Publications

Now Would Be a Good Time for the IMF to Do Away with Unfair and Unnecessary Surcharges

World Bank

Doing away with the unnecessary, unfair, and counterproductive surcharges tacked onto IMF lending is one of the easiest steps the Fund could take to help hard-hit countries in their hour of need.

Dan Beeton and Shereen Talaat / 04/22/2022 12:00am

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Brazil

Latin America and the Caribbean

A Unasul deve ser retomada?

Brasil tem grande interesse geopolítico para maior integração entre oceanos

Guillaume Long / 04/22/2022 12:00am

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Private Equity

Wall Street

Comment Letter in Response to the FTC and DOJ’s Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF), joined by the Center for Economic Policy and Research, and United for Respect, sent a comment letter responding to the FTC and DOJ’s request for information on merger enforcement.

CEPR / 04/21/2022 12:00am

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Globalization and Trade

Special Drawing Rights: The Right Tool to Use to Respond to the Pandemic and Other Challenges

Evidence from the Recent $650 Billion Allocation of Special Drawing Rights Shows Countries Made Social and Economic Gains, Supports An Additional Allocation in the Near Future

Kevin Cashman, Andrés Arauz and Lara Merling / April 20, 2022

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Intellectual Property

Corruption in Drug Patents: Take Away the Money

It’s great to see the New York Times recognize the abuses of the patent system. It would be even better if it opened its pages to discussion of alternative mechanisms for financing innovation.

Dean Baker / 04/18/2022 12:00am

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Repealing Section 230 to Downsize Facebook and Twitter

There is no good reason that Internet intermediaries should be exempt from the same sort of liability for spreading defamatory statements as print or broadcast media.

Dean Baker / 04/16/2022 12:00am

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The Wall Street Journal Doesn’t Have Access to Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

So, where does the Wall Street Journal see its millions of missing workers?

Dean Baker / 04/16/2022 12:00am

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Argentina

Ecuador

Latin America and the Caribbean

The Gendered Impacts of the IMF’s Harmful Surcharges Policy

The IMF’s launch of its much-publicized new gender strategy, while its surcharge policy remains intact, should be seen for what it is: hypocrisy.

CEPR and Christina Laskaridis / 04/15/2022 12:00am

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Fighting Inflation the Fun Way: Starting at the Top

Intellectual Property

If we want to reduce inflationary pressures there are a whole set of policies that would lower the incomes of people at the top of the income ladder. Unfortunately, we are not likely to go this route.

Dean Baker / 04/14/2022 12:00am

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Coronavirus

US Foreign Policy

Righting the Record: Claims that SDRs “Help US Enemies” Are Baseless

Sanctioned countries like Russia have not, and almost certainly, will not be able to use their SDRs.

Michael Galant / 04/14/2022 12:00am

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Correcting the NYT: Excluding Gasoline, Retail Sales FELL in March

Contrary to the picture presented by the headline, the data released by the Commerce Department today suggest a rapidly slowing economy.

Dean Baker / 04/14/2022 12:00am

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High Gas Prices Are Donald Trump’s Fault

According to Trump, he worked out a deal where OPEC producers would all agree to reduce their output.

Dean Baker / 04/14/2022 12:00am

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If Wage Growth Is Driving Inflation, Why Is Workers’ Share of Income Falling?

It is very hard to make the wage-price spiral inflation story from the 1970s fit the current situation for a simple reason: the wage share of income has fallen sharply since the pandemic.

Dean Baker / 04/13/2022 12:00am

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