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La reciente emisión de $650 mil millones de derechos especiales de giro tuvo resultados sociales y económicos positivos para los países beneficiarios, y ratifican la necesidad de una emisión adicional en el futuro cercano.

Andrés Arauz, Kevin Cashman and Lara Merling / June 02, 2022

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Contrary to What You Read in the Paper, People Are Not Spending Down Their Savings

The reported decline in the saving rate is deceptive. It is more likely that people have made large gains in the stock market and are cashing out some of these gains and paying capital gains taxes on them.

Dean Baker / 06/01/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Jobs

Preview: Lower Unemployment with Moderating Wage Growth

All signs point to another good month of job growth in May; that should push the unemployment rate down to at least 3.5 percent, making it tie for the lowest rate since 1969.

Dean Baker / 06/01/2022 12:00am

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Environment

Who Cashes in After a California Wildfire?

There is no denying that climate change is going to create more jobs in the disaster-recovery industry. But whether those are jobs with strong worker protections and fair pay depends on government reassessing its role in dealing with this consequence of a

Matt Sedlar / 05/31/2022 9:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Globalization and Trade

Growth

US Foreign Policy

Will US Rate Hikes Harm Developing Countries?

This tightening of policy aims to decelerate inflation, but it carries serious downside risks.

Joe Sammut / 05/27/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Housing

Getting Rents Down, Converting Vacant Office Space to Residential

Remote work is now a fact of life. If the office space is converted to residential space, it will put downward pressure on rents more generally. This is bad news for landlords, but it will mean more money for renters.

Dean Baker / 05/27/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Growth

CBO Joins Team Transitory

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) sided clearly with those arguing the case for inflation being temporary.

Dean Baker / 05/25/2022 12:00am

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Inequality

Workers

Spotlight on Working-Class Asian American and Pacific Islander Women in the Workforce

The pandemic-fueled surge in anti-Asian violence creates a critical moment to rethink issues like occupational segregation and employment discrimination.

Julie Yixia Cai / 05/24/2022 3:00pm

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Growth

The Impediment to Productivity Growth: Waste that Makes Some People Rich

Dean Baker / 05/24/2022 12:00am

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Joe Biden Has Botched the Summit of the Americas

The United States is excluding Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from the forthcoming Summit of the Americas. Washington probably wasn’t expecting that much of Latin America, led by Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, would publicly push back in response.

Guillaume Long / 05/23/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Inflation

Two Quick Notes: Inflation and the Stock Market Plunge

Rather than seeing a story of spiraling inflation, actors in financial markets seem to be expecting that the inflation rate will quickly fall back to more moderate levels. That is worth noting.

Dean Baker / 05/23/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Inequality

Workers

Financial Struggles of Working-Class Women Reveal Potential for More Robust Family-Friendly Policy Response

This brief examines three aspects of economic security facing women in recent years: poverty, instability in working hours, and a lack of financial savings, with special attention paid to less-educated women with children.

Julie Yixia Cai and Joe Peck / May 19, 2022

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Globalization and Trade

International Monetary Fund

Surcharges

World

“Examining the Gendered and Other Impacts of IMF Surcharges” Event Transcript

“Examining the Gendered and Other Impacts of IMF Surcharges” explored the extent to which the IMF's surcharge policy is consistent with its stated commitment to gender equality and a greener, smarter, and fairer COVID-19 recovery.

Michael Galant and Aliza Khan / 05/17/2022 3:13pm

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International Monetary Fund

Surcharges

World

IMF Projects No Losses if Surcharges Are Removed

Surcharges can be removed safely without threatening the sustainability of the IMF’s finances, while helping reduce debt payments for many developing countries, thereby helping to save and improve the lives of people around the world.

Andrés Arauz and Odd Hanssen / 05/16/2022 12:00am

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Health and Social Programs

Wall Street

Trends in Real Estate Investment Trust Ownership of US Health Care Properties

Policy makers and health care operators should ensure that the REIT business model is compatible with long-term priorities in health care delivery.

Eileen Appelbaum, Joseph Dov Bruch, Tamar Katz, Tarun Ramesh, Rosemary Batt and Thomas C. Tsai / May 13, 2022

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Inequality

Poverty

A Brief Look at Low-Income Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

CEPR challenges the model minority myth that hides significant numbers within the AAPI population with low incomes that could benefit from government assistance.

Algernon Austin / 05/12/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Globalization and Trade

Growth

The Data Show Our Economy Continues to Grow Quite Nicely

The latest GDP report shows that the main components of final demand, consumption, investment and government expenditures are still growing at a healthy pace.

Dean Baker / 05/09/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Workers

Solid Month of Job Growth in April

The economy added 428,000 jobs in April, while the unemployment rate remained flat at 3.6 percent.

Hayley Brown / 05/06/2022 2:41pm

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Argentina

Brazil

Latin America and the Caribbean

World

¿Hacia una nueva Unasur?

Entre 2018 y 2019, siete gobiernos suramericanos, incluyendo el argentino, se retiraron del tratado constitutivo de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (Unasur) y le atestaron un duro golpe a la integración.

Guillaume Long / 05/05/2022 12:00am

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