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Hinh T. Dinh

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Hinh T. Dinh is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Morocco and President of Economic Growth and Transformation, LLC., VA, USA. Previously, he spent over 35 years working at the World Bank Group where his last position was Lead Economist in the Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist. He has authored and co-authored books published by the World Bank, Oxford University, and the Policy Center for the New South, and has written articles in professional journals covering public finance, international finance, and industrialization. His latest books include Tales from the Development Frontier (2013), Light Manufacturing in Vietnam (2013), Jobs, Industrialization, and Globalization (2017), Morocco (2020), and COVID-19 and Developing Countries (2022).

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SAILING ON A STORMING SEA: POLICY CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 2022-2025
Hinh T. Dinh
Thursday, December 29, 2022
The current bleak outlook for the world economy, with a likely recession in major economies, high inflation, rising interest rates, and slow productivity growth, will adversely emerging market and developing countries (EMDE) over the next few years. Unfortunately, these countries emerged from COVID…
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Economy, Asia, South Asia, Africa, Maghreb
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Le Sommet UE-UA 2022 : pour une interdépendance équilibrée
Abdelhak Bassou

Rim Berahab

Nouzha Chekrouni

Hinh T. Dinh

Karim El Aynaoui

Aomar Ibourk

Len Ishmael

Larabi Jaïdi

Mohammed Loulichki

Rida Lyammouri

Henri-Louis Vedie

Afaf Zarkik
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Le sommet afro-européen des 17 et 18 février 2022 à Bruxelles marque la sixième édition de la rencontre de haut niveau entre les deux continents. Ce sommet, organisé traditionnellement en alternance entre l’Afrique et l’Europe, intervient dans un contexte régional et international marqué…
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Economy, International Relations, Security & Defense, Commodities & Energy, Agriculture, Society, Africa, Europe
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COVID-19 & Developing Countries—the Road to Recovery
Hinh T. Dinh
Thursday, February 3, 2022
COVID-19 has ravaged nearly every country in the world, with the globalization of recent decades intensifying its spread. As of mid-2021, the world had spent $16.5 trillion—18% of global GDP—to fight the disease. And that amount does not even include the most important losses such as deaths, mental…
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Economy, Macroeconomics and regulation, Sectorial policies and structural transformation, Society, Health, Africa
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Covid-19 and the Dilemma of the Developing Countries
Hinh T. Dinh
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
COVID-19 has caused serious damage throughout the entire world. As of mid-2021, the global fiscal cost of COVID-19—excluding the most important consequences, such as human lives, mental health effects, restrictions of human freedom, and other non-pecuniary components, have amounted to at least $16.…
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Economy, Sectorial policies and structural transformation, Society, Health
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Covid-19 and the Fiscal Space of Developing Countries
Hinh T. Dinh
Monday, December 6, 2021
Between January 2020 and June 2021, the world spent about US $16.5 trillion (18% of world GDP) to fight COVID-19, and this amount does not even include the most important losses such as deaths, mental health effects, restrictions on human freedom, and other nonmonetary suffering. Nearly 90% of this…
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Economy, Macroeconomics and regulation, International Relations, International Cooperation, International Organisations, Society, Health, Africa, Asia, Americas and Carribean, Europe
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Accelerating Growth and Job Creation in a Rapidly Changing and Integrated World
Hinh T. Dinh

Vandana Chandra

Emmanuel Pinto Moreira

Mahmoud Arbouch
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
This book aims to address job creation in Morocco in the context of a new export-driven growth model. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the unemployment situation in Morocco was serious, particularly among young people. Morocco’s competitive edge in the global market had been eroding, especially in…
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Africa’s Development Issues After Covid-19
Hinh T. Dinh
Friday, February 12, 2021
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19’s impact on Africa, focusing on the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, based on information available as of October 2020. We first identify the two key long-term issues of the SSA countries before the crisis: resource dependency and slow…
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Economy, Regional integration, Sectorial policies and structural transformation, Society, Health, Africa
Opinion
Is Vietnam a Currency Manipulator? Implications for Developing Countries – Comments on the U.S. Treasury Report
Hinh T. Dinh

Hinh T. Dinh
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
WASHINGTON-The December 2020 U.S. Treasury Report (hereafter referred to as the TR) to Congress singled out Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators. In Vietnam’s case, it is surprising that the U.S. Treasury openly expressed its concerns about a country that graduated from the group of low…
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Opinion
COVID-19 and Government Policies
Hinh T. Dinh
Friday, April 17, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to wreak more havoc in developing countries than in developed countries, because of the crumbling healthcare systems and infrastructures in the former, their inadequate budgetary resources, shallow financial systems, and weak government authority and capability. This…
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Economy, Sectorial policies and structural transformation, Society, Health
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Jobs, Industrialization, and Globalization
Hinh T. Dinh
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
After many decades of expansion, incomes and standards of living have never been better in many parts of the world. Yet, global trade and the prospects of growth still seem uncertain, and protectionism seems to be on the rise. In developed countries, there is anxiety over the loss of the…
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Economy, Labour market and human capital, Sectorial policies and structural transformation, Trade

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