Oil-spill economics: How Ghana can succeed
Ghana is about to become a major oil producer. The country’s newfound oil is expected to bring in many billions […]
Skating on thin ice?
In Preludes to the Icelandic Financial Crisis, ritstj. Robert Z. Aliber og Gylfi Zoega.
Dayton’s unfinished business
With Per Wijkman. Fifteen years after the Dayton Peace Accords, unresolved conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina have deadlocked its political […]
Economic integration as a Balkan peace project
With Per Wijkman. With the end of the Balkan conflicts in the late 1990s, the EU and the US set […]
Growing together: Croatia and Latvia
With Eduard Hochreiter. Croatia and Latvia both gained independence in the early 1990s. This column tracks their progress since. It […]
Trade in loot
With Per Wijkman. Since discovering oil in 1990, Equatorial Guinea has experienced massive growth that multiplied its GDP per capita […]
Natural resource endowment: A mixed blessing?
Í Beyond the Curse: Policies to Harness the Power of Natural Resources, ritstj. Rabah Arezki, Þorvaldur Gylfason og Amadou Sy, […]
When life imitates art: Mel Brooks and the bankers
Mel Brooks and the bankers
In Mel Brooks’ hit film and Broadway musical The Producers, those charged with making their musical a success instead try […]
Iceland’s special investigation: The plot thickens
What brought down Iceland’s banks? This column examines the revelations from the latest report from the Icelandic parliament, raising the […]