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IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries
Discussion featuring CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot,  Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen, Asia Russell, Director of International Policy, Health Global Access Project, James Roaf, Deputy Division Chief in the Emerging Markets Unit of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department (SPR) at the IMF, that was moderated by Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition. October 15, 2009.

Video:
The IMF's New Lending in a Time of Global Economic Downturn
Discussion featuring CEPR-Co-Director
Mark Weisbrot with Hugh Bredenkamp, Deputy Director of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department at the IMF; Doug Rediker, Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation; Robert Weissman, Director of Essential Action, and Nancy Alexander of the Heinrich Boell Foundation. June 19, 2009.

Reports

Honduras: Recent Economic Performance
November 2009, Jose Antonio Cordero

IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries
October 2009, Mark Weisbrot, Rebecca Ray, Jake Johnston, Jose Antonio Cordero and Juan Antonio Montecino

More Budget Belt-Tightening Means More Job Losses for States
September 2009, Matt Sherman

The IMF’s Stand-by Arrangements and the Economic Downturn in Eastern Europe: The Cases of Hungary, Latvia, and Ukraine
September 2009, Jose Antonio Cordero

CBO Projects More Severe Downturn
August 2009, Dean Baker

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Op-Eds & Columns

A New Role For the IMF?

Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, October 8, 2009

Debunking the Dumping-the-Dollar Conspiracy
Dean Baker
Foreign Policy, October 7, 2009

G-20 Doesn’t Offer Much Reform
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, September 27, 2009

Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” Will Find a Ready Audience
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, September 10, 2009

Big Deficit Bob Rubin and the Strong Dollar
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 8, 2009

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Press Releases

CEPR Responds to IMF’s Defense of Questionable Policies During World Recession

October 22, 2009

New Report Finds IMF Agreements Have Included Policies That Could Worsen Economic Slowdown in 31 of 41 Countries

October 5, 2009

IMF Conditions Harmful to Vulnerable Eastern European Economies

September 10, 2009

New CBO Numbers Paint Grim Picture of Economy
August 25, 2009

Housing Glut Pushes Rental Inflation to Record Lows
August 14, 2009 (Prices Byte)

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Other Resources

Video: IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries
Discussion featuring CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot,  Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen, Asia Russell, Director of International Policy, Health Global Access Project, James Roaf, Deputy Division Chief in the Emerging Markets Unit of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department (SPR) at the IMF, that was moderated by Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition. October 15, 2009.

Video:
The IMF's New Lending in a Time of Global Economic Downturn
Discussion featuring CEPR-Co-Director Mark Weisbrot with Hugh Bredenkamp, Deputy Director of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department at the IMF; Doug Rediker, Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation; Robert Weissman, Director of Essential Action, and Nancy Alexander of the Heinrich Boell Foundation. June 19, 2009.

CEPR Economics Seminar Series:

Basic Economics for Policy Analysis and Self Defense
Audio and video files of ten CEPR lectures on economic issues

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Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy
By Dean Baker
PoliPoint Press (2009)

Thinking Big

Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era
With a chapter ("From Financial Crisis to Opportunity") by Dean Baker
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. (2009)

The United States Since 1980

The United States Since 1980
By Dean Baker
Cambridge University Press (2007)

Truthout Interview

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Institutional Change and Economic Development
edited by Ha-Joon Chang
United Nations University Press (2007)

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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang
Bloomsbury Press (2007)

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Ten Years After: Revisiting the Asian Financial Crisis
A free e-book with a chapter by Mark Weisbrot
Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Asia Program (2007)



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