Developing Countries

Recent Publications on Developing Countries

"Is the language of rights useful for reducing poverty?" Dec. 2023, in Making a Movement: The History and Future of Human Rights (Carr Center for Human Rights, HKS: Cambridge MA), pp. 55-56.

Resuscitating the Salter-Swan model of a small open economy,” VoxEU (CEPR), October 2023.

"How to Cope with Volatile Commodity Export Prices: Four Proposals” (pdf)  2017;  in an e-book, edited by Rabah Arezki and Raouf Boucekkine. HKS RWP17-033;  CID WP 335, 2017.

The Currency-Plus-Commodity BasketA Proposal for Exchange Rates in Oil-Exporting Countries to Accommodate Trade Shocks Automatically​,” 2018 in: Macroeconomic Institutions and Management in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, edited by K.Mohaddes, J.Nugent and H.Selim. (Oxford University Press). AbstractCID WP no  333, 2017.  Summarized in Policy Brief No. 26, June 2017, Economic Research Forum (Cairo).

"Nominal GDP Targeting for Developing Countries," with Pranjul Bhandari, 2017, Research in Economics (Elsevier vol.71, issue 3, September, pp. 491-506. Uncorrected page proofs NBER WP 20898

 "Mauritius: African Success Story,"  2016, African Successes, edited by S.Edwards, S.Johnson, & D.Weil (Univ. Chicago Press). CID WP 234. NBER WP 16569, Summarized in NBER Digest2011.  

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