OTAVIANO CANUTO – LINKS TO PUBLICATIONS (2007 – July 2018) (English)

OTAVIANO CANUTO – LINKS TO PUBLICATIONS (2007 – July 2018) (English)

Peer-reviewed articles (PR), books and chapters, policy papers and op-eds

 By Topics

Middle-Income Growth Traps

• (PR) Access to finance, product innovation and middle-income traps, with Pierre-Richard Agenor, Research in Economics 71 (2017), p.337-355 (earlier version: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6767. February 2014).
• (PR) Middle-income growth traps, with Pierre-Richard Agenor, Research in Economics 69 (2015), p.641-660 (earlier version: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6210. September 2012).
• Overcoming Middle-Income Traps, Capital Finance International, winter, 2012-2013.
• Avoiding Middle-Income Growth Traps, with Pierre-Richard Agénor and Michael Jelenic. Economic Premise 98, November 2012. [VoxEU – Avoiding middle income growth traps]
• The East Asian Miracle 2.0, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, November 2012.
• Navigating the Road to Riches, Project Syndicate, July 2011

 Emerging Market Economies

• (Book) Financial Deepening and Post-Crisis Development in Emerging Markets – Current Perils and Future Dawns, Gevorkyan, Aleksandr V., Canuto, Otaviano (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  • Emerging Markets and the Post-2008 World, with Aleksandr Gevorkyan
• (Book) Ascent After Decline: Regrowing Global Economies After the Great Recession with Danny Leipziger (eds.), Washington: World Bank, 2012.
  • Preface, with Danny Leipziger
  • The Challenges of Growth, with Danny Leipziger and Brian Pinto
• (Book) The Day After Tomorrow: A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World, with Marcelo Giugale (eds.),. Washington D.C.: World Bank, September 2010.
  • Preface, with Marcelo Giugale
  • Synthesis, with Marcelo Giugale
  • Recoupling or Switchover? Developing Countries in the Global Economy
  • Technological Learning: Climbing a Tall Ladder, with Mark A. Dutz and José Guilherme Reis
  • Natural Resources and Development Strategy after the Crisis, with Milan Brahmbhatt and Ekaterina Vostroknutova
• Emerging markets face multiple tantrums, INTERFIMA, July 2018.
• Developing economies face tantrums, OMFIF Bulletin, July-August 2018.
• Argentina, Turkey and the May Storm in Emerging Markets, INTERFIMA, June 2018.
• Beyond the Ballot: Turkey’s Economy at the Crossroads, with Samuel George, INTERFIMA, March 2017.
• Whither Emerging Markets Foreign Exchange Reserves Capital Finance International, winter 2015-2016.
• Turkey’s Economy at the Crossroads, with Samuel George, INTERFIMA, September 2016.
• Tales of Emerging Markets, with Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, INTERFIMA, August 2016.
• Capital Flows and Deleveraging in Emerging Markets: The Great Portfolio Rebalancing, with Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, INTERFIMA, March 2016.
• Shadow Banking in China: A Morphing Target, with Lusha Zhuang, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, November 2015.
• China and Emerging Markets: Riding Wild Horses, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, February 2014.
• QE Tapering as a Wake-up Call for Emerging Markets, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, October 2013.
• Emerging Markets and the unwinding of quantitative easing, Capital Finance International, autumn 2013.
• Emerging Markets Selloff: What’s Next? Roubini’s EconoMonitor, August 2013.
• China, Brazil: Two Tales of a Growth Slowdown, Capital Finance International, summer 2013.
• Lost in Transition, Project Syndicate, December 2013.
• China: The Morphing Dragon Growth and Crisis Blog – World Bank, May 2013.
• Growing after the Crisis: Boosting Productivity in Developing Countries, Growth and Crisis Blog – World Bank, April 2013.
• Currency War and Peace, Project Syndicate, March 2013.
• Foreword with Catiana García-Kilroy and Anderson Caputo Silva. Euromoney Emerging Markets Handbook 2013. euromoney-yearbooks.com/handbooks. October 2012
• The New Financial Landscape: What It Means for Emerging Market Economies with Catiana García-Kilroy and Anderson Caputo Silva, Economic Premise 87, August 2012.
• How to Ascend after Declining? Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, February 2012.
• A State of Hope in a State of Uncertainty Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, February 2012.
• Foreword with Catiana García-Kilroy and Anderson Caputo Silva. Euromoney Emerging Markets Handbook 2012. euromoney-yearbooks.com/handbooks, October 2011
• Can Developing Countries Continue to Lead Global Growth? International Economic Bulletin, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. January 2011
• Risky Growth Engines, Project Syndicate, January 2011
• Toward a Switchover of Locomotives in the Global Economy. Economic Premise 33, September 2010.
• Emerged Economies with Marcelo Giugale. Foreign Policy. November 2010.
• Introduction, with Justin Lin, In Mustapha Nabli (ed.), The Great Recession and Developing Countries: Economic Impact and Growth Prospects, Washington, D.C.: World Bank, December 2010.
• Foreword with Catiana García-Kilroy and Anderson Caputo Silva (PDF). Euromoney Emerging Markets Handbook 2011. euromoney-yearbooks.com/handbooks. October 2010.
• The Day After Tomorrow: Growth Switchover, with Marcelo Giugale, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, September 2010.
• Challenges in the coming phase of globalisation: A sense of déjà vu, with José Manuel Salazar, VoxEU, June 2010.
• Recoupling or Switchover, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, June 2010 [full note: Recoupling or Switchover, PREM – World Bank]
• Stiglitz’s New Book and the Developing Countries, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, February 2010.
• Decoupling, Reverse Coupling and All That Jazz, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, September 2009.
• The Developing World in a Post-Bubble Economy, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, April 2009.
• Trade finance, banking introspection and emerging economies, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, March 2009.
• Emerging Markets and the Systemic Sudden Stop, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, November 2008.

 Latin America and the Caribbean

• Latin American economies face political crossroads in 2018, INTERFIMA, January 2018.
• Cuba Online, with Samuel George, INTERFIMA, August 2017.
• Colombia: getting peace, getting growth, with Diana Quintero, INTERFIMA, March 2017.
• China’s Spill-Overs on Latin America and the Caribbean Capital Finance International, summer 2016.
• Suriname: Facing the Storm with a Correction of Course? INTERFIMA, October 2016.
• TTIP and TPP — A Threat to Latin America? with Samuel George and Cornelius Fleischhaker, INTERFIMA, March 2016.
• Latin American Corporate Finance: Is There a Dark Corner?, Let’s Talk Development, World Bank, February 2015
• A new day in Colombia, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, with Cornelius Fleischhaker and Samuel George, December 2015.
• Oil Prices and the Future of Petrocaribe, with Frank Fuentes, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, September 2015.
• Small Is Beautiful… but Vulnerable! With Veronica Ramcharan, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, August 2015.
• Nicaragua: A Success Story in the Making, with Manoel Coronel, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, November 2015.
• Not Your Granma’s Cuba: A New Day in the Caribbean, with Cornelius Fleischhaker and Samuel George, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, July 2015.
• Argentina at a Crossroads, with Cornelius Fleischhaker and Samuel George, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, June 2015.
• Bucking the Trend: Poverty Reduction and Inequality in Latin America, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, June 2012.
• Latin America and the Global Financial Turmoil, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, October 2007.
• Securitization in Latin America: advantages of latecomers, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, October 2007.
• Repricing of Latin American Risks, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, August 2007.

Brazil

• Benefits and Costs of Opening Brazil’s Foreign Trade, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, August 2018.
• Dissolving corruption in Brazil, OMFIF Bulletin, October 2017.
• Brazil’s Economic Deliverance, Project Syndicate, September 2017.
• Does Brazil’s Sector Structure Explain Its Productivity Anemia?, with Fernanda De Negri, INTERFIMA, June 2017.
• Long-term finance and BNDES tapering in Brazil, with Matheus Cavallari, INTERFIMA, June 2017.
• Brazil’s Pension Reform Proposal is Necessary and Socially Balanced, INTERFIMA, April 2017
• The Brazilian Debt Hangover, INTERFIMA, January 2017.
• Where has all the BRL depreciation gone? Financial Times, December 22, 2016
• What’s Ailing the Brazilian Economy? Capital Finance International, autumn 2016.
• Brazil Needs an Honest Weight Loss Huffington Post, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, October 2016.
• A Straitjacket to Help Brazil Fight Fiscal Obesity Huffington Post, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, October 2016.
• Brazil’s Way Out, Project Syndicate, September 2016
• Brazil at the Crossroads, with Samuel George and Cornelius Fleischhaker, INTERFIMA, April 2016.
• What’s Ailing Brazil? Project Syndicate, February 2016.
• Currency depreciation is silver lining of Brazil’s recession, with Corneliu, s Fleischhaker, Financial Times, December 9, 2015
• Trade Opening Could Be a Source of Growth for Brazil, Capital Finance International, autumn 2015.
• Are Mega-Trade Agreements a Threat to Brazil? Roubini’s EconoMonitor, February 2015.
• Navigating Brazil’s Path to Growth, Capital Finance International, winter 2014-2015.
• The High Density of Brazilian Production Chains, Let’s Talk Development – World Bank, November 2014.
• The cost of Brazil’s closed economy, with Cornelius Fleischhaker and Philip Schellekens, Financial Times, January 14, 2015 + [VoxEU: The curious case of Brazil’s closedness to trade(w/ Cornelius Fleischhaker and Philip Schellekens)] + [The Curious Case of Brazil’s Closed Economy (w/ Cornelius Fleischhaker and Philip Schellekens)]
• The Curious Case of Brazil’s Closedness to Trade,with Cornelius Fleischhaker and Philip Schellekens, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper n.7228, April 2015
• Three Perspectives on Brazilian Growth Pessimism, with Philip Schellekens, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, June 2014.
• What’s Holding Back Brazil? Project Syndicate, February 2014.
• Brazil: Chasing Animal Spirits, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, June 2013.
• The Brazilian Competitiveness Cliff, with Matheus Cavallari and Jose Guilherme Reis,
  Economic Premise 105, February 2013. {Vox EU – The Brazilian Competitiveness Cliff]
• Brazilian Competitiveness: Folia and Hangover, with Matheus Cavallari and Jose Guilherme Reis, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, February 2013.
• Brazilian Exports: Climbing Down a Competitiveness Cliff, with Matheus Cavallari and Jose Guilherme Reis, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6302, January 2013.
• Vulnerability, Exchange Rate and International Reserves: Whither Brazil? with Bruno Saraiva, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, November 2009.
• Brazil is not underperforming, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, July 2007.
• Greenspan in the mirror: risk management in Brazil’s monetary policy, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, May 2007.

Fiscal policy and public sector management

• Pro-cyclical emerging market policy: new evidence,with Francisco Carneiro and Leonardo Garrido, VoxEU, July 2015.
• When it comes to fiscal policy, it’s better to save for a rainy day than to let it pour, with Francisco Carneiro and Leonardo Garrido, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, June 2015.
• Fiscal Policy: Cycle and Space Matter, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, January 2015.
• Fiscal Policy Redux, Capital Finance International, spring 2013.
• Fiscal Policy for Growth and Development with Milan Brahmbhatt, Economic Premise 91. October 2012.
• Overview – Fiscal Policy for Growth and Development, with Milan Brahmbhatt, In Moreno-Dodson, B. (ed.), Is Fiscal Policy the Answer? A Developing Country Perspective, Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2013 (p.1-22).
• Where Rubber Hits the Road: Reforming Public Sector Management, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, December 2012.
• In Times of Consecutive Crises, Is Fiscal Policy the Answer? Roubini’s EconoMonitor, December 2012.
• Fiscal Policy for Shared Prosperity, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, October 2012.
• Like a Hummingbird – From Chile to Mongolia, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, October 2012.
• Can Non-State Service Delivery Undermine Governments? Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, October 2012.
• Not All That Glitters Is Gold: GDP Per Capita as Yardstick for Living Standards, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, September 2012.
• Political Economy in a Bad Economy Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, January 2012.
• Picking Up the Pieces, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, April 2011.
• How Public Spending Can Help You Grow Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, February 2011.
• The Day After Tomorrow: Will We Ever Trust the State? with Marcelo Giugale, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, December 2010.
• The Day After Tomorrow: Fiscal Quality with Marcelo Giugale, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, October 2010.

Subnational Debt, Debt Restructuring and national sovereign ratings

• (Book) Until Debt Do Us Part: Subnational Debt, Insolvency, and Markets, with Lili Liu (eds.), Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2013.
  • An Overview, with Lili Liu
• Until Subnational Debt Do Us Part, with Lili Liu, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, April 2013.
• (PR) Orderly Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Missing in Action! (And Likely To Remain So), with Brian Pinto and Mona Prasad, The World Bank Research Observer, Volume 29, Issue 1, February 2014, Pages 109–135 (earlier version: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6054, May 2012).
• (PR) Macroeconomics and Sovereign Risk Ratings with Pablo Fonseca P. dos Santos and Paulo C. de Sá Porto. Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy, Vol. 3, No. 2. May 2012.
• Subnational Debt, Insolvency, and Market Development, with Lili Liu.
  Economic Premise 112, April 2013.
• Bankrupt Sovereigns: Is There an Orderly Way Out? , Roubini’s EconoMonitor, June 2013.,
• Procrastination is Costly, Action is Priceless, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, June 2012.
• Subnational Debt Finance and the Global Financial Crisis with Lili Liu, Economic Premise 13, May 2010.
• Shadow Sovereign Ratings with Sanket Mohapatra and Dilip Ratha, Economic Premise 63, August 2011 [VoxEU: shadow sovereign ratings, September 2011]
• Credit Ratings Matter for Those Who Need Them Most Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, August 2011.
• Straitjackets on Brazilian Sub-National Finance Roubini’s EconoMonitor, June 2007.

Monetary policy and the global economy

• (Book) Dealing with the challenges of macro financial linkages in emerging markets, with Swati Ghosh (eds.), Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2013.
  • Summary, with Swati Ghosh
  • Monetary Policy and Macro Prudential Regulation: Whither Emerging Markets, with Matheus Cavallari

• Global imbalances and currency bullying, INTERFIMA, July 2018.
• Lowering the Fed balance sheet, OMFIF Bulletin, May 2018.
• The Double Side of the Fed’s Balance Sheet Unwinding, INTERFIMA, April 2018.
• The Metamorphosis of Financial Globalisation, Capital Finance International, autumn 2017.
• Bloated Central Bank Balance Sheets, with Matheus Cavallari, Capital Finance International, spring 2017.
• Global Imbalances on the Rise, Capital Finance International, winter 2016-2017.
• Trump: Can You Deliver It? With Matheus Cavallari, INTERFIMA, November 2016.
• The Global Economy Remains Unbalanced, INTERFIMA, November 2016.
• De-Risking Is De-Linking Small States from Global Finance, with Veronica Ramcharan, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, October 2015.
• Macroeconomics and Stagnation – Keynesian-Schumpeterian Wars, Capital Finance International, spring 2014.
• Sluggish Postcrisis Growth: Policies, Secular Stagnation, and Outlook, with Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith, Economic Premise n.139, April 2014.
• Secular Stagnation: A Working Pair of Scissors Needs Two Blades, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2014.
• Crisis Recovery: Flying on a Single Engine Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2014.
• Walking on the Wild Side – Monetary Policy and Prudential Regulation, Capital Finance International, winter 2013-2014.
• Calibrating 2014, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, January 2014.
• Dealing with the challenges of macro financial linkages in emerging markets, with Swati Ghosh, Economic Premise 129, November 2013.
• Finance as Economic Cholesterol Roubini’s EconoMonitor, September 2013.
• Marrying Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, September 2013.
• Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Regulation: Whither Emerging Markets with Matheus Cavallari. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6310, January 2013.
• Asset Prices, Macroprudential Regulation, and Monetary Policy, with Matheus Cavallari, Economic Premise 116, May 2013. [VoxEU – Integrating monetary policy and macroprudential regulation]
• Shifting Tectonic Places Under Global Banking, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, October 2012.
• Is Shadow Banking Dangerous for You? Roubini’s EconoMonitor, September 2012.
• Goodbye Financial Engineers, Hello Political Wonks, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, August 2012.
• Euro Area Sovereign Debt Crisis: Putting the House in Order, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2012.
• Capital Account Liberalization: Are there Lessons to be Learned? Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, February 2012.
• How Complementary Are Prudential Regulation and Monetary Policy?, Economic Premise 60, June 2011
• A Marriage of Convenience, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, May 2011.
• Reviving a Policy Marriage, Project Syndicate, April 2011
• The Cost of Financial Reform for Emerging Markets, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, April 2011.
• Whither the U.S. Dollar, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2011.
• Currency Wars Yesterday and Today, with Milan Brahmbhatt and Swati Gosh, Economic Premise 43, December 2011.
• Managing Economic Policy in a Multipolar World, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, May 2011.
• The Day After Tomorrow: Macro-Financial Policy Catches Up With Reality, with Marcelo Giugale, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, January 2011.
• The Arrival of Asset Prices in Monetary Policy, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, October 2009 [full note: The Arrival of Asset Prices in Monetary Policy, PREM – World Bank]

International Trade and Technology

• Realizing Globalization’s Innovative Potential, Project Syndicate, August 2018.
• Climbing a tall knowledge ladder, INTERFIMA, May 2018.
• Making returns on knowledge, OMFIF Bulletin, June 2018.

• Can Services Replace Manufacturing as an Engine for Development? Capital Finance International, Spring 2018.
• The Future of Manufacturing in the Global South, Project Syndicate, April 4, 2018
• Overlapping Globalisations, Capital Finance International, winter 2017-2018.
• China and the new phase of trade expansion, OMFIF Bulletin, December 2017.
• NAFTA at the Crossroads, with Samuel George and Michael McKeon, INTERFIMA, May 2017.
• Protectionist Creeps Project Syndicate, October 2016.
• What Happened to World Trade? Capital Finance International, spring 2016.
• Has the Global Trade-Development Link Peaked?, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, January 2016.
• The Impacts of Trade Facilitation Measures on International Trade Flows,with Paulo C.de Sá Porto and Cristiano Morini, World Bank Research Policy Working Paper 7367, July 2015.
• Trade Facilitation: Diplomacy May Be Catching Up, with Paulo Costacurta Sá Porto and Cristiano Morini, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, December 2015
• South-South Trade through Value-Added Glasses, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, September 2013.
• What It Takes for Trade to Reduce Poverty in Africa , Roubini’s EconoMonitor, June 2013.
• Trade: The World Is Not Flat Yet, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2013.
• Mobilizing Development via Mobile Phones Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, January 2013.
• Harnessing Trade Opportunities for Growth and Development, Capital Finance International. Summer 2012.
• Revolutionary Services, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, November 2012.
• Connecting Wagons: Why and How to Help Lagging Regions Catch Up, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, October 2012.
• Facilitating Trade, Facilitating Development, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, July 2012.
• Connected to Compete? Not as Much as We Could Be, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, May 2012.
• Collaborative Border Management: A New Approach to an Old Problem, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, April 2012.
• The Doha Round: Much More than Market Access, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, November 2011.
• Trade Finance and the Financial Crisis, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, September 2011.
• Asia and South America: A Quasi-Common Economy Approach, with Manu Sharma, Economic Premise 65, September 2011.
• Economic Integration: A Quasi-Common Economy Approach, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, September 2011.
• Who SEZ One Size Fits All? Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, September 2011.
• Diversify, Diversify, Diversify, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, June 2011.
• Sophisticated Exports, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, April 2011.
• The Day After Tomorrow: A Different Kind of Trade with Marcelo Giugale, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, May 2011.
• The Day After Tomorrow: If You Want To Grow, Learn with Marcelo Giugale, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, January 2011.
• Technological Learning and Innovation: Climbing a Tall Ladder with Mark A. Dutz, and José Guilherme Reis., Economic Premise 21, July 2010.
• Export-led Growth v2.0 with Mona Haddad and Gordon Hanson, Economic Premise 3, March 2010.
• The Doha Trade Round is Worth Fighting For, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, November 2009.

Natural-Resource Led Development

• Sovereign Wealth Funds Are Coming Home, with Havard Halland, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, February 2014.
• A Billion-Dollar Opportunity for Developing Countries with Havard Halland, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, October 2013.
• Resource-Backed Investment Finance in LDCs with Havard Halland, Economic Premise No. 123, September 2013.
• Natural Wealth: Is It Inevitably a Curse? with Matheus Cavallari. Bridges Africa Review. Geneva: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, June 2012.
• The Day After Tomorrow: Commodities And Uncomfortable Natural Riches, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2011.
• Natural Capital and the Resource Curse with Matheus Cavallari, Economic Premise No. 83, May 2012. [VoxEU – Natural wealth: Is it a blessing or a curse?]
• Diamonds May Be Forever, Natural Resource Wealth Is Not, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, May 2012.
• Dealing with Dutch Disease with Milan Brahmbhatt and Ekaterina Vostroknutova, Economic Premise No. 16, May 2010. [Vox EU – Dealing with Dutch Disease]
• Natural Resources and Development Strategy after the Crisis with Milan Brahmbhatt.
  Economic Premise No. 1, February 2010.
• Paul Collier and his Plundering Planet: When Both Economists and Environmentalists Don’t Get it Right, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, May 2010.
• Don’t Blame Mother Nature, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, January 2010.
• The Misery of the “Dutch Disease and Deindustrialization” Argument, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, July 2007.

Commodity Prices

• How Commodity-Dependent Are Latin American Economies? Capital Finance International, summer 2015.
• BRICS Apart as Oil Prices Plunge, Capital Finance International, spring 2015.
• Commodity Super Cycle to Stick Around a Bit Longer, Capital Finance International, summer 2014.
• Distorted Prices in Commodity Markets Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, May 2012.

Infrastructure: finance and the macroeconomy

• Filling the infrastructure financing gap, OMFIF Bulletin, November 2017.
• Global infrastructure finance falls OMFIF, November 2017.
• Matchmaking Finance and Infrastructure, with Aleksandra Liaplina, Capital Finance International, summer 2017.
• Liquidity Glut, Infrastructure Finance Drought and Development Banks, Capital Finance International, autumn 2014.
• Clogged Metropolitan Arteries, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, February 2014.
• Development Banks and Post-Crisis Blues in Investment Finance, Growth and crisis blog – World Bank, August 2013.
• Energy hedging is a must in Brazil… as elsewhere in the region Roubini’s EconoMonitor, November 2007
• Electricity and macroeconomics in Brazil: the end of the golden age, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, July 2007.

 Gender equality and economic growth

• (PR) Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil: A Long-Run Analysis, with Pierre-Richard Agénor, Journal of macroeconomics 43 (2015) p.155-172 (earlier version: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6348, January 2013). [VoxEU – Gender equality and economic growth: A framework for policy analysis]
• (PR) On Gender and Growth: The Role of Intergenerational Health Externalities and Women’s Occupational Constraints, with Pierre-Richard Agénor and Luiz Pereira da Silva, Structural change and economic dynamics 30 (2014), p.132-147 (earlier version: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5492, December 2010)
• (PR) Access to Infrastructure and Women’s Time Allocation: Evidence and a Framework for Policy Analysis, with Pierre-Richard Agenor, Revue d’economie du developpement 2014/1 (vol. 22), p. 37-73 (earlier version: Working Paper P45. Fondation pour les Études et Recherches sur le Développement International, Clermont-Ferrand, France. April 2012).

• No Women, No Growth – The Case for Increasing Women’s Leadership in Latin America, with Paula Tavares, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, August 2018
• Development through gender equality, OMFIF Bulletin, March 2018.
• Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil, with Pierre-Richard Agénor.
  Economic Premise No. 109, February 2013.
• Gender Equality Pays Off in Brazil, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, March 2013.
• Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth, with Pierre-Richard Agénor. Economic Premise No. 85, June 2012.
• Women’s Day: A Time for Concern, Not Complacency, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2012.
• Gender and Trade, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, July 2011
• How Do Women Weather Economic Shocks? Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, January 2011
• My Own View on Women, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2010.

Climate Change

• Climate Change: Get Ready to Adapt! with Milan Brahmbhatt, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, February 2013.
• Trade and Climate Change: Handle with Care, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, August 2012.
• An Inconvenient Truth for Latin America, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, July 2011.
• To Address Climate Change We Need to Measure Poverty Better, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2011.
• Macro-Disasters, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2011.
• Asymmetric Climate Change, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, May 2008.

Jobs, Poverty, Inequality and Migration

• South Asia and the Geography of Poverty, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2013.
• It’s Jobs, Stupid! Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, November 2012.
• Fighting Inequality to ‘Bend the Arc’ of History, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, November 2012.
• Jobs as a Gateway to Prosperity, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, October 2012.
• Jobs as a Scorecard, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, July 2012.
• Is Europe as Unequal as the U.S.? Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, July 2012.
• Sewing Success: How Textile Jobs Help Reduce Poverty, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, June 2012.
• Less Poor but More Unequal, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, April 2012.
• Emerging Markets Lead in Job Recovery, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, April 2012.
• Should We Still Worry About Food Prices? Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, February 2012.
• Are Emerging Markets Leading the Way in Job Creation? Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, February 2012.
• Food Prices, Financial Crisis and Droughts Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, November 2011.
• Food Prices and the 7 Billionth Baby, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, November 2011.
• Small Is Beautiful in Job Creation, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, November 2011.
• Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, October 2011.
• Remittances Rebound but Pressures Persist, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, May 2011.
• Money Can’t Buy Equality, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2011
• The Food Price Threat to Poor Continues, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, April 2011.
• The Poor Are Paying the Price of the Food Cost Spike, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, February 2011.
• Do the Poor Really Benefit from Labor Migration? Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, January 2011.
• The Day After Tomorrow: The Final Battle in the War Against Poverty with Marcelo Giugale, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, November 2010.

Others

• The Economics of Human Rights and MDGs in Practice with Milan Brahmbatt,
  In Langford, M. & Yamin, A. (eds.), MDGs and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• How Human Rights Have Contributed to Development Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, February 2011.
• The World Bank as hummingbird: Leveraging knowledge for development finance, East Asia and Pacific on the Rise – World Bank, March 2018.
• New political economy of micro-stability, with Phil Psilos, INTERFIMA, February 2018.
• Toward a Migration Development Bank for Transition Economies, with Aleksandr Gevorkyan, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, June 2015.
• What Can We Learn from Islamic Finance? Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, March 2012.
• Drugging Development, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, June 2012.
• Freedom and Development: Something Worth Fighting For Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, June 2011.
• Delivering Aid Differently, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, February 2011.
• Investment climate and microeconomic reforms, Roubini’s EconoMonitor, May 2007.
• The Role of Cultural Heritage in Poverty Reduction, Growth and Crisis blog – World Bank, May 2010.