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William Nordhaus, Paul Romer win Nobel Prize in Economics

William Nordhaus of Yale University and Paul Romer of NYU's Stern School of Business were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on economics of climate change

3 min read8 Oct 2018
Politics

World Bank to recalculate national rankings of ease of doing business

World Bank chief economist Paul Romer says the bank is beginning the process of correcting the past reports and republishing what the rankings would have been without the methodology changes

3 min read15 Jan 2018
News

Paul Romer to be World Bank chief economist as Kaushik Basu retires

Paul Romer will take up the position in September and is tasked with keeping the World Bank Group at the forefront of international development knowledge

1 min read19 Jul 2016
Opinion

Charter cities

World Bank's chief economist-in-waiting Paul Romer's latest idea on urbanization should be taken seriously by the Narendra Modi government

1 min read18 Jul 2016
Opinion

A world of ideas

Paul Romer's 1990 paper on economic growth was aptly timed because it came just as the world was entering a new era of technological innovation

1 min read7 Oct 2015
Opinion

The one chart that explains the importance of urbanization

Fast-growing states of India have had higher rates of urbanization

1 min read11 Jun 2015
News

Nobel economists: Masters of theory, if not of practice

Favourites include Robert Barro of Harvard and Paul Romer of New York University, who have done work on growth

3 min read13 Oct 2013
Opinion

The new protocol economy

The new protocol economy

3 min read23 Dec 2009
Opinion

Big bucks after B-school

Big bucks after B-school

1 min read8 Mar 2009

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