Archive for January 19th, 2016

Comparing the monetary policy responses to the crisis by the Fed and the ECB

January 19, 2016

Dae Woong Kang, Nick Ligthart and Ashoka Mody compare the responses.

In most such analyses, we find Fed did a better job than ECB. This one too says the same:

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Making World Bank more relevant in today’s times…

January 19, 2016

Ngaire Woods (Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government) has a nice piece on future of World Bank, one of the Bretton Woods institution. The other one – IMF got a new lease of life during this crisis. But World Bank continues to flounder:

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What Bangladesh can teach India about toilet training?

January 19, 2016

As India pumps its chest over it being the country with the highest growth rate, it has little to show in things that eventually matter. Infact, it is really strange that despite being a high growing country for more than 2 decades, its social rankings remain poor. And smaller countries with much lesser growth rates show much better performance amidst much lesser fanfare.

This story about Bangledesh becoming free from open defecation is an inspiring one. This story about Bangladesh is not actually anything new. Economists have pointed how the small east based country has beaten India in the past as well over things that matter:

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