The Day After Tomorrow. Designing COVID-19 Bailouts for a Sustainable Recovery
Agustin Redonda | 4 May 2020
Blog,
Fiscal,
Monetary | Tags:
Bailouts,
Climate Change,
Covid-19,
Employment,
Inequality Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to mitigate the economic fallout of COVID-19. Their decisions in the weeks and months ahead will shape our lives for years to come. The fiscal packages that are being adopted as well as the funding that central
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The Low-Skill Losers
Karen Petrou | 30 April 2019
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Employment,
Federal Reserve,
Inequality,
QE The Fed is devoting increasing analytical – if not yet policy-maker – attention to the unequalizing impact of unconventional policy. It’s a start – a major problem besetting central banks in countries without a robust middle class – i.e., the U.S. – is that
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International Economic Cooperation in Troubled Times: A Call for Strong Action by the G20
Axel Berger,
Uri Dadush,
Andreas Freytag,
Simon Evenett,
Christian von Haldenwang,
Ricardo Meléndez Ortiz,
Raúl Ochoa,
Agustin Redonda and
Karl P. Sauvant | 26 November 2018
Blog,
Fiscal,
Trade | Tags:
Employment,
G20,
Investment,
Protectionism,
Services Trade,
Tax Competition,
Tax Expenditures The leaders of the G20 will meet on 30 November and 1 December in Buenos Aires for their annual summit. They need to acknowledge that the last two years have been characterized by strong headwinds for the world economy. This time, however, it is not
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Mitigating the Adjustment Costs of International Trade
Johannes Schwarzer,
Clara Brandi,
Uri Dadush,
Peter Draper,
Andreas Freytag,
Miriam Kautz,
Peter Rashish and
Rob Vos | 3 September 2018
Policy Briefs,
Trade | Tags:
Employment The evidence demonstrating that nations gain from trade is overwhelming. However, trade liberalization can cause disruption to firms and workers, and its gains and losses are spread unevenly.
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Services Policy Reform and Manufacturing Employment: Evidence from Transition Economies
Matteo Fiorini,
Bernard Hoekman and
Clement Malgouyres | 13 September 2017
Trade,
Working Papers | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade Policy reforms targeting the services sectors are a neglected dimension of the process of structural transformation and economic development. The effects of such reforms on employment across industries as a function of their use of services as intermediate inputs are theoretically ambiguous and remain largely
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