The Center for Economic and Policy Research

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New Report Reviews Changes in Bolivia’s Economy under Evo Morales’s Presidency

A new CEPR report finds that it has been policy choices that have been the driving force in Bolivia’s surge to be the fastest-growing economy in South America.

Is Ecuador's Austerity Crisis Over, or Just Beginning?

Ecuador's IMF program "is so deeply flawed that it is bound to cause more trouble," and "the IMF has already acknowledged that the shrinking of the Ecuadorian economy this year is a result of the budget-tightening in its program," Mark Weisbrot writes at The Nation.

Historically Slow Productivity Growth Since 2005 Hampers Wages, Profits

Workers are losing their share of the benefits from economic growth. In his new paper, CEPR Senior Economist Dean Baker examines how much the typical worker lost as a result of upward redistribution.

Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing

In this new paper, CEPR Co-Director Eileen Applebaum, with Cornell University’s Rosemary Batt explain how hospital outsourcing and private equity-owned physician staffing companies drive up health care costs, insurance premiums, and the surge of surprising medical bills.