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Spence will share the prize, worth $943,000, with George A. Akerlof of the University of California at Berkeley and Joseph A. Stiglitz of Columbia University...
Which country presents the biggest threat to stability? Russia, in the view of Stanford University's Joseph Stiglitz, who was Bill Clinton's chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. He summed up the danger: "Small economy. Big country. With nuclear weapons." Over roughly a decade, he said, the number of Russians living below the poverty line has swelled to more than 50% of the population. The rich, meanwhile, still prefer paying bribes to paying their taxes. The 7% growth Russia saw in 2000 came off a severely contracted economic base and was mostly the result of the world spike...
...verdict quite rightly has been uniformly positive. Here is a plan that is unmatched not only in its generosity but also in its effectiveness," said Joseph Stiglitz, senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank...
...However, Stiglitz and other panelists said giving foreign aid today can often be a more complicated issue, citing the recent foreign aid failure between the U.S. and Zaire following the ousting of Mobutu...
...This is a huge, huge revolution, like the advent of railroads and air travel," says Allen Sinai, the president and chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics in Boston. "Future economic historians will write about this as a major event in our history." Concurs Joseph Stiglitz, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "In the 19th century, the frontier of America was moving from agriculture to manufacturing. Today the frontier is going from manufacturing to services and technology, much of which can be exported." While this revolution has been under way since the 1960s, technology keeps accelerating...