India in the wake of a pandemic-driven recession: Massive loss, modest response?
YAN ISLAM | India’s national statistical agency announced on August 31 that quarterly (April to June, 2020) GDP declined by a massive 23.9… Read More
Yan Islam
Will Indonesia succumb to a secular growth slow-down? If so, does it matter?
YAN ISLAM | In an iconoclastic paper, Lant Pritchett and Larry Summers (2015), question the standard view that emerging economies in the Asian… Read More
How hard will the Indonesian economy be hit by the current pandemic?
YAN ISLAM | Indonesia rose from the ruins of the 1997-1998 financial crisis in a commendable fashion. Economic recovery from a historically unprecedented… Read More
How the great Indian lockdown became the great Indian ‘policy disaster’
What happened? How did the great Indian lockdown fail to produce the expected outcomes? It appears that, instead of ‘flattening’ the pandemic curve, the lockdown strategy merely delayed it for a while. Read More
COVID-19 and developing countries: grim predictions of a significant increase in global poverty threaten the attainment of the SDGs
COVID-19 and developing countries: grim predictions of a significant increase in global poverty threaten the attainment of the SDGs Read More
The economic consequences of COVID-19: For the first time in 60 years, growth is expected to be zero in the Asian region
The Asian region, which includes some of the most dynamic economies in the world and accounts for more than 60% of the global population, is facing zero growth for the first time in 60 years. The region has endured the oil crisis and stock market crash in the early 1970s, the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 as well as the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 without suffering a region-wide recession, although a number of countries experienced negative growth. Read More
India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease?
India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease as desperate migrant workers struggle to get home. Read More
Revisiting India’s growth slowdown: How bad is it?
YAN ISLAM | Abhijit Banerjee, who, along with Esther Duflo (his partner) and Michael Kremer, won the latest Nobel prize in economics, has… Read More
Reflections on Pakistan’s rural economy in the wake of the government’s agreement with the IMF
YAN ISLAM | I was recently invited by the Pakistan Office of the ILO, based in Islamabad, to support the work of one… Read More
Floating farms of Bangladesh: A home-grown strategy to adapt to climate change
YAN ISLAM | Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change. Flooding regularly affects about 1 million people. One prediction is that by 2050… Read More
