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Kenneth Rogoff

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Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the recipient of the 2011 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics. He is the co-author (with Carmen M. Reinhart) of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton University Press, 2011) and the author of the forthcoming book Our Dollar, Your Problem (Yale University Press, 2025).

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  1. Europe in Trump’s Crosshairs
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    Europe in Trump’s Crosshairs

    Jan 28, 2025 Kenneth Rogoff urges EU policymakers not to allow the new US administration to distract them from key policy priorities.

  2. Will Trump Fire the Fed?
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    Will Trump Fire the Fed?

    Jan 2, 2025 Kenneth Rogoff worries about the incoming US administration’s plans to weaken the central bank’s independence.

  3. Will the Second Trump Boom Go Bust?
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    Will the Second Trump Boom Go Bust?

    Dec 16, 2024 Kenneth Rogoff warns that, regardless of domestic policies, powerful global headwinds could impede US economic growth.

  4. Europe’s Economy Is Stalling Out
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    Europe’s Economy Is Stalling Out

    Nov 28, 2024 Kenneth Rogoff explains why the EU’s long-term economic slump is not likely to end anytime soon.

  5. Is Capitalism Really the Cause of Global Inequality?
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    Is Capitalism Really the Cause of Global Inequality?

    Oct 10, 2024 Kenneth Rogoff thinks greater economic openness is key to tackling cross-country disparities and achieving sustainability.

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    When Companies Fail to Learn, They Learn to Fail

    Ricardo Hausmann explains how the inability to identify and address knowledge gaps can doom even the most promising projects.
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    How to Make Carbon Pricing Work for Africa

    Rim Berahab & Otaviano Canuto argue that policies must be structured to facilitate, not obstruct, the continent’s shift to renewables.
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    Green Free Trade in a Protectionist Age

    Ma Jun envisions regional arrangements that facilitate the exchange of climate-friendly goods and services.
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    Egypt’s Economic Crisis May Not Be Over

    Adnan Mazarei urges the international community to push for long-overdue governance and economic reforms.
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    Climate Displacement Is Also a Health Crisis

    Jayasree K. Iyer proposes a four-pronged strategy to ensure that essential medicines reach vulnerable populations.
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    Europe in Trump’s Crosshairs

    Kenneth Rogoff

    US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House represents a grave threat to Europe’s security, economy, and clean-energy transition. The European Union’s top priority must be to find ways to reduce energy prices, even if it means recalibrating some of its green policies.

     urges EU policymakers not to allow the new US administration to distract them from key policy priorities.
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    The New Washington Consensus

    Katharina Pistor

    If a picture is worth a thousand words, the image of Big Tech founders and CEOs filling the front row at Donald Trump’s inauguration is a manifesto. We have just watched private business take over the US government in broad daylight, and history suggests that this won’t end well.

     sees no daylight remaining between US private business and the federal government.
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    Economic Development after the Washington Consensus

    Karim El Aynaoui & Hinh T. Dinh propose a new policy framework adapted to an era that has rendered the prevailing growth model obsolete.
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    Yi Fuxian on China's decision-making, economic prospects, demographic crisis, and more

    Yi Fuxian warns that China's government and mainstream analysts are still underestimating the severity of the country's demographic crisis, identifies some of the gravest policy mistakes Donald Trump's administration is at risk of making vis-a-vis China, explains why China’s middle class will never be strong enough to bring about a democratic transition, and more.

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