Restructuring Debt in the Dark (Ricardo Hausmann, Mark Walker, Project-Syndicate)

As the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank begin in Washington, DC, one member country is conspicuously absent: Venezuela. Yet there is much to be discussed about the country’s finances. Indeed, a sovereign-debt crisis is inevitable.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/debt-restructuring-perils-for-venezuela-by-ricardo-hausmann-and-mark-walker-2-2016-10

Trump’s Foreign Admirers (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/economic-harm-of-immigration-restriction-by-ricardo-hausmann-2016-08

Through the Venezuelan Looking Glass (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/venezuela-destructive-belief-systems-by-ricardo-hausmann-2016-08

Football, Brexit, and Us (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/brexit-power-of-national-identity-by-ricardo-hausmann-2016-06

Overdosing on Heterodoxy Can Kill You (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

Ever since the 2008 financial crisis, it has been common to chastise economists for not having predicted the disaster, for having offered the wrong prescriptions to prevent it, or for having failed to fix it after it happened. The call for new economic thinking has been persistent – and justified. But all that is new may not be good, and that all that is good may not be new

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/heterodox-economics-venezuela-collapse-by-ricardo-hausmann-2016-05

Faulty Political Narratives (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

Across Latin America, voters who, until recently, were enthusiastic about their leftist governments seem to be having a change of heart. In Brazil and Venezuela, voters want to oust their leaders. In Argentina, they already have. In Bolivia, voters rejected President Evo Morales’s effort to amend the constitution so that he could seek another presidential term. And in Peru, no left-wing candidate made it into the second round of the presidential election, to be held on June 5.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/latin-america-losing-leftist-governments-by-ricardo-hausmann-2016-05

Learning Without Theory (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

How can we improve the state of the world? How can we make countries more competitive, growth more sustainable and inclusive, and genders more equal?

Continue reading here ...

The Problem With Evidence-Based Policies (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

Many organizations, from government agencies to philanthropic institutions and aid organizations, now require that programs and policies be “evidence-based.” It makes sense to demand that policies be based on evidence and that such evidence be as good as possible, within reasonable time and budgetary limits. But the way this approach is being implemented may be doing a lot of harm, impairing our ability to learn and improve on what we do.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/evidence-based-policy-problems-by-ricardo-hausmann-2016-02

Should Business Travel Be Obsolete? (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-travel-for-business-by-ricardo-hausmann-2016-01

Stopping Venezuela’s Harvest of Sorrow (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/venezuela-maduro-economic-collapse-by-ricardo-hausmann-2015-12

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) The Diaspora Goldmine (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/remittances-not-only-benefit-to-homeland-economies-by-ricardo-hausmann-2015-06