Honorary Vice President at IMANI Center for policy and education, Bright Simons, on the challenges Ghana is facing
Bright Simons is honorary Vice President at IMANI Center for policy and education, a think tank dedicated to policy and research on rule of law, market growth and development, individual rights, and human security and institutional development. He previously served on the World Economic Forum's Africa Strategy Group.
If primary commodities and mid-to-high-tech manufacturing products are produced by industries with different wage shares, there are distributive implications of deepening trade integration with certain regions with respect to others.
How can we quantify the wage share implied by varying degrees and types of participation to Global Value Chains?
A stable labor share has long been a stylized fact of advanced capitalist development (Kaldor, 1961). A key premise was that productivity increases would accrue to labor through real wage increases, which would tend to hold constant the share of wages in net output.
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In our INET working paper, "China’s Development Path,” we employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided foundational support for the emergence of Chinese enterprises capable of technological learning.
Why to Be Wary of Another Volcker-Type Monetary Tightening
For a long time, stagflation was thought to be a thing of the past. But now there is a real risk of it coming back, warns the Bank for International Settlements (BIS 2022), the ‘central bank’ for the world’s central banks. High inflation is expected to be around for a prolonged period of time—as a result of the recurring reinstatements of lockdowns in China, the surge in global energy and commodity prices following Russia’s war in Ukraine, global warming, and the breakdown of global supply chains due to geopolitical tensions.
Fears of ‘stagflation’ have come back to haunt macroeconomic policy makers all over the globe
As 2022 comes to a close, panelists discuss the immediate prospects for the global economy, the dangers of a lost decade for developing countries and what needs to be done to put the SDGs back on track.
Moderator: Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalization and Development Strategies Division
UNCTAD Panelists: