Reviewing 2016: Future Development forecasts economics better than soccer (Shanta Devarajan, Wolfgang Fengler, Homi Kharas, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2016/12/21/reviewing-2016-future-development-forecasts-economics-better-than-soccer/

What to do when politics is “the problem” (Shanta Devarajan, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2016/09/15/what-to-do-when-politics-is-the-problem/

The paradox of higher education in MENA (Shanta Devarajan, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/06/27-paradox-of-higher-education-middle-east-north-africa-devarajan

How the Middle East and North Africa can benefit from low oil prices (Shanta Devarajan, Brookings)

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a region of extremes. It has the highest unemployment rate in the developing world, with the rate for women and young people double the average. Its economies are among the least diversified, with the Herfindahl index—a measure of the concentration of exports in a few commodities—ranging between 0.6 and 1 for most countries. The region had the highest number of electricity cuts per month. The ratio of public- to private-sector workers is the highest in the world. While, until recently, the region had been averaging 4-5 percent GDP growth, that average masked a highly volatile growth path.

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Forecasting 2016: It’s complicated (Shanta Devarajan, Wolfgang Fengler, Homi Kharas, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/01/07-forecasting-2016-devarajan-fengler-kharas