Economist

S. Brock Blomberg

Economist

Guy Hutton

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Feed the Kids and Watch Nations Grow

Read our op-ed in The Australian on how effective goal setting can improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids in South East Asia and the Pacific.

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Post-2015 Consensus

In 2015, the UN's Millennium Development Goals are expiring and the international community will set new goals. The Post-2015 Consensus brings together the world’s top economists, NGOs, international agencies and bu...

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Economist

Barry Eichengreen

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Economy

Financial instability can have significant effects on economic growth. It afflicts primarily countries in the process of economic development, which are vulnerable to instability and unable to cope with the consequ...

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Infrastructure

Access to basic infrastructure services – roads, ports, electricity, water and sanitation – still remains a key challenge in the fight against poverty and the search for sustainable growth in many regions.

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Population Growth

Current ‘high fertility’ countries account currently for about 38% of the 78 million persons that are added annually to the world population, despite composing only 18% of the current population. After 2060, world p...

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Natural Disasters

Even the most wealth and well prepared countries can experience large-scale damage and destruction when natural disasters strike. The situation is much worse in low-income countries since they often do not have the ...

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