June 2013:
A WOMAN’S WORLD
Different Sight Lines
Ann Mari May
U.S. economists' views vary by gender, with
potential implications for national
policymaking
Women in Charge
Rohini Pande and
Petia Topalova
A policy experiment in India suggests that
placing female leaders in positions of power
can dramatically change public attitudes
Ready to Bloom?
Mark Blackden and
Mary Hallward-Driemeier
Employment in high-return activities is the
pathway to economic empowerment for African
women
Connections on Wall Street
Lily Fang
Are male and female analysts evaluated on
the basis of different criteria?
Women's Tales from Wall Street
Straight Talk: Dare the Difference
Christine Lagarde
More women at work means good news for the
global economy
Secrets of Their Success
Niccole
Braynen-Kimani, Glenn Gottselig,
Lika Gueye, Yusun Lee, Maureen Burke
Five women leaders share stories of how they
got ahead
Picture This: Equal Treatment
Natalie
Ramírez-Djumena
Closing the gender gap would boost economic
growth in OECD countries
Also in This Issue
The Coming Wave
G. Andrew Karolyi,
David T. Ng, and
Eswar S. Prasad
Private investors from emerging market
economies increasingly put their funds in
overseas assets
The End of Cheap Labor
Mitali Das and Papa
N'Diaye
China's working-age population is poised to
decline, with big implications for China and
the rest of the world
Banks on the Treadmill
Hiroko Oura and
Liliana Schumacher
Stress tests assess banks' strength by
simulating their performance in extreme
economic scenarios
Prudent or Profligate?
Paolo Mauro, Rafael
Romeu,
Ariel Binder, and Asad Zaman
A new database permits a two-century look at
countries' success in managing their debt
Liquid Gold
Jacqueline
Deslauriers
What an $18 million maple syrup heist tells
us about the economics of supply management
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
People in Economics
Reinhart on This Time Is Different
Back to Basics
What Is Shadow Banking?
Laura E. Kodres
Many financial institutions that act like banks are
not supervised like banks
Book Reviews
Story of My People, Edoardo Nesi
Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries, Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya