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June 8, 2020

Women and Women's Rights
Gender Representation and Diversity in the Foreign Affairs Community

Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte and Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley joined the Council on Foreign Relations for a discussion on the importance of diversity in the foreign affairs community.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is surrounded as she bids farewell to a lobby filled with employees after her last day at the State Department in Washington, January 16, 2009.

March 1, 2023

Economics
The World Bank Stepped Up During the Pandemic

The World Bank (and the IMF) should get credit for increasing their lending to the world's poorest countries during the pandemic. But without additional action, net flows to developing economies will…

The World Bank Stepped Up During the Pandemic

November 19, 2008

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
There is now little doubt ...

This is the biggest financial crisis since the depression: The stock market is way down (graph from Calculated Risk). And, as we all know, home prices are also down. Doubts remain about the health …

April 30, 2013

Fiscal Revisionism

Following the controversy sparked by errors found in Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff’s This Time is Different that has played a central role in supporting austerity policies in the …

May 2, 2013

Europe
Rogoff and Reinhart on Austerity

Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart (R&R) have a good piece in the Financial Times today, "Austerity is not the only answer to a debt problem." This, along with other pieces (for example, here and here), …