Dec 30th 2014 Comment Closing India’s Technology Gap The administration of Prime Minister Modi plans to invest heavily in the expansion of IT. The potential benefits of this strategy are enormous. A column by Raghunath A. Mashelkar.
Dec 30th 2014 Comment Why Did Putin Turn? The real reasons for the Kremlin's aggressive revisionism are the effects of the 2007–2008 financial crisis on global politics. A column by Harold James.
Dec 23rd 2014 Comment Keep the Internet Tax-Free Taxes on information and communications technology are the modern-day equivalent of eating the grain you were saving to plant next year. A column by Robert D. Atkinson.
Dec 15th 2014 Comment Europe’s Misguided Investment Mania Calling for more investment is superficially always attractive. The often-invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking. A column by Daniel Gros.
Dec 11th 2014 Comment Can Japan Reboot? Japan’s experience holds lessons for Europe, the main one being that stimulus policies, though necessary in the short run to support demand, can't address long-term structural deficiencies. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.
Dec 11th 2014 Comment Ebola and Innovation Just as health-care systems in the developing world need to be strengthened, we also need to build up capacities to develop new solutions for similar challenges when they arise. A column by Muhammad Hamid Zaman.
Dec 8th 2014 Comment Balancing China’s external and internal imbalances Too few economists have recognized that Beijings politically difficult reforms, aimed at reducing the savings rate, are necessarily constrained by pressures on China’s external imbalance. A column by Michael Pettis.
Dec 3rd 2014 Comment Europe’s German Ball and Chain A weak German economy makes the necessary structural adjustments in the eurozone periphery much more difficult. That heightens the temptation in these parts to put the blame on Berlin. A column by Daniel Gros.
Dec 2nd 2014 Comment How Europe Can Avoid Bridges to Nowhere The argument of the Juncker-proposal is compelling: Europe needs to invest in its infrastructure. Misallocation can be prevented by installing an indepedent supervisory commission. A column by Barry Eichengreen.
Dec 2nd 2014 Comment The Rising Costs of US Income Inequality Although the economic costs of income inequality are substantial, the political costs may prove to be the most damaging and dangerous. A column by Laura Tyson.
Dec 1st 2014 Comment The Federal Reserve’s Escape from New York The governance structure of the American central banking system is antiquated. The New York Fed is too close to Wall Street. Reforms are long overdue. A column by Simon Johnson.
Nov 28th 2014 Comment Inequality and the Internet As a society, the benefits we have received from information-age technology have been neutralized by the envy and spite that results from living in a world that is ever more unequal. A column by J. Bradford DeLong.
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