Economic Growth

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Global and Local Challenges in Argentina and Brazil
Guillermo Calvo et al.
December 14, 2018
The last presidential elections in Argentina (2015) and in Brazil (2018), represent a change from populism towards more orthodox economic policies in two important countries in the region. This shift is not only economic but also reflects other fundamental changes in the electorate, in particular th...
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Everything You Know about Cross-Country Convergence Is (Now) Wrong
Dev Patel et al.
October 15, 2018
A quarter-century after the empirical growth literature set out to explain why poor countries aren’t catching up with rich ones, cross-country regressions have mercifully gone out of fashion. But in the interim, the core facts have changed.
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Pakistan’s Economic Prospects: A CGD Roundtable has Advice for Imran Khan’s New Economic Team
Masood Ahmed
August 09, 2018
Although the new government has yet to take office, Imran Khan, who as of Monday has won the most seats in parliament, is expected to realize his long-term aim of becoming prime minister. Having run on a platform of ending corruption and promoting human development, expectations are high especially ...
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Knowledge or its Adoption?
Lant Pritchett
August 06, 2018
I argue that we did learn two very important things from growth research, and these were learned from research in the strong sense that they changed people’s views from a previous view that was incorrect.