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The coming equity shortage
By Ricardo Hausmann - Oct 12,2020
CAMBRIDGE — Let’s be optimistic and assume that one or more of the 11 COVID-19 vaccines currently undergoing Phase 3 clinical trials are found to be safe and effective by early 2021.
Planning for crisis resilience
By Ricardo Hausmann - Sep 14,2020
CAMBRIDGE — When you throw a tennis ball to the ground, it bounces back up. But if you throw a wine glass, it shatters. Many countries’ economies are in free fall. Will they bounce back or shatter?
Why Zoom cannot save the world
By Ricardo Hausmann - Aug 05,2020
CAMBRIDGE — Before COVID-19, spending on business travel totaled $1.5 trillion a year, about 1.7 per cent of world GDP. Now it is down to a trickle, as countries have closed their borders and social distancing has taken hold.
The road to COVID-19 enlightenment
By Ricardo Hausmann - Jul 01,2020
CAMBRIDGE — Certainty is like a rainbow: Wonderful but relatively rare. More often than not, we know that we do not know. We may seek to remedy this by talking to people who may know what we want to know. But how do we know that they know?
What should we be preparing for?
By Ricardo Hausmann - Jun 01,2020
CAMBRIDGE — Suppose you knew that a hurricane was coming, but meteorologists were uncertain if it would make landfall as a Category 2 or a Category 5 storm.
Target R and wait for the vaccine
By Ricardo Hausmann - Apr 23,2020
CAMBRIDGE — Many countries are now under lockdown to lower the growth rate of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Europe’s green future starts in Ethiopia
By Ricardo Hausmann - Feb 13,2020
CAMBRIDGE — Devastating fires from the Amazon to Australia, powerful storms and changing rain patterns have made it hard for policymakers to remain silent about climate change.
Why governments should not wait for Godot
By Ricardo Hausmann - Jan 02,2020
CAMBRIDGE — The scenario is all too familiar. A reformist government wants to boost economic growth and employment by implementing market-friendly reforms designed to make the country more attractive to, often foreign, investors.
When markets and mobility collide
By Ricardo Hausmann - Nov 13,2019
WINDHOEK — Gasoline is supposed to be combustible.
Should profane contracts be sanctified?
By Ricardo Hausmann - Sep 23,2019
CAMBRIDGE — Is there such a thing as too much sanctity? After all, even the word sanctimonious indicates an excessive show of devotion. The fervour for sanctification may hide darker motives, and attaining it may be deeply counterproductive.

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