Word: economists
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...vast poverty relief and local rule schemes. Still, Gandhi's advisers say that if the Prime Minister is returned to power, he will push forward with deregulation and other reforms. If Gandhi is defeated, his successor may have little choice but to do the same. Says Surjit Bhalla, an economist with the Policy Group, a New Delhi think tank: "After what has happened in the past five years in the global economy, Indian policymakers have finally realized that socialism has failed to deliver the goods...
...Jeffrey Sachs, the glaring gap between rich and poor in Latin America is a major cause of the debt crisis that has racked the region. The boyish Harvard & economist, an adviser to debt-ridden countries from Bolivia to Poland, blames wealthy Latin elites for dodging taxes and arranging self-serving subsidies that have "sucked the blood" from many governments, forcing them to borrow heavily...
Sachs' message is simple: debtors must reform their economies by methods that include collecting more taxes from the elite, while U.S. banks must forgive at least half their $59 billion of loans to Latin borrowers. "I don't believe we should move in small steps," says the economist...
...divided during the 18th and 19th centuries, should sympathize with the Germanys' desire to reunite. But the thought of 78 million Germans under one flag next door is enough to give even the most zealous reformer pause. "We already detect a growth of German assertiveness," warns a leading Polish economist. Says Bromke: "The Warsaw Pact is perhaps the best guarantee of Poland's territorial integrity...
...study the present through the past," said Goldin. "I'm an economist who studies history to study the origins of modern policy issues and the origins of aspects of the economy that are interest...