao Paulo: Livraria Nobel S.A.) 1991.
"Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the Industrial Economies," with W. McKibbin, in Jacob A. Frenkel (ed.), International Aspects of Fiscal Policies, National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 1988.
"International Policy Coordination: The Case of the Developing Country Debt Crisis," in Martin Feldstein, International Economic Cooperation, National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 1988.
"Sources of Macroeconomic Imbalances in the World Economy: A Simulation Approach," with N. Roubini, in Suzuki (ed.), Toward a World of Economic Stability: Optimal Monetary Framework and Policy, Bank of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 1988.
"Baker's Bank Bailout," The New Republic, November 14, 1988.
"International Payments Imbalances of the East Asian Developing Economies," with Mark Sundberg, in Fieleke, N.S. (ed.) International Payments Imbalances in the 1980s, Proceedings of a conference held in October 1988, Conference series No. 32, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
"International Payments Imbalances of the East Asian Developing Economies," with Mark Sundberg in Fieleke, N.S. (ed.), International Payments Imbalances in the 1980's, Proceedings of a conference held in October 1988, Conference Series No. 32, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
"Japanese Structural Adjustment and the Balance of Payments," with Peter Boone, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 286-327, September 1988.
"Future Development in the World Monetary System," Kinyu Journal Sha (Monthly Financial Journal), September 1988.
"Testimony to the Subcommittee on International Finance, Trade and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs," July 13, 1988.
"Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Growth-Oriented Adjustment Programs," in Vittorio Corbo, M. Goldstein, and M. Khan (eds.), Growth -Oriented Adjustment Programs, Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Spanish translation in Revista de Economic Politica, Volume 8, No. 2 (30), April-June, 1988.
"Debt Management: A Hard Look at Realities," in Dividend, The Magazine of the School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, June, 1988, pp. 16-19.
"Interview: 'The Debt Crisis at a Turning Point'," in Challenge, May/June, 1988, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 17-26.
"Political and Economic Determinants of Budget Deficits in the Industrial Democracies," with N. Roubini, presented at International Seminar on Macroeconomics, Tokyo, June 7-8, 1988, published in European Economic Review, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 903-938, 1989 (North-Holland).
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"Institutional Aspects of High Unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany," with M. Burda, NBER Working Paper Series, No. 2241, May 1987, in World Economy, Fall 1988.
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"Prospects for Global Trade Imbalances: A Simulation Approach," Seoul Journal of Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, (Seoul National University), pp. 41-74, March, 1988. Also published in Advanced Lectures in Quantitative Economics, F. van der Ploeg (ed.), Academic Press, 1990.
"The Debt Crisis: Structural Explanations of Country Performance," with A. Berg, presented at First InterAmerican Seminar on Economics (IASE), March 17-19, 1988, Mexico City, Journal of Development Economics 29 (1988) 271-306 (North-Holland). Spanish translation in E1 Trimestre Economico, Vol. LVI, July 1989, Mexico, special issue edited by Edmar Bacha and Sebastian Edwards.
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"Testimony to the House Banking Committee," February 4, 1988.
1987
"U.S. Commercial Banks and the Developing-Country Debt Crisis," with Harry Huizinga, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1987:2.
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"Political Parties and the Business Cycle in the United States, 1948-1984," with A. Alesina, in Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 1987.
"A Debt Writedown Would Send Bank Stocks Up," in The International Economy, October/November, 1987, Volume 1, No. 1, pp. 96-97.
"The Bolivia Hyperinflation and Stabilization," American Economic Review, Vol. 77, No. 2, May, 1987.
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"Dynamic Optimization in Two-Party Models," with W. McKibbin and N. Roubini, NBER Working Paper Series, No. 2213, April, 1987.
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"Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress," April 28, 1987.
"Testimony to the Subcommittee on International Finance, Trade, and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs," March 3. 1987.
1986
"Managing the LDC Debt Crisis," with John Williamson, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 1986.
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"A New Approach for Managing the Debt Crisis," The Columbia Journal of World Business, Vol. XXI, No. 3, Fall 1986.
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Jones, Ronald W. and Peter B. Kenen, eds., Handbook of International Economics, Volume II (Review). Journal of International Economics, Vol. 21, No. 3-4, November 1986.
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"Contractionary Devaluation and Dynamic Adjustment of Exports and Wages," with F. Larrain, NBER Working Paper Series, No. 2078, November, 1986.
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"Comparing the Global Performance of Alternative Exchange Arrangements," with W. McKibbin, NBER Working Paper Series, No. 2024, September 1986, in the Journal of Policy Modelling, 1988.
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"Don't Go for the Gold," The New Republic, August 11 & 12, 1986.
"Testimony to the Subcommittee on International Trade, Senate Finance Committee," May 13, 1986.
"Conditionality, Debt Relief, and the Developing Country Debt Crisis," Harvard and NBER, mimeo, April, 1986.
1985
"International Policy Coordination in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models," with Gilles Oudiz, in International Economic Policy Coordination, W. Buiter and R. Marston (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1985.
"Exchange Rates and Economic Recovery in the 1930s," with B. Eichengreen, in Journal of Economic History, Vol. XLV, No. 4, December 1985. Also published in facsimile series entitled "Depression and the New Deal," Stephen Burwood (ed.), Garland Publishing Inc. (Hamden, CT), 1989/90.
(previously NBER Working Paper 1498)
"Growth and External Debt Under Risk of Debt Repudiation," with Daniel Cohen, European Economic Review, 1985, and in International Volatility and Economic Growth, G. de Menil and R. Gordon (eds.), North-Holland, 1991.
(previously NBER Working Paper 1703)
"External Debt and Macroeconomic Performance in Latin America and East Asia," with John Williamson, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 1985.
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"Comment: Latin American Debt: I Don't Think We Are in Kansas Anymore" (by Diaz Alejandro), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 1985.
"The Dollar and the Policy Mix: 1985," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 1985. Reproduced in Recent Developments in Macroeconomics, Edmund Phelps (ed.), Edward Elgar Publ. Ltd., Glasgow.
(previously NBER Working Paper 1636)
"International Policy Coordination in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models," with Gilles Oudiz, in Review of Economic Studies, 1985. Reprinted in International Coordination in Dynamic Macroeconomics, Buiter and Marston (eds.), 1985.
"The Effects of OECD Macroeconomic Policies on the Developing Countries," with Warwick McKibbin, presented at World Bank Conference, in conference volume, 1985, and in Seoul Journal of Economics, 1985.
"LDC Borrowing with Default Risk," with D. Cohen, Kredit und Kapital, 1985.
(previously NBER Working Paper 925).
"International Policy Coordination in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models," with Gilles Oudiz, in Willem H. Buiter and Richard C. Marston (eds.), International Economic Policy Coordination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 1985.
(previously NBER Working Paper 1417).
Economics of Worldwide Stagflation, with Michael Bruno, Harvard University Press, 1985.
"High Unemployment in Europe: Diagnosis and Policy Implications," in Unemployment in Europe, C-H Siven (ed.), proceedings of Yxtaholm Conference of September, 1985, SAF, Stockholm, Sweden.
(previously NBER Working Paper 1830)
"Is There a Case for More Managed Exchange Rates," in The Dollar--Recent Developments, Outlooks, and Policy Options, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1985.
"Borrowing Abroad: The Debtor's Perspective," with Richard Cooper, in Cuddington and Smith (eds.), International Debt and the Developing Countries, World Bank Symposium, 1985.
(previously NBER Working Paper 1427)
"How to Save the Third World," The New Republic, October 28, 1985.
"Israel's Economic Disaster," The New Republic, July 8, 1985.
"Macroeconomic Interdependence of Japan and the United States: Some Simulation Results," with N. Ishii and W. McKibbin, in Journal of Policy Modelling, Winter 1985, pp. 533-572.
(previously NBER Working Paper 1637)
"Future Fiscal Shock," The New Republic, March 18, 1985.
"Macroeconomic Policies in the OECD and LDC External Adjustment," with Warwick McKibbin, NBER Working Paper, No. 1534, January 1985.
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1984
"Theoretical Issues in International Borrowing," Princeton Studies in International Finance, No. 54, 1984 (published in Spanish translation in Estudios Economicos, July-December, 1986). Reprinted in Graham Bird and P. Nicholas Snowden (eds.), International Debt, Volume I, Edward Elgar Publ. Ltd., U.K., 1995.
(previously NBER Working Paper 1189)
"Macroeconomic Policy Coordination Among the Industrial Economies," with Gilles Oudiz, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 1984.
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"The United States in the World Economy, 1983," The Economic Outlook, University of Michigan, 1984.
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"Developing Country Debt and the Market Value of Large Commercial Banks," with Steven Kyle, NBER Discussion Paper, No. 1470, September, 1984.
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"La Politique Budgetaire et le Taux de Change Reel," with Charles Wyplosz, Annales de l'Insee, Vol. 53, pp.63-92, January-March, 1984. French version of "Reala Exchange Rate Effects of Fiscal Policy," 1983.
1983
"Real Exchange Rate Effects of Fiscal Policy," with Charles Wyplosz, 1983, Econometrica.
(previously NBER Working Paper 1255)
"Comment: The Economic Consequences of Mrs. Thatcher (Buiter and Miller)," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 1983.
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"Comment: Identifying the Effects of Structural Change" (Laurence Klein), Industrial Change and Public Policy, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1983.
"Real Wages and Unemployment in the OECD Countries," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 1983.
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"Energy and Growth under Flexible Exchange Rates." in J. Bhandari and B. Putnam, The International Transmission of Economic Disturbances, (MIT Press, 1983), pp 191-220.
(previously NBER Working Paper 582)
"Comment: Real Adjustment and Exchange Rate Dynamics (Neary and Purvis)," in J. Frenkel (ed.), Exchange Rates and International Macroeconomics, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1983.
"Comment: IMF Conditionality in Italy, Portugal, and the United Kingdom (by Spaventa, Silva Lopes, and Crawford)," in J. Williamson (ed), IMF Conditionality, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, 1983.
"Accumulation and Growth in a Two-Country Model," with D. Lipton, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 15, No. 1-2, pp. 135-159, August 1983. (previously NBER Working Paper 572)
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1982
"Anticipations, Recessions, and Policy: An Intertemporal Disequilibrium Model," with Olivier Blanchard, Annales de l'Insee, No. 47-48, July-December 1982.
(previously NBER Working Paper 971)
"The Oil Shocks and Macroeconomic Adjustment in the United States," European Economic Review 18, 1982.
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"The Current Account in the Macroeconomic Adjustment Process," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 84, No. 2, 1982.
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"Comment: Policy Analysis with Econometric Models (by Sims)," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 1982.
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"LDC Debt: Problems and Prospects," in P. Wachtel (ed.), Crises in the Economic and Financial Structure, (Lexington Books, 1982) and LDC Debt in the 1980s: Risks and Reforms.
"Comment: The Employment-Real Wage Relationship, An International study (Geary and Kennan)," mimeo, Harvard, 1982.
"Multiple Shooting in Two-Point Boundary Value Problems," with D. Lipton, J. Poterba, and L. Summers, Econometrica, Vol. 50, No. 5, September 1982.
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"Energy and Resource Allocation: A Dynamic Model of the Dutch Disease," with Michael Bruno, published in special issue of Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 49, No. 159, 845-859, for the Cambridge University Conference on Unemployment, July, 1982. (previously NBER Working Paper 852)
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"Stabilization Policies in the World Economy: Scope and Skepticism," American Economic Review, May 1982.
(previously NBER Working Paper 862)
"Testimony to the House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs," April 1. 1992.
1981
"The Supply Approach to Oil Shocks and the Slowdown in Japanese Economic Growth," Toko Keizai Shinpo Sha (The Oriental Economist), 1981.
"The Current Account and Macroeconomic Adjustment in the 1970's," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 1981. (previously NBER Working Paper 796)
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"Supply Versus Demand Approaches to the Problem of Stagflation," with Michael Bruno, in H. Giersch (ed.), Macroeconomic Policies for Growth and Stability, (Kiel: Institut fur Weltwirtschaft, 1981).
(previously NBER Working Paper 382)
"The International Economics of Transitional Growth--The Case of the United States," with Laurence Kotlikoff and Edward Leamer, Sept., 1981, NBER Working Paper Series, No. 773.
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"A Comparison of the Japanese and U.S. Macroeconomic Responses to the Oil Price Shocks," presented at the Conference on Problems in Fiscal and Monetary Policies in the U.S. and Japan, sponsored by the Japan Ministry of Finance and the U.S.-Japan program of Harvard University, in Tokyo, August, 1981, and published in conference volume.
"Input Price Shocks and the Slowdown in Economic Growth," with Michael Bruno, published in special issue of Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 49, No. 159, pp. 679-706, 1982 for the Cambridge University Conference on Unemployment, July 1981. Also published in Greenhalgh, layard and Esward (eds.) The Causes of Unemployment, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1983. (previously NBER Working Paper 851)
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"The Current Account and Exchange Rates in the OECD," presented at 5th International Conference of the University of Paris-Dauphine on Money and International Monetary Problems, June 15-17, 1981, and published in conference volume, E. Glaassen and P. Salin (eds.), Recent Issues in the Theory of Flexible Exchange Rates (North-Holland: Amsterdam), 1983.
1980
"Comment: Oil and Economic Performance in Industrial Countries (by Nordhaus)," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2, 1980.
"Comment: International Adjustment with Wage Rigidity (by Branson and Rotemberg)," European Economic Review, 1980.
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"Wages, Flexible Exchange Rates, and Macroeconomic Policy," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XCIV, No. 4, pp. 731-748, June 1980.
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"The Changing Cyclical Behavior of Wages and Prices, 1890-1976," American Economic Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, March 1980. (previously NBER Working Paper 304)
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"Stocks and Prices and Materials in the Macro-Model," with O. Blanchard, March, 1980, Harvard.
1979
"Wages, Profits, and Macroeconomic Adjustment: A Comparative Study," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, pp. 269-319, Issue 2, 1979. Reprodoced in Recent Developments in Macroeconomics, Edmund Phelps (ed.), Edward Elgar Publ. Ltd., Glasgow.
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"Macroeconomic Adjustment with Import Price Shocks: Real and Monetary Aspects," with Michael Bruno, NBER Working Paper Series, No. 340, April, 1979.
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"Achieving Monetary Stabilization in Russia in 1993," mimeo.
"Strengthening Western Support for Russia's Economic Reforms," mimeo.
"Living Standards in Poland and the Economic Reforms," mimeo.
