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Indermit Gill

Indermit Gill

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Indermit Gill is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics at the World Bank.

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  1. The World Cannot Afford to Ignore the Poorest Countries
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    The World Cannot Afford to Ignore the Poorest Countries

    Apr 15, 2024 Indermit Gill & M. Ayhan Kose warn that a growing gap between the world’s haves and have-nots will undercut global goals.

  2. When Women Win, the World Wins
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    When Women Win, the World Wins

    Mar 4, 2024 Indermit Gill & Tea Trumbic share new findings suggesting that some of the progress made toward gender equality has been overestimated.

  3. The Global Economy Has Yet to Turn the Corner
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    The Global Economy Has Yet to Turn the Corner

    Jan 10, 2024 Indermit Gill & M. Ayhan Kose worry that the 2020s are shaping up to be a lost decade for many developing economies.

  4. A Tragedy Is Unfolding in the Poorest Countries
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    A Tragedy Is Unfolding in the Poorest Countries

    Sep 18, 2023 Indermit Gill & M. Ayhan Kose warn that low-income countries’ mounting economic problems will have growing spillover effects.

  5. The New Threat to Prosperity Everywhere
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    The New Threat to Prosperity Everywhere

    Mar 13, 2023 Indermit Gill warns against discarding an economic playbook that delivered decades of global growth and poverty reduction.

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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang

    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

    explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.
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    When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?

    Peter Singer rejects comparisons of the recent US campus protests to the actions of Nazi student groups in the 1930s.
  9. Project Syndicate

    Trump’s Plans for the Fed Would Revive 1970s-Style Inflation

    Maurice Obstfeld thinks the presumptive GOP nominee’s policies reflect an outdated understanding of the economy.

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