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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

a former World Bank Group chief economist and editor-in-chief of the American Economic Review, is a professor of economics at Yale University..

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg's Articles

The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

Jan 25 , 2025 . By Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Michele Ruta

Global trade is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by three major shifts. N...

What a Successful Industrial Policy Needs

Sep 21 , 2024 . By Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Contrary to expectations, Arizona's Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC...

Why Have Developing Countries Soured on Multilateralism?

Mar 23 , 2024 . By Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Multilateralism is waning, and one of the world's leading multilateral institutions,...

Goldin's Nobel Win a Milestone for Women

Nov 25 , 2023 . By Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Last month, the economics community rejoiced when the Royal Swedish Academy of Scienc...

Protectionism Started the Geopolitical Fire

Sep 23 , 2023 . By Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Seeing many prominent economists decry the Trump Administration's tariffs as welfare...

Three Cheers for Hybrid Work

Feb 4 , 2023 . By Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

There is no shortage of hyperbole in the debate about whether companies should demand a full return to office work. According to Citadel's K...

Commentaries

Climate-Driven Hunger Fuels the Next Migration Crisis

In the first half of this year, nearly 20,000 people crossed the English Channel to t...

The Scramble for Critical Minerals

The world's superpowers have developed a seemingly insatiable appetite for the critical minerals that are...

Fineline

Leaders of the National . . .

Leaders of the National Election Board are in a charm offensive mood, of a sort. Last week, they organised a rare tour for members of the me...

When the country’s most. . .

When the country's most senior diplomats and envoys return back to their posts after two-week debriefings, they leave behind a point or two...

Editorial

Teaching Hospitals Shoulder the Burden While Administrators Count the Beans

Jul 26 , 2025

Teaching hospitals everywhere juggle three jobs at once: teaching, curing, and discov...

In Taxing Aggressively, Fed's Fiscal Reckoning Arrives

Jul 19 , 2025

Parliament is no stranger to frantic bursts of productivity. Even so, the vote last w...

Legal, Policy Volatility Turns Promises into Headwinds

Jul 12 , 2025

Political leaders and their policy advisors often promise great leaps forward, yet th...

Civil Society Feels the Squeeze as Reform Era Unravels

Jul 5 , 2025

Six years ago, Ethiopia was the darling of international liberal commentators. A year...

Gallery

Parliament Approves New Cabinet Members

Oct 6 , 2021

Parliament Approves New Cabinet, Incorporates Opposition Leaders Lawmakers have approved today the nominations of 22 ministers, including three opposition leaders. Two MPs have voted against, while 12 abstained...

2020 in Posterity

Jan 5 , 2021

TIGRAY VOTES DESPITE "NULL & VOID" THREAT

Sep 9 , 2020

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

Dec 14 , 2019

PM Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at a Gala Dinner Called for the Awarding of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

May 6 , 2019

Faces, Voices of Addis Abeba

Apr 26 , 2019

Sunday With Eden

Rogue Accountants Bleeding Businesses

In recent months, a troubling pattern has emerged across Ethiopian businesses: a wave...

The Invisible Bias Against Caring Fathers

Last week, I was in the hospital, sick and out of commission. While I focused on reco...

Life Matters

The Law, the Guards, and the Doghouse

A recent incident in my residential compound reinforced a growing sense of unease: ou...

The Manual-Less Revolution

Across the world, and certainly in Ethiopia, new devices arrive fresh from the box while their instruction manuals remain untouched. Shiny a...