HKS Affiliated Authors

Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Charles W. Eliot University Professor

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What the world must do to kickstart growth. Lawrence Summers, April 7, 2014, Opinion. "The world’s finance ministers and central bank governors gather in Washington this week for the biannual International Monetary Fund meetings. While there will not be the sense of alarm that dominated the convocations in the years after the financial crisis, the unfortunate reality is that the medium-term prospects for the global economy have not been so problematic for a long time. The IMF in its current World Economic Outlook essentially endorses the “secular stagnation” hypothesis..." Link