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Shang-Jin Wei

Shang-Jin Wei

Writing for PS since 2015
57 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

Shang-Jin Wei, a former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank, is Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. 

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  1. Measuring Corruption in China
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    Measuring Corruption in China

    Sep 21, 2023 Yongheng Deng & Shang-Jin Wei outline a novel approach to assessing the extent and scope of the country's graft problem.

  2. China Must Avoid a Debt-Deflation Spiral
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    China Must Avoid a Debt-Deflation Spiral

    Sep 4, 2023 Shang-Jin Wei urges economic policymakers to be far more aggressive in stimulating aggregate demand.

  3. Containing the Collateral Damage of America’s China Policy
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    Containing the Collateral Damage of America’s China Policy

    Jul 10, 2023 Shang-Jin Wei outlines steps that US policymakers should take to maintain global economic and geopolitical stability.

  4. A Reality Check for the Renminbi
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    A Reality Check for the Renminbi

    Apr 6, 2023 Shang-Jin Wei explains why the greenback will likely continue to reign supreme in global markets in the near term.

  5. Can China Save Its Economic Miracle?
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    Can China Save Its Economic Miracle?

    Jan 4, 2023 Shang-Jin Wei outlines the challenges facing the country as firms and households get out from under pandemic restrictions.

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    Whither the G20?

    Takatoshi Ito

    Following the latest G20 summit, the G7 should be thinking seriously about deepening its own ties with more non-aligned countries. If the Ukraine war drags on, and if China continues to threaten to take Taiwan by force, the G20 will be split between friends of the BRICS and friends of the G7.

     sees the grouping as increasingly divided between friends of the G7 and friends of China and Russia.
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    Making the Most of Africa’s Strategic Green Minerals

    Marit Kitaw explains how the continent can move beyond resource extraction to build green industry.
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    America Must Join Europe’s Climate Club

    Gary Yohe & Roger Kuhns urge US policymakers to create a carbon-pricing policy in line with the bloc’s emissions-reduction plan.
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    Measuring Corruption in China

    Yongheng Deng & Shang-Jin Wei outline a novel approach to assessing the extent and scope of the country's graft problem.
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    To Protect Democracy, Revive Local Journalism

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca identify promising new models and philanthropic initiatives geared toward supporting independent media.
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    How to Achieve Universal Cancer Care

    Sonali Johnson urges governments worldwide to include the disease in national health-insurance schemes.
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    What Climate Finance Needs

    Nouriel Roubini & Reza Bundy

    To prevent catastrophic climate change and accelerate the global transition to a net-zero economy, policymakers and asset owners urgently need to rethink how we channel capital at scale. The key is to develop new financial instruments that are profitable, liquid, and easily accessible to savers and investors globally.

     explain what it will take to channel private capital and savings toward sustainable development.
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    Down on the Biden Economy

    James K. Galbraith thinks the failure of wages to keep up with inflation explains much of the public’s dour mood.
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    The Dollar’s Full-Spectrum Dominance

    Carla Norrlöf foresees the greenback’s continued global hegemony owing to network effects and opportunism.

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