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August 26, 2013

International Organizations
Jackson Hole: Future Worries

This year’s Jackson Hole Federal Reserve conference was a decidedly low-key affair given Ben Bernanke’s absence (and Janet Yellen’s successful effort to not make news). Nonetheless, there look to hav…

February 10, 2015

India
What the Delhi Elections Mean for Indian Foreign and International Economic Policy (Not Much, Yet)

Delhi voters just elected—by a landslide—the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to lead their state assembly. What’s more, the chief minister will again be quirkily charismatic Arvind Kejriwal, who led the new an…

AAP_Delhi_elections

January 8, 2013

Education
Globalization and Rising Inequality: A Big Question and Lousy Answers

While freer trade makes everyone collectively richer, the impacts are unequal. There are winners and losers, and even among the winners there are some who gain a great deal and some who gain very lit…

A coordinator at Bread for the City food pantry in Washington, DC fills up a bag of food to distribute (Jim Young/Courtesy Reuters).

March 12, 2014

India
Indian Politics: From Identity to Governance

This post is part of a series on the Indian elections. In the fall of 1990, I got off an Air India flight and landed in Delhi for the first time. I was taking part in a college semester abroad progr…

Election Commission of India

December 9, 2013

India
Indian State Elections Raise Questions About 2014

The results of four of the five state-level elections conducted in India over the past month were announced on Sunday, December 8. (Results from the smaller northeastern state of Mizoram were announc…

Supporters of Kejriwal, leader of the newly formed Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party, hold brooms, the party's symbol, after Kejriwal's election win against Delhi's CM Dikshit, in New Delhi