The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) is a global network of leading economists, political scientists and premier academic and policy centers. Founded in 2000 by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the initiative aims to stimulate a heterodox policy dialogue on major issues in international development and global governance. Through its publications, Read more…
Is decentralisation good for development? This book offers insights and lessons that help us understand when the answer is ‘Yes’, and when it is No’. It shows us how decentralisation can be designed to drive development forward, and focuses attention on how institutional incentives can be created for governments to improve public sector performance and strengthen economies in ways that enhance citizen well-being.
This book looks critically at global governance structures in the economic and social field in order to understand what has been done and what can be done better.
Stiglitz identifies the true sources of wealth and of increases in standards of living, based on learning, advances in science and technology, and the rule of law. He shows that the assault on the judiciary, universities, and the media undermines the very institutions that have long been the foundation of America’s economic might and its democracy.
This book analyzes almost three thousand protests that occurred between 2006 and 2020 in 101 countries covering over 93 per cent of the world population. The study focuses on the major demands driving world protests, such as those for real democracy, jobs, public services, social protection, civil rights, global justice, and those against austerity and corruption.
Exactly ten years ago, microfinance was awarded the Nobel prize, promising to “put poverty in museums.” Today its legacy is quite different: 10 million defaulters in India alone. The experience of microfinance in South Asia—the frontier of the industry globally—presents a puzzle.
This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Paul Krugman, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyer and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus. Read more…
Fundamental flaws in the current global reserve system have led to a massive build up of hard currency reserves that, in turn, have helped generate the global imbalances which cause deep systemic vulnerabilities. At the center of the unstable and unequal system is the capricious provision of the global reserve asset by a national entity coupled with the absence of an adequate collective insurance mechanism for states.
The first journalism textbook for reporters who cover finance and economics in developing and transitional countries, Covering Globalization is an essential guide to the pressing topics of our times. Written by economists from the Asian Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund as well as journalists who have worked for Read more…
Around the world, people have become increasingly angry at the failures of their governments to address their needs. More than any other issue in 2021-2022, the rising cost of living, paired with austerity reforms, has driven people around the world to the streets in protest.