Beyond the curse: Policies to harness the power of natural resources

With Rabah Arezki and Amadou Sy. The presence of natural resources poses a number of potential economic challenges, especially for […]

Growing together: Croatia and Latvia

With Eduard Hochreiter. We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]