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The State of the Poor: Where Are The Poor, Where Is Extreme Poverty Harder to End, and What Is the Current Profile of the World’s Poor? – Pedro Olinto, Kathleen Beegle, Carlos Sobrado, and Hiroki Uematsu, October 2013 “Although the world witnessed an unprecedented pace of poverty reduction over the last decades, reducing the number …
“The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on September 17-18, 2013. The minutes for each regularly scheduled meeting of the Committee ordinarily are made available three weeks after the day of the policy decision and subsequently are published in the Board’s …
Via GovDocs Listserv: “Just thought I’d give this group a heads-up about what’s going on with LOCKSS-USDOCS (http://lockss-usdocs.stanford.edu) and the government shutdown. I talked with Mary Alice Baish as soon as I heard about the possibility of a shutdown. She basically told me the same thing as what was in the GPO the press release …
World Economic Outlook Database, October 2013 “The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff’s analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups and in many individual countries. The WEO is released …
Nearly everyone on the list is striving to reinvent her business. Meet a group of executives who don’t sit still. “The Most Powerful Women in Business list is compiled by FORTUNE editors, who consider four criteria: the size and importance of the woman’s business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business, …
“Believe or not, but hundreds of thousands of federal employees missing work may prove to be just the beginning of the 2013 government shutdown story. Not only will the economy incur exponentially more damage the longer the shutdown lasts, but as logistical limitations mount and already-appropriated funds run dry, the personal stories of hardship and …
The Unpunishable Moral Failures that Helped Cause the Financial Crisis, and How to Address Them in the Future by Hilary J. Allen Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, October 6, 2013 “Five years after the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the public is still angry that the big financial institutions (and their senior managers) have …
Two Concepts of Corruption, Dennis F. Thompson – Harvard University – Department of Government. August 1, 2013. “To combat institutional corruption, we need to distinguish it clearly from individual corruption. Individual corruption occurs when an institution or its officials receive a benefit that does not serve the institution and provides a service through relationships external …
World Economic Outlook (WEO) Transitions and Tensions October 2013 – Chapters 3 and 4, October 2013. “Chapter 3 explores how output comovements have evolved in recent years and how they are influenced by various shocks and linkages. It assesses the possible output spillovers from those shocks that most concern policymakers, including policy shocks, such as …
Global Financial Stability Report: A Report by the Monetary and Capital Markets Department on Market Developments and Issues, Last Updated Wednesday, October 02 2013 “October 2013: Chapter 2 looks at efforts by policymakers to revive weak credit growth, which has been seen by many as a primary reason behind the slow economic recovery. The chapter argues that …
Brookings – Editor’s Note: In collaboration with the Financial Times (FT), Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda of Brookings have developed a set of composite indexes which track the global economic recovery. The Financial Times has produced the Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery (TIGER) interactive map, which appears on the Financial Times Web site. “The global …
Stephen D. King, chief economist at HSBC: “We are reaching end times for Western affluence. Between 2000 and 2007, ahead of the Great Recession, the United States economy grew at a meager average of about 2.4 percent a year — a full percentage point below the 3.4 percent average of the 1980s and 1990s. From …
