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Are Leaders to Blame for Slow Growth?

Andrew Mwenda has another excellent article up on the Independent.  He argues that it isn’t helpful to blame Africa’s economic problems on bad leadership.  It may be true that Africa has had a...

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Political Business Cycles in Mexico

Kevin and I have long been interested in political business cycles in developing countries.  We have a 2000 JLE piece called Political Cycles in Non-Traditional Settings, Theory and Evidence for...

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Narcotraficantes and economic growth in Mexico

I just came across a new working paper entitled “Crime and growth convergence : evidence from Mexico” by the awesomely named Ted Enamorado and his co-authors Luis Lopez-Calva and Carlos...

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The Kinky Effects of Aid

I came across a new and interesting NBER working paper called “The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment” by  Sebastian Galiani, Stephen Knack, Ben Zou, and Lixin Colin Xu. Here’s...

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Forecasting Fail, IMF edition

h/t to @SonyKapoor for tweeting this awesome IMF figure.

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Thinking harder about globalization

I’ve been thinking recently of how little credibility economists have with working class Americans (or so it seems to me).  In some sense, I’m not surprised.  Economists did a terrible job of...

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