NS4053 -- New Articles to Possibly Add to Course ASSIGNMENTS
Galib Kemal Ozhan, Turkey: The Growth Debate Redux, Brookings October 2014
Sergey Drobyshevsky, Russia: Prospects for Growth and Convergence, Brookings October 2014
Peter Drysdale, Australia: Emerging Asia and Global Cooperation, Brookings, October 2014
Maria Wihardja, Growth, Convergence and Income Distribution: A View from Indonesia, Brookings October 2014
W. Lim, Korea: From Rapid, Shared Growth to Slow Unshared Growth? Brookings October 2014
India's Economy: More than a lick of Paint Needed -- Reforms, Economist, February 21, 2015
India's Economy: A Chance to Fly, The Economist, February 21, 2015
Salvatore Babones, China's Predictable Slowdown: Why the Economists Got it Wrong, Foreign Affairs, February 18, 2015
Martin baily and Janna Remes, Emerging Economie' Demographic Challenge, Project Syndicate, February 26, 2015 -- problem of slowing populations
Brad Delong, Making Do With More, Project Syndicaate February 26, 2015 problems of information age products
Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng, China's Dual track Challenge, Project Syndicate, February 26, 2015 -- With China's economic slowdown more apparent than ever, its prospects of avoiding a hard landing are weakening. Whether policymakers succeed will depend on whether they can navigate the challenges stemming from an increasingly divided dual-track economy. P>
Katherine Hille and Courtney Weaver, Russia: Left Out of the Cold, Financial times, February 26, 2015 -- with an economy shrinking, the opposition should be triving, but the truth is very different
Randal Aarchibold, As Cuba Shifts Towards Capitalism, Inequality Grows More Visible, New York Times, February 24, 2015
Salvatore Babones, China's Predictable slowdown, Foreign Affairs, February 18, 2015
Christopher Green, North Korea's Economic Reforms Constrained by Geopolitical isolation, World Politics Review, February 18, 2015
George Friedman, Population Decline and the Great Economic Reversal, Stratfor February 17, 2015
Brookings, Lucky Countries or Lucky People: Will East Africans Befefit from their Natural Resource Discoveries, February 5, 2015
Deborah Potts, Whatever Happened to Africa's Rapid Urbanization, World Economics, April-June 2012
Mthuli Ncube and Z.Brixiova, Remittances and ther Macroeconomic Impact: Evidence From Africa, World Economics, October-December 2013
Edward Lincoln, Grading Abenomics: It's a C-, Yale Global February 10, 2015
Adaor Tirmer, The Global Economy's Chinese Headwinds, Project Syndicate, February 12, 2015.
Daniel Raisbeck, Neoliberalism: The Ever Reliable Strawman, panampost February 10, 2015
Robert Looney, Why Has the Middle East Been So Slow To Globalize? Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, Volume 3, Number 3 2005
Jim O'Neill, Two Cheers for the New Normal, Project Syndication, February 4, 2015
What Macroeconomics Really Says About a Country, Ventures Africa, February 8, 2015 --NS3040
Lauren Johnston, China's road to Growth in Africa, East Asia Forum, February 7, 2015
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism, Journalof Economic Perspectives, Winter 2015
Michael Allison, U.S. Can't Solve Central America's Problems With Money Alone, World Politis Review, February 3, 2015
MENA: Plunging Oil Prices, World Bank, MENA Quarterly Economic Brief January 2015
Antonio Nucifra, Cronyism, Corruption and the Arab Spring: The Case of Tunisia, Heritage, Index of Economic Freedom, 2014
Dudley Sears, A Theory of Inflation and Growth in Underdeveloped Economies Based on the Experience of Latin America, Oxford Economic Papers, June 1962
Honduras to Unveil First ZEDE in March, panampost, January 20, 2015
Simon Cox, China's New Subnormal, Foreign Affairs, January 19, 2015 -- China has made its peace with a gentler pace of exonomc expansion. But not this gentile
Mo Ibrahim, Africa Calling: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2015 -- African entrepreneurship
Jadwa Investment, The Saudi Economy in 2015, January 2015 -- good on oil markets
ERBD, Oil Driven Russia Downturn Adds to Weakness in EBRD economies, January 19, 2015 -- eurasia section
World Bank, What Does a Slowdown in China Mean for Latin America and the Caribbean, January 2015
Niy Aderbigbe, How Africa is Ending the Resource Curse, Ventures, Januay 18, 2015
Robert Springborg, GCC Countries as Rentieer States Revisited,
Martyn Davies, Africa Rising not sustainable unless it's economies adapt to 21st Century, Rand Daily Mail January 18, 2015
The Ebb and Flow of Federal fortune -- russia and oil price drop economist, January 16, 2015 -- eurasia section
Ibrahim Saif, the Bloated Informal Economies in Arab Countries, Carnegie, February 13, 2013
Ibrahim Saif, A New Approach to Development in Arab Countries, February 26, 2013
Anton Barbashin, The Eurasian Illusion: The My th of Russia's Economic Union, Foreign Affairs, January 15, 2015
Paul Goodwin, Falling Appart at the BRICs, Seeking Alpha, January 16, 2015
McKinsey Global Institute, Global Growth: Can Productivity Save the Day in an Aging World, January 2015
Economist, Special Section, Emerging Africa, March 2, 2013
Africa's Reformers: Re-wiring Governance, This is Africa: Special report 2014
Gordon Orr, What Could Happen to China in 2015, McKinsey 2014 -- CHINA section
Latin America in 2015: Manufacturing Aces, Commodity Bases and Basket Cases, Knowledge@Wharton, January 9, 2015 LATIN AMERICA SECTION
Opportunities vs Risks in Cuba:Do Your Homework and Tread Carefully, Knowledge@Wharton January 14, 2015
Reid Standish, How Russia's Sinking Economy Could Provoke Unrest at its Doorstep, Foreign Policy January 12, 2015 EURASIA section
Why Some Commodity Exporters are Coping Better With Lower Prices Than Others, The Economist January 10, 2015
Why Africa is Becoming Less Dependent on Commodities, The Economist, January 11, 2015 Africa section
Tendai Mugabe, Africa The Call to Look East, Shun Europe, US, The Herald, January 2015 Africa section
Population Boom in Africa: A Dividend or a Liability, Rabobank, July 22, 2014 -- Africa section
James Bessen, The Anti-Innovators: How Special Interests Undemine Entrepreneurship Foreign Affairs, January/February 2015
Jordan Year in Review 2014, Oxford Business Group, December 23, 2014 Middle East Section
Saudi Arabia Year in Review 2014 Oxford Business Group, January 7, 2014
Legatum The 2014 Africa Prosperity Report, Legathum 2014
Oxford Analytica, International: Economic Measurement Faces Huge Changes, January 2, 2015
Brookings, Foresight Africa: Top Priorities for the Continent in 2015, January 2015 -- contemporary essays
Bryan Mezue, et al., The Power of Market Creation: How Innovation Can Spur Developemnt, Foreign Affairs January/February 2015 -- need to get complete copy
Niall Ferguson, The Divergent World of 2015, WSJ January 2, 2015
Zhang Monan, The Next Chinese Economy, Project Syndicate, January 2, 2015 -- East Asia
Weak Currencies are the New Cool, Ventures, January 2, 2015 Africa sectiion
Do Sweden and South Africa Prove Piketty's Theories Wrong?, Value Walk January 2, 2015
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism, MIT, December 2014 --Critique of Pikkety's book and analysis
Perry Munzwembiri, Top Risks for African Economies in 2015: Analysis, January 2, 2015 Eurasia Review
Nate Schenkkan,Eurasian Disunion: Why the Union Might Not Survive in 2015, Foreign Affairs, December 26, 2014 Eurasia section
Aviel roshwald, The Global Crisis of the Nation State, Current History, January 2015
Elaine More et al., Oil and Dollar Hammer Emerging Markets, Financial Times, December 8, 2014
EIU, Business Environment Rankings: Which Country is Best to Do Business In, 2014
Robert Springborg, The Energy Revolution's Impacats on the Arab World, Middle East Institute June 2014 -- middle east section OIL
Timothy Ash, Hello 2015: Having Filed Ukraine, Russia Will turns Inward, Financial Times, December 17, 2014
Rafael Halpin, Hello 2015, No Hard Landing for China, financial Times, December 22, 2014 -- east asia section
Tony Volpon, Hellow 2015: Brazil's Inevitable Adjustment, Financial Times, December 18, 2014
Jorge Mariscal, Hellow 2015: The EM Catch up Themes to Watch, Financial Times, December 23, 2014
Mohamed El-Erian, Hellow 2015: Divergence in Developed Markets Will Set the Stage, Financial Times, December 17, 2014 OIL
Piroska Mohacsi Nagy, Cuba's Lessons from Eastern Europe, Financial Times, December 30, 2014 -- Latin America section
Carole Nakhle, Can Oil and Gas Markets Adjust to a Rising Persia, Carnegie, October 30, 2014 -- Middle East Section -- Good on Iran OIL
Moises Naim, Good Mexico vs Bad Mexico, Carnegie, November 19, 2014
Yukon Huang, Rethinking China's State-Owned Enterprises, Carnegie, November 21, 2014 -- very good, east asia section
Yukon Huang, Squaring the Circle: How the Reforms can Work, (China section for sure), Carnegie, December 3, 2014
Dmitri Trenin, Despite Crisis, reform Elusive for Russia, Carnegie, December 31, 2014 OIL
EIU, Brazil's Political and Economic Outlook Under DilmA 2.0, October 2014
Zhang Jun, China's Growth Secret, Project Syndicate, December 26, 2014
IMF, Arab Countries in Transition: Economic Outlook and Key Challenges, October 9, 2014
Claudio Frischtak, Brazil: Demography, Technology, and All Other Things Considered, Brookings, Think Tank 20, soctober 2014
NR Bhunumurthy, Recent Downturn in Emerging Economies and Macroeconomic Implications for Sustinable Development: A Case of India, DESA Working Paper October 2014
Jorge Mariscal, Hellow 2015: the EM Catch Up themes to Watch, Financial times, December 23, 2014
Hugo Cox, A New Economic Crystal Ball for EM Gazers, Financial Times, December 23, 2014
Charles Kenny, Millennium Goals Miss African Progress, Current History, May 2013 -- Africa section
Luc Christiaensen, Making the Most of Africa's Growth -- Direct Transfer Programs, Current History, May 2013 -- Africa section
Roberto Azgha, India's Inequality: An Uneasy Reconciliation With Economic Growth, Current History, April 2013 South Asia section
Nora Lustig, Latin America's Inequality Success Story, Current History, February 2013 Latin America section -- fall in skill premium and more progressive government transfers
Ricardo Hausmann, The Productivity of Trust, Project Syndicate, December 23, 2014 -- trust between government and business critical for productivity gains,
IMF, Inclusive Growth, Institutions and the Underground Economy
Ernesto Talvi, Four Charts Explaining Latin America's Decade of Development-Less Growth, Brookings, December 5, 2014
Ricardo Haausmann, In Search of Convergence, Project Syndicate, August 20, 2014
Ejaz Ghani, Growth Escalators and Growth Convergence, VOX August 17, 2014 -- Africa section
Kemal Dervis, The End of Convergence, Project Syndicate, October 3, 2013
Kemal Dervis, Catching up at Different Speeds, Project Syndicate, December 17, 2013
Kemal Dervis, World Economy: Convergence, Interdependence and Divergence, Finance & Development, September 2012 -- short and long-run patterns of advanced and emerging economies -- good charts
Oxford Economics, Emerging Markets Briefing: Emerging Markets Facing a Potential Volcker Shock? February 3, 2014
World Bank, Global Development Horizons 2011: Multipolarity: The New Global Economy
World Bank Global Economic Prospects -- Sub Saharan Africa, June 2014
World Bank Global Economic Prospects, Middle East and North Africa, June 2013
World Bank Global Economic Prospects, Europe and Central Asia, June 2014
World Bank, Global Economic Prospects, South Asia, June 2014
World Bank, Global Economic Prospects Latin America and the Caribbean, June 2014
World Bank, Global Economic Prospects, East Asia and the Pacific, June 2014
IMF Multilateral Policy Issues Report, 2014 Spillover Report, July 29, 2014
Eustaquio Reis, Recent macroeconomic trends in emerging economies and implications for development: Country Study Brazil, DESA Working Paper, June 2014
Oxford Analytica, International: Fed Outlook Threatens Emerging Markets, July 2, 2014
Oxford Analytica, International, Emerging Market Bubble Fears Grow, July 9, 2014
Dimitri Trenin, Russia's Breakout From the Post-Cold War System: The Drivers of Putin's Course, Carnegie, December 22, 2014 -- Eurasia
Sergei Guriev, Russia is Heading into and Economic Strom With No Captain, Financial Times, December 16, 2014 (Eurasia)
Gillian Tett, Russia Sounds a Warning of the Frailties of Global Debt, Financial Times, December 18, 2014 (Eurasia)
David Pilling, What Goes up Must Come Down -- Even China, Financial Times November 19, 2014 (Asia section)
Katherin Hille et al., Through the Looking Glass: The Kremlin Struggles to Restore Calm: Moscow: Moscow is facing its biggest economic crisis since 1998, Financial Times, December 19, 2014 (Eurasia section)
Kirll Rogov, The Oil Price Wil Set the Test for Putin's Resource Nationalism, Financial times November 30, 2014 (Eurasia section)
Josh Noble, China: Fear of a Deflationary Spiral, Financial times November 30, 2014 (Asia section)
Katherine Hille, Russian Economy: Buckwheat Blues, Financial Times, November 25, 2014 (Eurasia section)
Martin Wolf, Hope for the Best on Productivity, but Prepare for the Worst, financial times, November 13, 2014 (economic growth section)
Claire Jones, Bank for International Settlements Sounds Alarm Over Dollar, Financial Timees, December 7, 2014 (emerging markets)
Daniel Cloud, revenge of the Ruble: What the Crisis Means for Putin, Foreign Affairs, December 18, 2014 (eurasia section)
Julia Sweig, Cuba After Communism: The Economic Reforms that are Transforming the Island, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2013 (Latin America section)
Michael Bustamante, Cuban Domrades: The Truth About Washington and Havana's New Detente, Foreign Affairs, December 21, 2014 (Latin America section)
Mary O'Grady, Who Benefits if the Embargo Is Lifted? WSJ, December 21, 2014 (Latin America Section)
Eduardo Porter, Slowdown in China Bruises Economy in Latin America, New York Times, December 16, 2014 (Latin America section)
Eduardo Porter, In Latin America, Growth Trumps Climate, New York Times, December 9, 2014 (Latin America section)
Eduardo Porter, Income Gap Shrinks in Chile, for Better or Worse, NYT December 2, 2014 (Latin America section)
Nepal: Overcoming distruct in the Market, ISE Center August 2011 (South Asia section)
Singapore: From third World to First, ISE Center 2011) (asia section)
The Case of Transformation in Mozambique, ISE Center 2012 (Africa section)
Clare Lockhart, Singapore the Evolution of an Entrepot, ISE January 2014 (Asian section
Peter Pomerantsev, Russia: A Postmodern Dictatorship? Legatum Institute, October 2013 (Eurasia section)
Mondher ben Ayed, The Dynamics for Transition in Tunisia and their Implications on the Economy, Legatum Institute, June 2013 (Middle East Section)
Mark Russell, South Korea: Ready for Prime Time, Legatum Institute, 2013 (Asia section)
Clifford Gaddy and Barry Ickes, Russia: Caught in the Bear Trap, Legatum Institute, 2013 (Eurasia section)
Insight on Africa: Special Report, Legathum Institute, 2013 (Africa Section)
Shahriar Ahy, Curing Iran's Sick Economy: An Investor's Vantage Point, Legathum Institute, September 2013 (Middle East section)
Bijan Khajehpour, The Future of the Petroleum Sector in Iran Legathum Institute, September 2013 (Middle East section)
Massoud Karshenas, Management of Oil, Democracy and Economic Growth in Iran, Legathum Institute, September 2013 (Middle East section)
Sima Motamen-Samadian, The Central Bank of Iran and Future Challenges, Legathum Institute, September 2013 (Middle East section)
Nadereh Chamlou, Iran's Unrealized Potential -- Its Underutilized Talent Pool, Legathum Institute, September 2013 (Middle East section)
Shannon O'Neil, Mexico on the Brink, Legathum Institute, September 2013 (Latin America section)
Reuben Abrahim, Learning by Doing: Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries, Legathum Institute, September 2013 (very good -- Schumpeter section)
Clare Lockhart et al., Fostering Regional Cooperation in West Asia--North Africa: Building on Lessons Earned, Legathum Institute November 2013 (Africa Section)
Mark Dempsey, Libya in Transition: Reforming the financial sector to spur economic growth Legathum Institute(Middle East section)
Venezuela: Democracy Lab Reports, Legathum Institute, January 2014 (Latin America section)
Democracy Lab Report, Kenya, Legatum Institute, January 2014 (Africa section)
Democracy Lab Report, Ukraine, Legathum Institute January 2014 (Eurasia section)
Democracy Lab Report, Libya, Legatum Institute, January 2014 (Middle East Section)
Soumana Sako, Crisis in Mali: Lessons from an Ongoing Democratic Transition, Legathum Institute, February 2014 (Africa section)
Clare Lockhart and Johanna Mendelson Forman, Escaping the Crisis Trap: New Options for Haiti, Legatum Institute April 2014 (Latin America section)
Caroline Karluki, Democratic Transition: Economic Development and the Role of the Private Sector: A Case Study of Kenya, Legatum Institute May 2014 (Africa section)
Oliver Bullough, Looting Ukraine: How East and West Teamed Up to Steal a Country, Legatum Institute, July 2014 (Eurasia section)
Vladimir Soloviev, Moldova: The Failing Champion of European Integration, Legatum Institute July 2014 (Eurasia section)
Gwen Robinson, Myanmar's Transition: Economics or Politics? Which Came First and Why it Matters, Legatum Institute, November 2014, (South Asia Section)
Marc Frank, Euphoria Grips Cuba Amid Doubts Over Detente, Financial Times, December 18, 2014 (Latin America section)
David Smith, Russian Economy Pays High Price for Dutch Disease, Economy Watch, December 17, 2014 (Eurasia section)
Julia Sweig, Cuba After Communism: The Economic Reforms that are Transforming the Economy, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2013 (Latin American section)
Andrea Pescatori, No Magic threshold -- No clear point above wich a nation's debt dramatically compromises medium term debt (Emerging overview section) Finance & Development June 2014
Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Asia's Resilience: the region survived the global crisis and must now cope with a significant worldwide financial and economic transition, Finance & Development, June 2014
Changyong Rhee, Asia: Achieving its Potential: The Region's success is not guaranteed, Finance & Development, June 2014 (Asia Section)
Martin Wolf, Shaping Globalization: Done wisely, it could lead to unparalleled peace and prosperity; done poorly, to disaster, Finance & Development, September 2014
IMF, Arab Countries in Transition, Session 2: Strengthening Transparency and Good Governance, 2014 (Middle East section)
IMF, Shahid Yusuf, Middle East Transitions: A Long, Hard Road, IMF July 2014 (Middle East Section)
IMF, David Lipton, Enabling Economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa, IMF< November 13, 2012 (Middle East section)
IMF, Toward New Horizons: Arab Economic Transformation Amid Political Transitions 2014 (Middle East Section)
IMF, Arab Countries in Transition: Session 3: Bringing Young People into the Labor Market, 2014
IMF, Arab Countries in transition, Session 4: Improving the Business Climate, 2014
IMF, Economic Diversification in Low Income Countries: Stylized Facts and Macroeconomic Implications, December 14, 2012 (developing country overview)
IMF, Redistribution, Inequality and Growth, February 2014 (very good -- emerging economies overview)
IMF, Inequality and Unsustainable Growth: Two Sides of the Same Coin, April 2011 (emerging economy overview)
IMF, Direct Distribution of Resource Revenues: Worth Considering, June 2014 (Middle East section)
IMF Emerging Markets in Transition: Growth Prospects and Challenges, June 2014 (very good--overview emerging economies)
IMF, Emerging Market Volatility: Lessons From the Taper Tantrum, September 2014 (emerging economies overview section)
IMF, Making the Most of Public Investment in MENA and CCA Oil Exporting Countries, November 2014 (Middle east section)
Nassun Taleb and Gregory Treverton, The Calm Before the Storm: Why Volatility Signals Stability and Vice Versa, Foreign Affairs January/February 2014 -- ARAB SPRING
Mariana Mazzucato, The Innovative State: Governments Should Make Markets Not Just Fix Them, Foreign Affairs January/February 2014 -- Schumpeter section
James Bessen, The Anti Innovators: How Special Interests Undermine Entrepreneurship, Foreign Affairs January/February 2015 Schumpeter section
Robert Litan, Start-up Slowdown: How the U.S. can regain its Entrepreneurial Edge, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2015 Schumpeter section
Anna Leach, 14 Ways African Governments Can Extract more from their natural riches, Adam Smith International, The Guardian, December 16, 2014
Lina Khatib -- Corruption in Qatar, Hertie School of Governance February 2014 -- traditional definitions of corruption do not pick up many subtle forms of corruption in tribal-based societies
Gideon Rose, Schumpeter's Heirs, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2015 Schumpeter Section
Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, Development for the People, Project Syndicate December 11, 2014 -- strategies to combat ebola
Dani Rodrik, Good and Bad Inequality, Project Syndicate, December 11, 2014 -- Growth inequality tradeoff debate
Robert Springborg, The Political Economy of the Arab Spring, Mediterranean Politics, October 2011 -- MENA section
IMF, Strengthening Transparency and Good Governance in Arab Transition Countries October 9, 2014 -- MENA section
Masood Ahmed, IMF, New Headwinds Reinforce the Case for Generating Jobs and Growth in the Middle East and North Africa, October 28, 2014 -- MENA section
OECD Does Income Inequality Hurt Economic Growth, December 2014 -- inequality growth debate
Adrian Ravier, Why Argentina Must Learn the Virtues of Economic Orthodoxy: Ignore Basic Economic Lessons, Bring on More Crisis, panampost, December 8, 2014
Anders Aslund, Russia's Economic Situation is Worse than it May Appear, Peterson Institute, December 1, 2014 --EURASIA SECTION
Theodore Moran, Foreign Investment and Supply Chains in Emerging Markets: Recurring Problems and Demonstrated Solutions, Peterson Institute, December 2014 -- Good cases from AFRICA
Roberto Alvarez and Jose de Gregorio, Understanding Differences in Growth Performance in Latin America and Developing Countries Between the Asian and Global Financial Crises, Peterson Institute, November 2014 -- Latin America section
IMF, Anchoring Growth: the Importance of Productivity Enhancing Reforms in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
IMF, Potential Growth in Emerging Asia, January 2014 (Asia Section)
IMF, Emerging Markets in tranisition: growth Prospects and Challenges June 2014 (Introduction to Emerging Economies Section)
IMF Growth Surprises and synchronized Slowdowns in Emerging Markets An Empirical Investigation
IMF A Quality of Growth Index for Developing Countries: A Proposal, September 2014 (Introduction to Emerging Economies section) -- results hard to explain
IMF Slowdown in Emerging Markets: Sign of a Bumpy Road Ahead? November 2014 -- very good overview of emerging economies section SOURCES OF GROWTH SECTION
William Wilson, Beating the Middle Income Trap in Southeast Asia, Heritage August 27, 2014 (Asia Section)
Alcides Costa Vaz, South America's Economic and Political Landscape: Recent Developments and trends, Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Center, September 2014) Latin America Section
McKinsey, Southeast Asia at the Crossroads: Three Paths to Prosperity, November 2014 (Asia Section)
McKinsey, Prospects for Growth: An Interview with Robert Solow, September 2014 (Growth Theory Section)
U.N. Africa: Structural Reforms Can Help Poorest Countries Break "vicious economic Circle allAfrica.com 2014 (Africa section)
Jeffrey Frankel, Emerging-Market target Practice, Project Syndicate June 24, 2014 -- emerging economy monetary policy
Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng, The Next Phase of China's Financial Deepening, Project Syndicate, November 27, 2014 (China section)
Henry Foy, Outside Forces Likely to Weigh on Poland, Financial Times, November 27, 2014 (Emerging Europe)
Ian Mills, With Reforms China's Xi Seeks Course Correction, Not Power Grab, World Politics Review, November 26, 2014 (China section)
Andrew Walker, Whatever Happened to the BRICS Economies? BBC, November 26, 2014 (overview emerging economies section)
Does Nigeria's GDP Rebasing Suggest a Power Shift in Africa, May 20, 2014 (Africa section)
RGE Is President xi and Deng or a Mao? November 27, 2014 (China section)
Asian Development Bank, Oil Security Issues in Asia and the Pacific, July 2014 (Asia section)
IMF, Soaring of the Gulf Falcons: Diversification in the GCC Oil Exporters in Seven Propositions, September 2014 (Middle East Section)
Stephen Roach, China's Monetary-Policy Surprise, Project Syndicate, November 22, 2014 -- floor on 7% growth (Asia section)
Nathaniel Flammery, To Sooth Investors, Mexico's Pena Nieto Must Tackle Graft, WPR November 24, 2014 (Latin America)
Christopher Mlattman, Show them the Money: Why Giving Cash Helps Alleviate Poverty, Foreign Affairs (May/June 2014) (Development Theory)
Jonathan Tepperman, Pact for Progress: A Conversation with Enrique Pena Nieto, Foreign Affairs (January/February 2014) (Latin Amercia)
Marcus Noland, South Korea: The Backwater that Boomed, Foreign Affairs January/February 2014 (Asia section)
Shannon O'neil, Mexico: Viva las Reformas (Foreign Affairs january February 2014 (Latin America)
Jake Kendall, The Mobile Finance Revolution: How Cell Phones Can Spur Development (Foreign Affairs, March/April 20140 (Africa section)
Bjorn Lomborg, Promises to Keep: Crafting Better Development Goals, Foreign Affairs November/December 2014 (Developing Countries section)
John Knight, China as a Developmental State, The World Economy 2014 (Asia section)
Jonathan Ostry and Andrew Berg, Measure to Measure, Finance & Development, September 2014 -- measuring inequality (Data Section)
John Page, Africa's Failure to Industrialize: Bad Luck or Bad Policy, Brookings, November 20, 2014 (Africa section)
Alfredo Assd-Filho, the Rise of the South: Global Convergence at Last? New Political Economy, 2014 (growth theory section)
Knowledge@Wharton, How China's economy can Weather a Long, Slow Fall, November 18, 2014 (Asia section)
Jonathan Woetzel, Dragon Net: China's Next Economic Miracle, foreign Affairs, November 17, 2014 (Asia section)
Lucy Baker, The Political Economy of Energy Transitions: The Case of South Africa New Political Economy 2014 (Africa section)
Nicoli Nattrass, A South African Variety of Capitalism? New Political Economy April 2013 (Africa section)
Daniel Runde and Conor Savoy, The Economic Impact of the Ebola Outbreak (CSIS Global Forecast 2015) (Africa Section
ADB, Government Spending and Inclusive Growth in Developing Asia, November 2014 (Asia)
Eduardo Leon, Mexico's Manufacturing Cost Competitiveness: A Rising Global Star, Boston Consulting Group, August 2014 (Latin America section)
Dani Rodrik, Mexico's Growth Problem, Project Syndicate, November 13, 2014 (Latin America section)
Mexico's Growing Crisis: Reforms and Democracy, but no Rule of Law, Economist, November 15, 2014 (Latin America section)
Galip Kemal Ozhan, the Growth Debate Redux, Think Tank 20 October 2014 (very good -- growth theory section)
Ali-Al-Sadiq, Economic Convergence in Saudi Arabia, Think Tank 20, October 2014 (Middle East Section)
Hafez Ghanem, Growth and Convergence in the Arab Region, Think Tank 20, October 2014 (Middle East section)
Guillermo Ortiz, The Challenges to Achieving Sustainable Growth in Latin America, Think Tank 20, October 2014 (Latin America Section)
Miguel Kiguel, Argentina: A Case of Reverse Convergence, Think Tank 20, October 2014 (Latin American Section)
Ernesto Talvi, Latin America's Decade of Development-less Growth, Think Tank 20, October 2014 (Latin America Section)
W. Lim, Korea: From Rapid, shared Growth to Slow Unshared Growth? Think Tank 20, October 2014 (Asia Section)
Yoshio Okubo, Japan: Defining Exit From Deflation, Think Tank 20, ctober 2014 (Asia Section)
Maria Wihardja, Growth Convergence and Income Distribution: A View from Indonesia, Think Tank 20 October 2014 (Asia Section)
Timothy Besley and torsten Persson, Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2014
Rakesh Mohan and Muneesh Kapur, Secular Stagnation: Can India Buck the Trend? Think Tank 20, October 2014 (South Asia section)
Yang Yao, A New Normal, but with Robust Growth: China's Growth Prospects in the Next 10 Years, Think tank 20, October 2014 (Asia section)
Montek Ahluwalia, Economic Growth in Asia: Performance and Prospects, Think Tank 20, October 2014 (Asia section)
Haroon Bhorat and Alan Hirsh, South Africa: Perspectives on Divergence and Convergence, Think tank 20, October 2014 (Africa Section)
Amadou Sy, Is Africa at a Historical Crossroads to Convergence? Think Tank 20, October 2014 (Africa section)
Kemal Dervis and Homi Khares, Growth Convergence and Income Distribution: An Introduction, Think Tank 20 2014 (Introduction to Emerging Economies)
Brian Caplen, Time for the BRIC to become BRICKs, The Banker, November 10, 2014 Kazakhstan (Central Asia Section)
Michael O'Syullivan and Stevano Natella, Small Countries' Big Successes, Project Syndicate September 19, 2014 (smaller emerging economies)
Andres Velasco, The Third Way's Second Chance, Project Syndicate, September 30, 2014
Dani Rodrik, Are Services the New Manufacturers? Project Syndicate October 13, 2014 questions convergence (introduction to emerging economies section)
Ricardo Lagos, Latin America's Climate Vanguard, Project Syndicate November 3, 2014
Michael Spence, Growth in the New Climate Economy, Project Syndicate, october 31, 2014
Aid to the Rescue: New Research Suggests that Development Aid does foster growth -- but at what cost? The Economist, August 16, 2014
Goldilocks Nationalism: The size and homogeneity of a country's population has a big bearing on its economic polcies., The Economist, September 27, 2014
Economic Convergence: Ten years ago developing countries were catcing up with developed ones remarkably quickly. It was an aberration, The Economist September 13, 2014 (very good introduction to emerging economies section)
Brazil's Economy: After the election, the reckoning, The Economist, November 8, 2014 (Latin America Section)
Unplugged and Unproductive: Chinese Business has been slow to embrace the internet. As it does, productivity should soar, The Economist July 25, 2014
World renowed economist Nouriel Roubini predicts bright future to Kazakhstan (November 8, 2014) Central Asia
Branko Milavovic, A Balance Sheet of the Transition to Capitalism (the Globalist, November 7, 2014) eurasia section
John Rathbone, The Party is Ending for Latin America, financial times October 30, 2014 (Latin America section)
Mary O'Grady, The Chile Miracle Goes in Reverse, Wall Street Journal, November 2, 2014 (Latin America Section)
Mary O'Grady, Brazil Sticks With Statism, The Wall Street Journal, October 26, 2014 (Latin America)
Nicolas Spiro, Dilma's Smoke, Modi's Mirrors: From India to Bazil to Indonesia, getting emerging market economies in order is going to be a lot harder than investors want to believe, Foreign Policy November 7, 2014 (introduction to emerging economies section)
Mark Magnier and Bob Davis, China's Slowdown Raises Pressure on Beijing to Spur Growth: China's Economy Expanded slowest pace in five years Wall Street Journal October 21, 2014 (Asia section)
Andrei Schlifer and Daniel Treisman, Normal Countries: The East 25 Years After Communism, foreign Affairs, November/December 2014 (Eurasia section)
Ricardo Hausmann, The Economics of Inclsion, Project Syndicate, November 7, 2014 (very good emerging economies overview)
Jude Webber, Pena Nieto's Attempt to rewrite Meico's Grisly Script-- changing course on law and order (Financial Times, November 6, 2014) Latin America section
Richard Feinberg, The Cuban Economy: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities, Brookings, November 6, 2014 (Latin American section)
Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Africa is on time, Journal of Economic Growth 2014 (-very good Africa section)
As Emerging Economies hit Hard Times, Brazil and Russia Look Particularly Weak, The Economist, November 8, 2014 (Latin America section)
Oxford Analytica, Population May Outstrip Cereal Yields, October 6, 2014 (historical theories section)
Arvind Subramanian, India Must Reverse its Deindustrialization, Peterson Institute for International Economics, May 2014 (South Asia Section)
Asian Development Bank, Fiscal Policy and Growth in Developing Asia, October 2014 (Asia section)
Simon Mundy, South Korea: Sparks Fly over the Chaebol: Investors have trained their focus on the unchallenged family control and complex structures of the country's largest companies, Financial times, November 2, 2014 (Asia section),
Willian Easterly, Think Again: Debt Relief, Foreign Policy, December 2001
African Governance Under Scrutiny, African Business, December 2013 (Africa section)
Stephen Broadberry and Leigh Gardner, Africa's Growth Prospects in a European Mirror: A Historical Perspective, University of Warwick, September 2013 (very good use for sure -- Africa section)
Luke Smolinski, The Problem with Africa? Too Elizabethan, Financial Times, October 1, 2013 summary of 20 above (use in Africa section)
MINT Countries: Next Economic Giants, BBC, January 5, 2014 (introduction to emerging economies)
John Page, Aid, Employment, and Poverty Reduction in Africa, WIDER Working Paper 2014 (Africa section)
World Bank, Infrastructure, Growth and Inequality: An Overview, September 2014 MIGHT BE GOOD FOR UGANDA PAPER
John Rathbone, The Party is Ending for Latin America, Financial Times, October 30, 2014 (Latin America Section)
Special Report: Iran -- The Revolution is Over, The Economist November 1, 2014 (Middle East section)
Jan-Albert Hoosten, As Climate Changes, Central America Lags on Improving Food Security, World Politics Review, October 30, 2014
Martin Feldstein, Mexico's Powerful Energy Reforms, Project Syndicate, October 28, 2014 (Latin America section)
Boston Consulting Group (GCG), The Shifting Economics of Global Manufacturing: How Cost Competitiveness is Changing World Wide 2014 (emerging economies overview section)
Christopher Sabatini, Latin America Tiger? Can Panama Get Expansion Right? World Politics Review, October 16, 2014
Keyu Jin, China's Vicious Growth Circle, Project Syndicate, October 16, 2014 -- China's Skewed Growth Model (very good Asia section)
Jan Rudengren and Lars Rylander, Overcoming the Midde Income trap, Institute for Security and Development Policy October 22, 2014 (emerging economy overview)
Thomas Carothers and Saskia Brechenmacher, Accountability, Transparency Participation and Inclusion: A New Development Consensus, Carnegie 2014 (overview emerging economies)
Christian Ulrichsen, Gulf States Gamble on ambitious but Risky Mega-Projects, World Politics Review October 14, 2014 (middle East section)
Avinash Persuaud, The Entrepreneurial State and Innovation Economy, Peterson Institute of International Economics, September 27, 2014 (schumpeter section)
Fred McMahon, Institutions and Economic Political and Civil Liberty in the Arab World: The Prospect for Economic Reform in the Wake of the Arab Spring, Frasier Economic Freedom of the World 2014 (Middle East Section)
Can India's Manufacturing Sector Grow Under the current Government? East Asia Forum, September 24, 2014 (South Asia section)
Denarto Dennis, The Beatitudesof Poverty Alleviation: An Enduring Formula for Sustainable Development, Jamaica Observer, September 21, 2014 (Africa section)
Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian, Aid, Dutch Disease and Manufacturing Growth, Journal of Development Economics December 2009 (Africa section)
Aart Kraay and David McKenzie Do Pverty Traps Exist? Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2014 (Development Economics Theory section)
Rafael La Porta and AndreiShleifer, Informality and Development, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2014 (Informal Economy -- Economic development section
Chang-Tai Hsieh and Banjamin Olken, The Missing "Missing Middle" Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2014 -- size distribution of firms
Douglas Gollin, The Lewis Model: A 60 Year Retrospective, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2014 (development theory section)
William Kerr et al., Entrepreneurship as Experimentation, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2014 (Schumpeter section)
Edmund Phelps, Corporatism not Capitalism is to Blame for Inequality, financial times, July 24, 2014 (Schumpeter section)
Vikram Nehru, Thailand Unraveling, Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter 2014 (Asia section)
Jonathan Morduch, How Microfinance Really Works, Milken Institute Review, Second quarter 2013 (south asia section)
IMF, What is Behind Latin America's Declining Income Inequality? July 2014 (Latin America section -- very good)
Kemal Dervis, The Great Income Divide, Project Syndicate July 18, 2014 (Marx part of class)
Piketty Fever: Bigger then Marx, The Economist, May 3, 2014 (Marx section)
Picking Holes in Piketty, The Economist, May 31, 2014 (Marx section)
Eduardo Porter, Old Forecast of Famine May Yet Come True, NYT April 1, 2014 (classical theory part of class)
John Kay, Drizzle Alone Will not Provide Path to Prosperity, Financial Times, May 27, 2014 (development theory part of class -- very good)
Ian Birrell, The Folly of the 0.7% Foreign-Aid Solution, WSJ, Julyu 9, 2014 (Africa section)
IMF, Growth: Now and Forever? July 2014 (empirical section)
Oxford Analytica, Emerging Markets Face Reform Barriers June 12, 2014 (Porter section)
John Burn-Murdoch, the Fragile Middle: Millions Face Poverty as Emerging Economies Slow, Financial Tines, April 13, 2014 (porter section)
Tyler Cowen, Capital Punishment: Why a Global Tax on Wealthj Won't End Inequality -- Review Piketty, Foreign Affairs May/June 2014 (Marx section)
Edward Hugh Secular Stagnation Part 1 Paul Krugman's Bicycling Problem, EconoMonitor, June 6, 2014 (Hansen section)
Daniel Altman, Please Do Not Teach this Woman to Fish Foreign Policy, June 10, 2014 (entrepreneurship -- schumpeter)
Eduardo Porter, At the UN a Free-for-All on Setting Global Goals, NYT, May 6, 2014 (economic development section)
Lawrence Markowiz, Why Flimsy States Don't Fail, Foreign Affairs April 28, 2014 (Eurasia Section)
Chonira Aturupane, Despite tenacity of Corruption, Policy Interventions Have Made Significant Inroads, World Politcs Review, April 24, 2014 (governance section)
IMF, India: Defining and Explaining Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction, April 2014 (South Asia section)
Iftekhar Chowdhury, Foundations of Bangladesh's Economic Development: Politics of Aid, Institute of South Asian Studies, April 2014 (South Asia section)
Ross Douthat, Marx Rises Again -- Piketty's Book, NYT, April 19, 2014
Dani rodrik, The Growing Divide Within Developing Economies, Project Syndicate, April 11, 2014 -- productivity differentials beetween large and small firms -- premature industrialization (very good, dualism part of class)
Caroline Freund and Melise Juad, Regime Change, Democracy and Growth, Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 2014 -- impact of regime change/democratization on growth
Stan Gray, "Social Capital" is a local asset worth Updating, The Post and Courier, April 1, 2014 (growth theory part of class)
IMF, Sustaining long run growth and Macroeconomic stability in Low income countries -- the role of structural transformation and diversification: Background Notes, March 2014 -- mainly regression results
Asian Development Bank, Income Distributions, Inequality, and Poverty in Asia, 1992-2010 -- empirical
Africa: Poor Countries Denied Chance to Succeed, Voice of America, 2014 -- Schumpeter's ideas applied to Africa -- schumpeter section
John Norris, In Defense of the Handout: Are conditional cash transfers really the silver bullet to raising countries out of poverty? Foreign Policy March 24, 2014 development strategy section
CRS, China's Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the United States, December 17, 2013
James Hookway, Slumping Fertility Rates in Developing Countries Spark Labor Worries, WSJ, March 19, 2014 (Classical theory section)
Sergei Guriev, Russia is Not a Place You would want to do Business -- Investment Risk and Corruption, Financial times, June 30, 2014 (Eurasia section)
Michael Spence, Overshooting in Emerging Markets, Project Syndicate February 20, 2014 -- middle income trap Porter section
Johathan Wheatley, Emerging Markets: While the Sun Shone -- Only a few developing nations have used their boom years to enact crucia structural reforms.This failure to pursue change has worried investors, Financial Times October 21, 2013 -- Stage Theory section
Ruchir Sharma, The Ironies of India's Economic Crisis: Lenders blame their woes on the receding tide of easy money, Financial Times, August 25, 2013 (south Asia section)
Bangladesh Development: Country as been surprisingly good at improving the livest of the poor, The Economist November 3, 2012 (south Asia section)
China: Financial Reform: Can China feel its way across the turbulent waters of financial reform? The Economist, January 5, 2013 (Asia section)
Innovation Pessimism: Idea that innovation and new technology have stopped driving growth is getting increasing attention. But it is not well founded, The Economist January 13, 2013 (-- very good growth theory part of class)
Middle Income Claptrap: Do countries get trapped between poverty and prosperity? The Economist, February 16,2014 Porter section
India's Demographic Challenge: India will soon have a fifth of the world's workingage population. It urgently needs to provide them with better jobs, The Economist, May 11, 2013 (south Asia section)
Emerging Economies: When Giants Slow down: The most dramatic and disruptive period of emerging-market growth the world has ever seen is coming to a close, Economist, July 27, 2013 (introduction section)
Inequality v growth: up to a point, redistributing income to fight inequality can lift growth, The Economist, March 1, 2014
development controversies section
Stagnant Thinking: An Old Ecplanation of economic drift gains a new following The Economist December 7, 2013 (Hanson section)
Anders Aslund, Now the BRICs Party is Over, They Must Wind Down the State's role, Financial Times, August 22, 2013 (Porter section)
William Easterly, The New Tyranny: how development experts have empowered dictators and helped to trap millions and millions of people in poverty Foreign Policy March 10, 2014 (Africa section)
IMF, treating Inequality with Redistributon: Is th ecure Worse than these Disease, February 26, 2014 (development controversies)
Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Argentina: Myth of a Century of Decline, EconoMonitor, February 27, 2014 (Latin America Section)
Joel Mokyr, A review essay on Edmund Phelps's Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge and Change, Journal of Economic Literature 2014 (problems with capitalism section)
Loren Brandt et al., From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History Behond China's Economic Boom, Journal of Economic Literature 2014 79 pages, sweeping history of China's economic progress
Victor Mallet, Bangladesh: Pinned Back by Politics: The toxic political culture harms efforts to lift Bangladesh out of Poverty, Financial Times, August 5, 2013 south Asia section,
David Pilling, The Benefits and Perils of Riding China's Coat Tails, Financial Times, July 31, 2013 (Latin American Section)
Demetn Sevastopulo, China: Delta Blues: Shoppers will have to pay more as the world's factor comes under wage and labor strain, Financial Times, January 22, 2014 (Asia section)
Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, Latin America Stops Dancing to the Populist Beat, Financial Times, February 25, 2014 (Latin America)
Suchir Sharma, To See the Problems of Emerging Markets Look to Turkey: It is usually smart locals not foreign speculators who get out first, Financial Times, March 2, 2014 (Eurasia section)
Amy Kazmin, India Risks Squandering Advantage as it Faces Urban Jobs Crunch, -- slow growth threatens creation of work in the cities Financial Times, January 15, 2014
Robin Wigglesworth, Finance: In search of a better bailout: proposals to overhaul soveresign debt restructuring are raising fears of unintended consequences, Financial Times, January 26, 2014
William Easterly, Western vanities that do little to help the world's poor: Bill Gates overstates foreign aid's contribution to the poorest regions, Financial Times January 24, 2014 (Africa section)
Chris Giles, China: Slower, but Steady: Growth still contributes more to global demand than that of any other economy, but rebalancing will create winners and losers, Financial Times, July 23, 2013 Asia section
George Friedman, Recognizing the End of the Chinese Economic Miracle, Stratfor, July 23, 2013 (very good, China section)
The Huge -- and Often Hidden Csts of Criminality in Latin America, Knowledge@Wharton, February 28, 2014 (Latin American section)
Wilson Center, Pakistan's Urbanization, February 2014 -- summary of larger report, February 2014 south Asia section
Stephen Roach, China's Growth Puzzle, Project Syndicate February
Yichuan Wang, China's Latest Growing Pain, Milken Institute Review, first Quarter 2014 -- regional inequality
CSIS, The Costs of Corruption: Strategies for Ending a Tax on Private-Sector led Growth, February 2014
Asia Development Bank, Rising Inequality in Asia and Policy Implications, February 2014
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