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Anne O. Krueger

Anne O. Krueger

Writing for PS since 2014
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Anne O. Krueger, a former World Bank chief economist and former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is Senior Research Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Development at Stanford University. She is the author of International Trade: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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  1. The Urgency of Global Debt Reform
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    The Urgency of Global Debt Reform

    Jan 3, 2025 Anne O. Krueger highlights the need for an international framework that prevents prolonged restructuring negotiations.

  2. A Better Alternative to Trump’s Tariffs
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    A Better Alternative to Trump’s Tariffs

    Nov 25, 2024 Anne O. Krueger worries that the incoming US administration’s trade policies will harm, not help, American workers.

  3. Can India Become a Developed Economy by Mid-Century?
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    Can India Become a Developed Economy by Mid-Century?

    Oct 29, 2024 Anne O. Krueger urges policymakers to resume key structural reforms and streamline regulations that stifle business activity.

  4. America’s Protectionist Policies Are Backfiring
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    America’s Protectionist Policies Are Backfiring

    Oct 4, 2024 Anne O. Krueger argue that US leaders' embrace of trade-suppressing measures has done more harm than good.

  5. Biden’s Solar Tariffs Undermine His Own Climate Agenda
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    Biden’s Solar Tariffs Undermine His Own Climate Agenda

    Aug 28, 2024 Anne O. Krueger thinks that supporting domestic production jeopardizes the administration’s economic and environmental goals.

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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.
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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

    predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

    thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.

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