Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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How Important is the Unemployment Rate for the Wage Rate?
Persistent changes in unemployment have lasting consequences for income distribution
How Bankers Hide Losses
The Master and the Prodigy
It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”
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US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Pharmaceutical in the Last Decade
Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for every new drug approved between 2010 and 2019
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Professor Kako Nubukpo: COVID-19 Shows that Global Value Chains Shouldn’t Keep Africa in Chains of Dependence
During this interview, Professor Kako Nubukpo, Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Lomé, Togo and former Minister of Prospective and Evaluation of Public Policy of Togo considers the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 crisis and its repercussions on monetary policy and fiscal reforms underway in West and Central Africa today.