Mark Thirlwell takes a look at some of the key economic policy challenges currently facing American policymakers. Not that long ago, economists considering a career in the area of applied international macroeconomics might have found themselves debating whether to focus on developed or emerging markets. Developed markets offered the obvious attraction of being the most...

The recent stock market plunge should remind Australians that they live in a vulnerable country as well as a lucky country, writes Tom Conley.

Time series analyses generally rely on having a relatively high frequency of consistent and reliable data to work with. However for many of the South Pacific Island Nations (SPINS), data on major macroeconomic series, like GDP, are typically available only annually from the early 1980s. This paper empirically estimates quarterly GDP data from annual series...

This book is about development and measuring development progress. While precise definitions may vary, development is, at heart, a process of building wealth—the produced, natural, human, and institutional capital which is the source of income and wellbeing.

This report ranks 134 countries' performance in terms of health, education, economic participation and political empowerment.