Category Archives: Recession

Recession and child labor: A theoretical analysis

by Sahana Roy Chowdhury ICRIER Working Paper no.266, April 2013 Child labor (CL) has been a major concern for the developing world, especially for India with its goal towards ‘inclusive growth’. However, impact (or vulnerabilities) of  major domestic or external spillovers … Continue reading

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Ascent after Decline : Regrowing Global Economies after the Great Recession

by Otaviano Canuto, and Danny M Leipziger World Bank 2012 This volume combines the analyses of leading experts on the various elements affecting economic growth and the policies required to spur that growth. Ascent after Decline: Regrowing Global Economies after the Great … Continue reading

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Challenge, Volume 55, Number 1 / January-February 2012

Articles •    The 1929 Crash and the Great Recession of 2008 Yiannis Kitromilides •    Unburdening America’s Middle Class Christian Weller •    Flexible Social Security and Medicare Payroll Tax Rates for Different   Times Leonard Santow and Mark Santow •    Solving Society’s … Continue reading

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PREDICTING RECESSIONS AND SLOWDOWNS: A ROBUST APPROACH

PAMI DUA and ANIRVAN BANERJI CDE Working Paper No. 202 This paper defines business and growth rate cycles and describes the importance of key coincident indicators and reference chronologies, following reflections on the definition of a recession. The robustness of … Continue reading

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