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Abhijit Banerjee

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Abhijit Banerjee, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics at MIT.

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  1. The Year of Results
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    The Year of Results

    Dec 4, 2021 Abhijit Banerjee & Cheyenne Olivier dwell on a new source of collective anxiety, and on what it says about today's political leaders.

  2. The Other Side of Growth
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    The Other Side of Growth

    Dec 26, 2019 Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee urge Chinese and Indian policymakers to avoid focusing only on GDP as a means of improving people's lives.

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    The Right Medicine for Pakistan’s Ailing Economy

    Aasim M. Husain thinks a reduced dose of austerity and more liquidity could help fix the country’s debt problem.
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    What If Trump Subdues the Fed?

    Sylvester Eijffinger & Edin Mujagic wonder how far the next president will go to control monetary policymaking.
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    When Russia Fights the Wrong Enemy

    S.C.M. Paine urges Vladimir Putin’s entourage to secure peace in Ukraine before they find themselves at China’s mercy.
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    Will Stability Rise from the Middle East Rubble?

    Dennis Ross explains why the coming year could bring a more favorable alignment of regional forces.
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    Guernica Is Always with Us

    Annie Cohen-Solal

    The past year revealed a world in shambles, one with tragic echoes to Pablo Picasso's famous tableau of mass slaughter carried out with modern efficiency. Like Picasso's generation, we must not avert our eyes from the bleak and tragic global reality that is now being conjured before our eyes.

     laments the tragic developments of 2024, and wonders if humanity can come to its senses.
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    A Triple Fiscal Crisis Is Jeopardizing Climate Action

    Vera Songwe & Guido Schmidt-Traub urge global policymakers to provide low-income countries with the resources to invest in sustainable growth.
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    Will the Second Trump Boom Go Bust?

    Kenneth Rogoff warns that, regardless of domestic policies, powerful global headwinds could impede US economic growth.
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    We Need Energy for AI, and AI for Energy

    Eric Schmidt explains what the United States must do to secure the power the next technological revolution will require.
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    AI Has Not Yet Destroyed Democracy

    Sergei Guriev

    Given that generative AI models capable of rendering life-like “deepfakes” are now accessible to everyone, it is understandable that many would worry about the implications for elections and democratic discourse. But during the “super election year” of 2024, the worst predictions were not borne out.

     notes that the technology had little to no bearing on the many elections held around the world in 2024.

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