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October 30, 2009
Agreement to Restore Zelaya, if Honored, Will Be a Victory for Democracy in the Hemisphere, CEPR Co-Director Says
News of a deal that would effectively end the coup d'etat in Honduras and restore democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya to office would be a "victory for democracy in the hemisphere" resulting from the continued resistance of the Honduran people and pressure from Latin American governments, CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot said.
October 22, 2009
CEPR Responds to IMF’s Defense of Questionable Policies During World Recession
CEPR released a response today to the IMF as part of a continuing discussion of CEPR's recent paper, "IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries." This follows a recent event at which an IMF representative presented a critique of the CEPR paper.
October 21, 2009
Brazil, at OAS, Accuses Honduran Coup Regime of "Torture"
The Brazilian government's Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Ruy de Lima Casaes e Silva, accused the Honduran coup regime of "torture" in its ongoing attacks on Brazil's embassy in Honduras.
October 19, 2009
State Department Officials Challenge Administration Policy on Honduras, Signal Moves Towards Recognizing November Elections
Although the official policy of the Obama administration is that it will not recognize next month's elections in Honduras if democracy is not restored first, it became clear last week that some State Department officials are undermining this position and signaling that the U.S. could accept the results of the November 29 elections as valid.
October 6, 2009
New Report: Stemming the Rising Costs of Health Care Through Globalization
As the national debate continues over health care and the long-term budget picture, a new CEPR report suggests a substantial savings to both the government and individuals through the globalization of Medicare and Medicaid.
October 5, 2009
New Report Finds IMF Agreements Have Included Policies That Could Worsen Economic Slowdown in 31 of 41 Countries
A new CEPR discussion paper finds that 31 of 41 countries with current IMF agreements have been subjected to pro-cyclical macroeconomic policies that, during the current global recession, would be expected to have exacerbated economic slowdowns.
September 30, 2009
Is Taxpayer Money Subsidizing the “Too Big to Fail” Banks?
This report produces some preliminary calculations to quantify the value of the government support and the implicit subsidy that "Too Big to Fail" bank policy represents.
September 28, 2009
Honduras Coup Regime Suspends Constitutional Rights, Closes Media, Threatens Brazil: Will Obama Administration Break Its Silence?
The Honduran de facto regime suspended constitutional guarantees to civil liberties, including freedom of assembly and freedom of the press, for 45 days on the eve of mass protests planned to mark the three-month anniversary since the coup d'etat.
September 21, 2009
Zelaya Reported Back in Honduras: Washington Will Have to Chose Sides, Says CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot
President Manuel Zelaya's return to Honduras is a significant move and could force an end to the political crisis that followed the June 28 coup d'etat, CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot said.
September 10, 2009
IMF Conditions Harmful to Vulnerable Eastern European Economies
A new CEPR paper looks at three countries that have been hard-hit by the global recession and have turned to the IMF for assistance: Hungary, Latvia, and Ukraine. The paper finds that the governments’ responses to the downturn, and IMF conditions for assistance, have caused additional harm.
September 9, 2009
Role of Disabilities Ignored for Tens of Millions Experiencing Income Poverty
A new report from CEPR shows that the share of people experiencing income poverty who have disabilities is far larger than conventionally understood. Nearly half of all working-age adults experiencing poverty during the year have a disability, and more than half of household heads will experience a period of disability by their mid-50s.
September 4, 2009
IMF May Withhold $164 Million Allocated to Honduras
The IMF indicated today that it may not allow the de facto government of Honduras to have access to $164 million dollars that it was allocated on August 28. “If this happens, it would be the most important economic sanction to date leveled against the de facto government that seized power in a military coup on June 28,” said Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of CEPR.
September 3, 2009
State Department Steps Against Honduran Coup Don't Go Far Enough
The U.S. State Department issued a release today announcing "the termination of a broad range of assistance to the government of Honduras as a result of the coup d'etat that took place on June 28." However, CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot isn't sure that the Obama administration is serious about dislodging the coup regime.
August 25, 2009
U.S. Continues to Provide Honduran Regime With MCC Aid Money, Despite Having Cut Off Other Countries Following Coups
The U.S. continues to provide the coup regime in Honduras with tens of millions of dollars in aid money through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), despite having cut off MCC assistance to Mauritania and Madagascar following coups d'etat in those countries, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) describes in a new issue brief.
August 13, 2009
Obama Administration Should Demand an End to Coup Regime's Killings in Honduras, CEPR Co-Director Urges
The Obama administration has an obligation to demand that the de facto regime in Honduras stop ongoing political killings and other human rights abuses. Human rights observers and international media have documented the killings of at least ten people - mostly of supporters of ousted president Manuel Zelaya, and all apparently politically motivated - since the coup d'etat occurred on June 28.
August 12, 2009
Future Budget Deficits Almost Entirely Due to Rising Private Sector Health Care Costs
CEPR's has updated its interactive Health Care Budget Deficit Calculator, which allows users to see that the bulk of projected U.S. budget deficits would disappear if the U.S. had the same per person health care costs as any of 30 other countries, all of which enjoy longer life expectancies than the U.S.
August 7, 2009
Though Home Prices Appear to Bottom Out, Possibility of Long-Term Slump in Housing Remains
Many recent accounts of the housing market point to stabilization of prices and slight upticks in sales as turning points in the nation's housing crisis. However, a report released today by CEPR and the National Low Income Housing Coalition shows that in many current bubble-inflated markets, homeownership may remain a costly and risky proposition for some time to come.
July 16, 2009
A Simple Solution to a Big Problem
Dean Baker's Right to Rent plan offers one of the best policy solutions to the nation's foreclosure woes: allowing families facing foreclosure to remain in their homes as renters. The plan requires no taxpayer dollars and no new bureaucracy and is one of a handful of ideas currently under consideration by the Obama administration to deal with the housing crisis.
June 24, 2009
New CEPR Paper Assesses the Ecuadorian Economy Under Correa
This paper provides an overview of major macroeconomic and social indicators and policy changes in Ecuador over the two and a half years since President Rafael Correa took office in January 2007.
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