Ilene Grabel

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Fiscal Crises: Coming To A City Near You?

The sad fact of the matter is that Detroit suffers today from international trade and international financial policies of the past two decades that Krugman himself, and indeed many …

By: Ilene Grabel &; George DeMartino ,; TripleCrisis

August 4, 2013

Op-Ed

News Flash: Small Outbreaks of Sensibility in an Insensible Global Financial System

As “the financial crisis continues to grind on” in Greece and people take to the streets, the question on everyone's mind is how it all will end?

By: Ilene Grabel ,; TripleCrisis

October 3, 2012

News Analysis

Spotlight G20: Speeding From Hopeful to Hopeless

Remember the WTO – the institution that we loved to hate? We haven’t been hearing much from or about the institution since its 2003 meeting in Cancun Mexico. That …

By: Ilene Grabel ,; TripleCrisis

October 24, 2011

Op-Ed

The “Currency Wars”: What’s Next for the BRICs and Other Rising Powers?

Today’s “currency wars” stand at the intersection of many critical issues. These include the ability of developing countries to deploy capital controls, the role of the US as global …

By: Ilene Grabel ,; TripleCrisis

April 16, 2011

Financial Governance and the Crisis: New Developments on the Horizon

In what follows, I flag a number of new developments that relate to developing country and international financial institutions responses to the ongoing economic crisis. 1. Central Banks to …

By: Ilene Grabel ,; TripleCrisis|Report

February 17, 2011

The Emerging Financial Architecture: A New Take on Decoupling

Think back to the good old days just before the world financial system exploded. Remember all the talk then of “decoupling”? What advocates of the decoupling thesis had in …

By: Ilene Grabel ,; TripleCrisis|Op-Ed

December 17, 2010

Capital Controls, “Currency Wars” and New Global Financial Architecture

For those of us advocating change in the global financial architecture, the last few months have been fairly exhilarating. Let’s recap…

By: Ilene Grabel ,; TripleCrisis|Op-Ed

October 19, 2010

Remittances, Migration and Other Panaceas: The End of Outward-Looking Development Strategies

In a 1965 essay, the great development economist Albert Hirschman bemoaned the tendency of those in his profession to look for the next panacea. Unfortunately, various panaceas have come …

By: Ilene Grabel ,; TripleCrisis.com|NewsAnalysis

August 25, 2010

Capital Controls:

In a recent post, I argued that capital controls have become the new normal. This is welcome news to progressives who have long argued that developing countries should have …

By: Ilene Grabel ,; TripleCrisis.com

July 14, 2010

Capital Controls: “The New Normal” (Part I)

Like many progressive economists, I’m addicted to economics and business news. These days one phrase is repeated constantly—“The new normal.” Indeed, National Public Radio’s show, “Planet Money” recently featured …

By: Ilene Grabel ,; TripleCrisis|Op-Ed

July 12, 2010

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