Toward Greener Priorities: Madagascar
Joint article with Jean-Pascal N. Nganou, based on our longer paper.
Diversifying and Benchmarking Madagascar
Prepared for presentation at the Global Conference on Economic Diversification 2024 at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, Dubai, 31 […]
Principal Components of Institutions, Diversification, and Growth
This chapter aims to reassess the cross-country interplay among economic performance, natural resources, and institutions, including inequality. We now assess […]
Diversifying and Benchmarking Madagascar
Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of Madagascar, this paper begins by […]
From Cultural Capital to Growth
Makes the case for music and visual arts as an important part of economic and social development.
Three Anna Akhmatova Songs
Here are my three songs set to poems by Anna Akhmatova, the Russian poetess, one of the most important Russian […]
Mongolia
Balancing Natural Resources and Human and Social Capital Pathways to Economic Diversification in Mongolia Prepared for 23rd Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet […]
Balancing Natural Resources and Human and Social Capital: Pathways to Economic Diversification in Mongolia
Presentation of a paper co-authored by Jean-Pascal N. Nganou prepared for 23rd Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet conference in public economics, 26-28 […]
Central Banks´ Mission Creep
Here I argue that central banks need to take a broader view of their mandate to keep inflation under control. […]