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BlogSafety Nets vs Economic Empowerment
There are important changes in how many developing countries are approaching the problem of poverty. Specifically in the area of “social protection” policy — policies intended to prevent or alleviate income insecurity and poverty — these changes are reflected in attempts to move beyond one-off interventions and “safety nets” to policies designed to address some [...] -
Gli azionisti di JP Morgan al voto sulla doppia poltrona di Dimon. Le tre lezioni della “Balena”
FIRSTOnline, 21 Maggio 2013. Tutti i diritti riservati. Gli azionisti votano oggi in assise sulla separazione delle cariche di presidente e ceo dopo gli scandali—Trema la doppia poltrona di Dimon—Le tre lezioni della balena di Londra dell’economista Jan Kregel (Bard College)—Il caso JPMorgan è diventato il terreno di gioco su cui si sta disputando la […] -
JPMorgan e la Balena, l’economista Jan Kregel: sostituire i responsabili non basta
FIRSTOnline, 21 Maggio 2013. Tutti i diritti riservati. LE TRE LEZIONI DELLA BALENA DI LONDRA/1 Jamie Dimon ha superato il voto sulla doppia poltrona mentre la fronda degli azionisti "ribelli" chiede le dimissioni dei tre membri della Commissione rischi che non hanno superato il 60% dei consensi— Ma il problema di JPMorgan non è solo […] -
MME, May 18, 2013
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Express: Νέα δεδομένα για την ασφάλιση τραπεζικών καταθέσεων στην ΕΕ ανέκυψαν από το πρόσφατο κυπριακό «κούρεμα»
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Rania Antonopoulos: In Greece, 173,000 Persons among the 950,000 Registered Unemployed Are Less Than 24 years old
Eleftheritypia, May 19, 2013. All Rights Reserved. Youth unemployment is just one part of the wider problem of unemployment and of course requires specialized interventions to tackle it, according to Rania Antonopoulou, professor at Bard College, director of the research division for gender equality of the Levy Economics Institute, and associate researcher with the Labour […] -
MME, May 19, 2013
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Ράνια Αντωνοπούλου: 173.000 είναι ηλικίας κάτω των 24 ετών
Προσοχή και σε όσους έχασαν τη δουλειά τους και δεν είναι τόσο νέοι. Η ΑΝΕΡΓΙΑ των νέων είναι ένα μόλις μέρος του γενικότερου προβλήματος της ανεργίας, που ωστόσο χρειάζεται εξειδικευμένες παρεμβάσεις για την αντιμετώπισή του, σύμφωνα με τη Ράνια Αντωνοπούλου, καθηγήτρια στο Bard College, διευθύντρια του τμήματος Ερευνας για την Ισότητα των Φύλων του Levy […] -
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Hyman Minsky and the Employer of Last Resort
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned Hyman Minsky’s new book, Ending Poverty: Jobs, Not Welfare (there is also a Kindle version). Take a look at the cover – Minsky looking like a bit of a rougue! I thought you might enjoy my powerpoint presentation, given at the Levy-Ford annual Minsky conference in NYC in mid-April. [...] -
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Measuring Success in the Eurozone
The formation of the eurozone represents “the wildest experiment in financial history,” according to C. J. Polychroniou: the eurozone was to involve the inclusion of independent states, with highly diverse economic systems and cultural settings, that were required to give up national currency sovereignty in exchange for a “foreign” currency without the backing of a [...] -
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A Budget Surplus by 2015?
That’s the implication of a James Pethokoukis post linked to here by Reihan Salam. Let’s assume for the sake argument that a federal budget surplus does emerge in 2015 (yesterday’s CBO report projected the 2015 deficit would be a mere 2.1% of GDP). Salam expresses concern that such a scenario would leave Republicans, who have [...] -
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Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard: Lessons from the Cyprus Crisis
In a new policy note, Jan Kregel draws out some of the policy lessons of the Cypriot deposit tax episode for plans to create a system of EU-wide deposit insurance. In addition to the necessity of a strong central bank (the ECB in this case) standing behind the deposit insurance scheme (which does not appear [...]