Infrastructure Inequality: Who Pays the Cost of Road Roughness?
Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure?
Research
Behind the Curve: Can Manufacturing Still Provide Inclusive Growth?
Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined over recent decades, darkening opportunities for middle-class advancement.
Sustainability Transitions in Consumption-Production Systems
The need for faster and deeper transitions toward more sustainable development pathways is now widely recognized.
System transitions research and sustainable development: Challenges, progress, and prospects
The central challenge of our age is how to make development sustainable—to assure that it advances people’s well-being in the here and now without unfairly constraining the ability of people elsewhere
Did the Fed Rein in Inflation?
According to the traditional rules of politics, the US Federal Reserve and President Joe Biden’s administration should get credit for America’s relatively painless escape from inflation, regardless of
Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa
It is painfully clear that South Africa is performing poorly, exacerbating problems such as inequality and exclusion.
Comment on "Presidential Address: Demand-Side Constraints in Development: The Role of Market Size, Trade, and (In)Equality"
This is a bold and intriguing paper.
Towards a Sustainable Recovery for Lebanon
Lebanon’s current economic crisis ranks among the worst in recent history. GDP has collapsed by 38% in real terms.
China's Great Leap Backward
China’s ongoing economic slowdown is partly the result of its failure to implement crucial structural reforms that would have enabled it to escape the middle-income trap.
Great Dilution: The Global Impact of the US Inflation Shock on Sovereign Debt
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.
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