Papers from NS3040 Fall Quarter 2014

Country Studies -- Legatum Institute: Prosperity in Depth, November 2012

• Albert Fishlow: Argantina

• Julia Sweig: Brazil

• Robyn Meredith, China

• James Robinson, Colombia

• Magda Kandil, Egypt: Managing Creative Destruction

• Thorvaldur Gylfason, Iceland

• Shikha Dalmia, India

• Robert Looney, Iran

• Robert Dekle, Japan

• Peter Murrell, Mongolia

• Hilton Root, Turkey

• Jonathan Pincus, Vietnam

Other Papers

• Diane Coyle, Beyond GDP: What the measure of economic performance misses about economic performance, Foreign Affairs February 16, 2014

• Zachary Karabell, (Mis)Leading Indicators: Why our Economic Numbers Distort Reality, Foreign Affairs (March/April 2014)

• Raghuram Rajan, Currencies Aren't the Problem, Foreign Affairs March/April 2011

  Fix domestic policy, not exchange rates

• John Williamson, Beijing Consensus versus Washington Consensus, Chapter, Handbook of Emerging Economies, 2013

• Jagdish Bhagwati, Banned Aid: Why International Assistance Does Not Alleviate Poverty, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2010

• Christopher Blattman, Show them the Money: Why Giving Cash Helps Alleviate Poverty, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2014

• Charles Brummer and Daniel Gorfine, Crowdfunding: The Next Big Thing, Milken Review, First Quarter 2013

• John Gibson and David McKenzie, Eight Questions About Brain Drain, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2011

• Economics and Emigration: Trillion Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2011

• Uri Dadush, Global Rebalancing: the Dangerous Obsession, Carnegie Policy Brief, February 2011

• Ruchir Sharma, The Ever-Emerging Markets: Why Economic Forecasts Fail, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2014

• Ruchir Sharma, Leaders Indicating: Why Markets Now Use Politics to Predict Economics, Foreign Affairs, (September/October 2014)

• Danny Quah, Convergence Determines Governance -- Within and Oithout, Brookings Think Tank 20, October 2014-- FINAL EXAM

• Uri Dadush, The World Order in 2050, Carnegie, February 2010

• Amrita Narlikar, Making Room for Rising Powers, Current History, January 2014

• Uri Dadush, Converging Economic Destinies, Current History, January 2014

• Andrei Shleifer and Daniel treisman, Normal Countries: The East 25 Years After Communism, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2014

• Anders Aslund, An Economic Strategy to Save Ukraine, Peterson Institute for International Economics, November 2014

Africa

• Anne Pitcher, Lions, Tigers and Emerging Markets: Africa's Development Dilemmas, Current History, May 2012

• Ethan Kakpstein, Africa's Capitalist Revolution, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2009

• Arvind Subramanian, Mauritius: A Case Study, Finance and Development, December 2001

• Kate Meagher, The Jobs Crisis Behind Nigeria's Unrest, Current History, May 2013

• Luc Christiaensen and Shantayanan Devarajan, Making the Most of Africa's Growth, Current History, May 2013

• Thandika Mkandawire, Can Africa Turn from Recovery to Development?, Current History, May 2014

• Christina Stolte, Brazil in Africa: Just Another BRICs Country Seeking Resources?, Chatham House, November 2012

• Robert Looney, Austerity in the Tropics: Is Puerto Rico the New Greece? The Milken Institute Review, Fourth Quarter 2014

• Thomas Willett, Crying for Argentina (Milken Review, Second Quarter 2002) -- liberalization under a currency board

• Michael Shifter and Cameron Combs, Shifting Fortunes: Brazil and Mexico in a Transformed Region, Current History, February 2013

• Theodore Moran et al., Chinese Investment in Latin American Resources: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Peterson Institute for International Economics, February 2012 -- COUNTS FOR 2 QUESTIONS.

Asia

• Nicholas Lardy and Nicholas Borst, Rebalancing the Chinese Economy, Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter 2013

• China Going Global Investment Index, EIU, 2014

• Karen Brooks, Indonesia and the Philippines: A Tale of Two Archipelagoes, Foreign Affairs January/February 2014

• Richard Katz, Voodoo Abenomics: Japan's Failed Comeback Plan, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2014

• Linda Lim, Singapore After the Miracle

• IMF, The Big Split: Why Did Output Trajectories in the ASEAN-4 Diverge After the Global financial Crisis?, October 2013

• Three Arrows of Abenomics and the Structural Reform of Japan: Inflation Targeting Policy of the Central Bank, Fiscal Consolidation, and Growth Strategy Naoyuki Yoshino and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary Asian Development Bank, August 2014

• Robert Looney, "Thaksinomics Revisited" Milken Institute Review, First Quarter 2008

Middle East

• IMF, Arab Countries in Transition: Economic Outlook and Key Challenges, October 9, 2014

• Carolyn Barnett, The New Energy Revolution in the Gulf, CSIS, November 2014

• Gonul Tol, The Turkish Model in the Middle East, Current History, December 2012

• Daniel Dombey, Turkey: How Erdogan Did it and Could Blow It, Foreign Affairs, January February 2014

• Robert Looney, "The Iranian Oil Bourse: A Threat to Dollar Supremacy?" Challenge, 50:2, March-April 2007, pp. 86-109 (page proofs).

• Robert Looney, "The IMF's Return to Iraq" Challenge 49:3 (May/June 2006) ,pp. 68-82.