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Research highlights

Did China Free-Ride After Debt Relief? Lessons from the HIPC Experience

Over the past decade, developing countries have, once again, turned out in debt distress. Debt service levels  now approach those recorded in the late 1990s...

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Sudan at the Edge: What Went Wrong?

“Why a country once on the brink of democratic renewal now faces state collapse — and what it will take to reverse course” Sudan did...

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Dutch disease: An economic illness easy to catch, difficult to cure

What a persistently low oil price does to oil-rich countries is like what a long, cold winter does to people. It makes many of them...

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Two reasons why rentier states would adopt universal basic income

While others have advocated for universal basic income (UBI) to address problems in the labor market or to replace inefficient and inequitable subsidies, my co-authors and I make...

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Trade wars and trade laws

Trade policy has recently been rediscovered as a foreign policy instrument that can, at least in theory, deliver non-trade results. Tariffs and sanctions are increasingly...

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