#  Developing Countries 

 



**Go to op-eds & talks** [**on China**](/china)**.**  
 **o**[**n Commodities**](/commodities)**: The** [**resource curse**](/natural-resource-curse) **&** [**how to avoid it** ](/policies-commodity-exporting-countries)   
 **on** [**EMs & exchange rates**](/exchange-rates-and-emerging-markets)

"[Foreign Aid Looks Good Now That It’s Gone,"](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/high-costs-of-trump-administration-cuts-to-us-foreign-aid-by-jeffrey-frankel-2025-05?utm_source=project-syndicate.org&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=authnote&) *Project Syndicate*, May 21. "Foreign aid, now missed," [*Korea Herald*](https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10497981), May 29  [*Bangkok Post*](https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3032216/foreign-aid-the-powerful-us-soft-power-is-gone), May 23, 2025.

"Beyond the Chain Saw: Deregulation in Argentina", Federico Sturzenegger, [HKS Forum, video, April 30.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmXrvoW74UI)

"[What Causes Prosperity?" *Project Syndicate*](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/this-years-nobel-laureates-showed-how-institutions-can-promote-prosperity-by-jeffrey-frankel-2024-10?utm_source=project-syndicate.org&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=authnote&) Oct. 22. [*Korea Herald*](https://news.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20241023050746) Oct. 24.

"[The Election-Devaluation Cycle](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/elections-this-year-will-test-nordhaus-devaluation-theory-by-jeffrey-frankel-2024-04)," [*Korea Herald*](https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240430050924)*,* May 1, 2024.

"[Is the language of rights useful for reducing poverty?](/file_url/1379)" Dec. 2023, in *Making a Movement: The History and Future of Human Rights* (Carr Center for Human Rights, HKS: Cambridge MA), pp. 55-56.

"[Restructuring the Debt of African Commodity-Exporters](https://www.jeffrey-frankel.com/2023/04/28/restructuring-debt-of-african-commodity-exporters/)," [*Project Syndicate*](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/commodity-bonds-help-indebted-countries-hedge-against-price-volatility-by-jeffrey-frankel-2023-04?barrier=accesspay), April 25, 2023.

“[Struggling](https://youtu.be/CEEHtx928ik) [Economies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEEHtx928ik),” video interview, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Sept. 3, 2022.

"[Why Commodity Prices are Likely to Fall](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/slower-growth-higher-interest-rates-lower-commodity-prices-by-jeffrey-frankel-2022-08?barrier=accesspay)," *Project Syndicat*e, August 23, 2022.

“Might the pandemic signal the end of global economic convergence?” [Ppt slides](/file_url/1051), Keynote address, G20 Global Financial Stability Conference 2021, Sept. 7.

“[The Pandemic Pain of Emerging Markets](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/covid19-will-hit-emerging-and-developing-economies-hardest-by-jeffrey-frankel-2020-07),” [*Project Syndicate*](https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/jeffrey-frankel)***,*** July 31, 2020.  
  
[Comment](/file_url/877) at G-20 High-Level Ministerial Conference on, Tackling the Covid-19 crisis – Restoring Sustainable Flows of Capital and Robust Financing for Development, July 8, 2020.

"The Currency-plus-Commodity Basket Peg: A Proposed Monetary Regime for Commodity-Exporting Countries" [Ppt](/file_url/637) or [pdf presentation](/file_url/638), for LACEA, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Nov. 9-10, 2018.  
  
"[Fiscal Cyclicality in EM Countries](///Q:/MacroPolicySemFiscalEMs2016Oct.pptx),*"* Macroeconomic Policy Seminar, Harvard Economics Department, October 18, 2016.

"[African Leaders' Eyes on the Prize](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/jeffrey-frankelexplains-how-the-ibrahim-prize-may-improve-african-leadership?barrier=accesspaylog)," [*Project Syndicate*](http://www.project-syndicate.org/contributor/jeffrey-frankel), Oct.15, 2013. E.g., [*Korea Herald*](http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20131021000934), Oct.21, 2013. [Longer version](http://www.jeffrey-frankel.com/2013/10/21/the-ibrahim-prize-for-excellence-among-african-leaders/).& [BCSIA](https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/ibrahim-prize-excellence-among-african-leaders).

"[Cuban Time Travel](http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/cuba-s-search-for-a-new-economic-model-by-jeffrey-frankel)," [*Les Echos*](http://lecercle.lesechos.fr/economistes-project-syndicate/autres-auteurs/221159497/cuban-time-travel) and other [*Project Syndicate*](http://www.project-syndicate.org/contributor/jeffrey-frankel)*,* Nov.22, 2012. Full version: "[Cuba: A Trip to 1959](http://www.jeffrey-frankel.com/2012/11/25/cuba-a-trip-back-to-1959/)," Nov.26, 2012.  
  
"[Chile's Countercyclical Triumph](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/27/chile_s_countercyclical_triumph)," [in](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/ChileFiscalSolutionFPJune2012.doc) [Transitions](http://transitions.foreignpolicy.com/), [*Foreign Policy*](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/), June 27.  
  
"[Off the Beaten Path](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/16/off_the_beaten_path)," [Transitions](http://transitions.foreignpolicy.com/), [*Foreign Policy*](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/), Feb.16, 2012.   
  
"[The Little Economy That Could](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/02/the_little_economy_that_could)," [Transitions](http://transitions.foreignpolicy.com/), [*Foreign Policy*,](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/) Feb.2, 2012.   
  
“[Some Big Ideas from Small Countries](http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=2773),”  [*European Financial Review*](http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/), April-May, pp. 4-5, 2011.

"[Big Ideas from Small Countries](http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/frankel2/English)," [*Korea Times*](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/speechttp:/www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2010/10/166_75161.html) , [*Il Sole 24 Ore*](http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/economia/2010-10-21/ideas-from-small-countries-160727.shtmlhttp:/www.ilsole24ore.com/art/economia/2010-10-21/ideas-from-small-countries-160727.shtml), and other [*Project Syndicate* ](http://www.project-syndicate.org/)newspapers, Oct.2010. Reprinted, [*Business & Management Journal*](http://www.bizmgtjournal.com/) [2, no.1, Jan.2011](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/BigIdeasSmallCsReprintdAfrJan2012CovrP.doc). [With links](http://content.ksg.harvard.edu/blog/jeff_frankels_weblog/2010/08/15/some-big-ideas-from-small-countries/): blogpost 8/15/10. [TV interview](http://watch.bnn.ca/after-hours/august-2010/after-hours-august-16-2010/#clip337163), BNN, 8/16/10.

"[Prospects for Monetary Integration in Southern Africa," slides](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/MonetaryUnionSAfricaJan10-2007.pdf) Stellenbosch University, Jan.18, 2007.  
  
[“Has an inordinately low trade/GDP ratio held back South African Growth?”](http://hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/SAfrOpennessVsGravity.pdf) Center for International Development’s *Project on South Africa: Performance and Prospects,* 2006.

["Pro-Trade Arguments in Answer to the Contrarians,"](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/Pro-LDCagtrade-FT7-11-2005.pdf) July 11, 2005. [*Financial Times*](http://www.ft.com/comment/personalview).

"Is the Language of Rights Be Useful in the Fight Against Poverty?" [video of debate](https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/human-rights-debate-language-rights-useful-fight-against-poverty) with Prof. Amartya Sen, HKS Forum, Feb.11, 2005.