Publications

CEPR Spotlight: Haiti

Dawn Niederhauser / December 19, 2022

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Real Consumption Rises as Inflation Decimates People in Joe Biden’s America

Dean Baker / December 19, 2022

Article Artículo

Bolivia

Elections

Escobari and Hoover Make an Improper Comparison to 2016, Invalidating Their “Difference-in-Difference” Estimates

This is the tenth in a series of blog posts addressing a report by Diego Escobari and Gary Hoover covering the 2019 presidential election in Bolivia.

David Rosnick / December 16, 2022

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Government

Healthcare

Workers

The Little Engine That Couldn’t Have Paid Sick Leave: How US Lawmakers Let Workers’ Rights and Health Go Off the Rails

The Little Engine That Couldn’t Have Paid Sick Leave

Hayley Brown, Dylan Gyauch-Lewis and Julia Tache / December 15, 2022

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CEPR Spotlight: Disability

Dawn Niederhauser / December 14, 2022

Article Artículo

Sanctions

Spotlight

CEPR Spotlight: Sanctions

CEPR is one of the very few organizations closely monitoring the harmful impact of economic sanctions.

Dawn Niederhauser / December 13, 2022

Article Artículo

Inflation Is Falling Much Faster than Most People Know

The way inflation is looking these past five months, the Fed should take a break from its interest rate hikes before it causes the next recession.

Mark Weisbrot / December 13, 2022

Prices Byte Artículo

Inflation

Latin America and the Caribbean

Preview: What to Look for in the November CPI

Gas prices will again show a drop in November, but the biggest questions will be with the core index.

Dean Baker / December 09, 2022

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CEPR Spotlight: Private Equity

Your donation to CEPR will help us continue to speak out against the bad actors and to hold powerful PE firms accountable.

Dawn Niederhauser / December 09, 2022

report informe

Putting Climate at the Core of IMF Governance

This paper proposes a necessary update to the IMF’s voting formula by adding a variable representing member states’ shares of cumulative CO2 emissions since 1944.

Andrés Arauz, Lola Allen and Ivana Vasic-Lalovic / December 08, 2022

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IMF Surcharges Can Be Removed as Precautionary Balances Are Safely Within Target

With the IMF projecting a steady increase in the amount of countries that will pay surcharges, largely as a result of external economic shocks, it is the right moment for surcharges to be safely terminated.

Andrés Arauz / December 08, 2022

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CEPR Sanctions Watch, November 2022

In this edition of CEPR Sanctions Watch: the Afghan Fund meets, but relief for Afghanistan remains far as winter draws near.

Michael Galant / December 07, 2022

Article Artículo

Bolivia

Elections

The 2019 Election Is Not Directly Comparable to the 2016 Referendum

This is the ninth in a series of blog posts addressing a report by Diego Escobari and Gary Hoover covering the 2019 presidential election in Bolivia.

David Rosnick / December 06, 2022

Article Artículo

Debt

A Quick Note on That Record Low Savings Rate

While it is undoubtedly true that the savings rate has fallen by any measure, a large part of the decline is due to people paying taxes on capital gains.

Dean Baker / December 06, 2022

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Media

Spotlight

CEPR Spotlight: The Media

CEPR Co-founder and Senior Economist Dean Baker had his Twitter account, @DeanBaker13, “permanently suspended”

Dawn Niederhauser / December 06, 2022

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COVID-19

The November Jobs Report Was Not as Strong as Advertised

Taken together, the stronger than expected job growth, coupled with the big jump in wages, seems to indicate that we have a serious problem with inflation. The consensus seems to be that the Fed may have to keep the rate hikes in overdrive.

Dean Baker / December 04, 2022

Jobs Byte Artículo

Jobs

Workers

Economy Adds 263,000 Jobs in November, Unemployment Steady at 3.7 Percent

Wages grew at a 5.1 percent annual rate over the last three months.

Dean Baker / December 02, 2022

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