Tag: International Monetary Fund

  • Work & Economy

    From Harvard to the IMF

    The International Monetary Fund’s new chief economist, Harvard’s John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics Gita Gopinath, reflects on the tough tasks ahead.

    Gita Gopinath in her Littauer Building office at Harvard.
  • Nation & World

    India sees gains from gender quota

    A new research paper co-authored by Harvard Kennedy School Professor Rohini Pande finds that the system designating female leaders for selected village councils in India has resulted in substantive gains for girls in those villages — both in terms of aspirations and educational outcomes.

  • Nation & World

    Chasing prices

    Gita Gopinath, Harvard’s newest tenured professor of economics, uses complex mathematics to model the financial world, but she also hunts for clues in real-world data.