Report October 2009

The Obama administration estimates that the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) will create or save approximately three and a half million jobs by the end of 2010. A Special Report featured in this issue points toward the necessity for a comprehensive employment strategy that goes well beyond ARRA–and concludes that the government could have achieved far more at the same cost.

CONFERENCE

• Employment Guarantee Policies: Responding to the Current Economic Crisis and Contributing to Long-Term Development

SPECIAL REPORT

• Who Gains from President Obama’s Stimulus Package … And How Much?

NEW PUBLIC POLICY BRIEFS

• Promoting Gender Equality through Stimulus Packages and Public Job Creation: Lessons Learned from South Africa’s Expanded Public Works Programme
• The Global Crisis and the Implications for Developing Countries and the BRICs: Is the B Really Justified?
• Financial and Monetary Issues as the Crisis Unfolds
• The New New Deal Fracas: Did Roosevelt’s “Anticompetitive” Legislation Slow the Recovery from the Great Depression?

NEW POLICY NOTE

• Some Simple Observations on the Reform of the International Monetary System

NEW WORKING PAPERS

• Revisiting (and Connecting) Marglin-Bhaduri and Minsky: An SFC Look at Financialization and Profit-led Growth
• Distributional Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: A Microsimulation Approach
• Fiscal Policy and the Economics of Financial Balances
• From Unpaid to Paid Care Work: The Macroeconomic Implications of HIV and AIDS on Women’s Time-tax Burdens
• How Well Do Individuals Predict the Selling Prices of Their Homes?

LEVY INSTITUTE NEWS

• Conference: Gender and the Global Economic Order
• New Program Director
• New Research Associates

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Publications and Presentations by Levy Institute Scholars
• Recent Levy Institute Publications