Rethinking macroeconomic policies for development

Macroeconomic Policies and Growth

‘Is there some action a government of Australia could take that would lead the Australian economy to grow like Korea’s or Taiwan’s? If so, what, exactly? If not, what is it about the ‘nature of Australia’ that makes it so? The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else’ (With...

Rethinking Password Policies

“In the practice of security we have accumulated a number of “rules of thumb” that many people accept without careful consideration. Some of these get included in policies, and thus may get propagated to environments they were not meant to address. It is also the case that as technology changes, the underlying (and unstated) assumptions underlying these bits of conventional wisdom also change. ...

Rethinking Multiple Equilibria in Macroeconomic Modeling

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Macroeconomic policies for higher employment in the era of globalization

Commentary: Vitamin A policies need rethinking.

supplementation and childhood morbidity from diarrhea and respiratory infections: A meta-analysis. The beneficial effects of weekly low-dose vitamin A supplementation on acute lower respiratory infections and diarrhea in Ecuadorian children. Double blind, cluster rando-mised trial of low dose supplementation with vitamin A or beta carotene on mortality related to pregnancy in Nepal. The Nnips-2...