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"[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.  
  
“[Resuscitating the Salter-Swan model of a small open economy](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/resuscitating-salter-swan-model-small-open-economy),” *VoxEU* (CEPR), October 2023.

"[How to Cope with Volatile Commodity Export Prices: Four Proposals](/file_url/450)” ([pdf](/file_url/451)) 2017; in an e-book, edited by Rabah Arezki and Raouf Boucekkine. HKS [RWP17-033](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/how-cope-volatile-commodity-export-prices-four-proposals-0); [CID](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers) WP [335, 2017](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers/volatile-commodity-export-prices).  
  
“[The Currency-Plus-Commodity Basket](/file_url/276): [A Proposal for Exchange Rates in Oil-Exporting Countries to Accommodate Trade Shocks Automatically​](/publications/%E2%80%9C-currency-plus-commodity-basket-exchange-rate-proposal-make-monetary-policy),” 2018 in: *Macroeconomic Institutions and Management in Resource-Rich Arab Economies,* edited by K.Mohaddes, J.Nugent and H.Selim. (Oxford University Press). [Abstract](/publications/%E2%80%9C-currency-plus-commodity-basket-exchange-rate-proposal-make-monetary-policy). [CID WP no 333](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers/currency-plus-commodity-basket), 2017. Summarized in [Policy Brief No. 26](http://erf.org.eg/publications/currency-plus-commodity-basket-a-proposal-for-a-new-exchange-rate-arrangement-for-gulf-oil-exporting-countries/), June 2017, [Economic Research Forum](http://erf.org.eg/publication_cat/working-paper-series/) (Cairo).  
  
"[Nominal GDP Targeting for Developing Countries](/file_url/1125)," with Pranjul Bhandari, 2017, *Research in Economics* ([Elsevier](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rie.2017.06.001))  vol.71,[ issue 3, September, pp. 491-506](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S109094431730162X?via=ihub). [Uncorrected page proofs](/file_url/334).  [NBER WP 20898](http://www.nber.org/papers/w20898).

 ["](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/MauritiusSuccess2010.doc)[Mauritius: African Success Story](/file_url/996)[,"](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/MauritiusSuccess2010.doc) 2016, [*African Successes*](https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/african-successes-volume-iv-sustainable-growth), edited by S.Edwards, S.Johnson, & D.Weil (Univ. Chicago Press). [CID WP 234](/file_url/998). NBER [WP](http://www.nber.org/papers/w16569) [16569](http://www.nber.org/papers/w16569), [Summarized](/file_url/999) in [*NBER Digest*, 2011](http://www.nber.org/digest/may11/w16569.html). //

  
**Older publications on "Developing Countries"**  
  
“[The Natural Resource Curse](/file_url/643): [A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions](/file_url/644),” in [*Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries*](https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Books/Issues/2016/12/31/Commodity-Price-Volatility-and-Inclusive-Growth-in-Low-Income-Countries-25718)*,* 2012, edited by Rabah Arezki, Catherine Patillo, Marc Quintyn & Min Zhu (International Monetary Fund: Washington DC). HKS [RWP12-014](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/natural-resource-curse-survey-diagnoses-and-some-prescriptions)[.](https://ideas.repec.org/p/ecl/harjfk/rwp12-014.html) [CID](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications) [WP](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers) [no.233](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers/natural-resource-curse).

“A Solution to Fiscal Procyclicality: [The Structural Budget Institutions Pioneered by Chile](/file_url/461),” 2013, in *Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Performance*[*,*](http://www.bcentral.cl/eng/studies/central-banking/v17.htm) edited by Luis Felipe Céspedes & Jordi Galí, Series on Central Banking Analysis, and Economic Policies, vol.17, pp.323-391. Also [in Spanish translation](/file_url/462),[ *Journal Economía Chilena*](http://ideas.repec.org/s/chb/bcchec.html) [(*The Chilean Economy)*](http://ideas.repec.org/s/chb/bcchec.html), vol.14, no.2, August, 2011

"[The Curse: Why Natural Resources Are Not Always a Good Thing](/file_url/1120),” *Milken Institute Review*, vol.13, no.4, 4th quarter 2011: 28-39.

"How Can Commodity Producers Make Fiscal and Monetary Policy Less Procyclical?” *Beyond the Curse: Policies to Harness the Power of Natural Resources*, R.[Arezki](http://www.imf.org/external/np/cv/AuthorCV.aspx?AuthID=199), T.Gylfason & A.Sy, eds. ([IMF](http://www.imfbookstore.org/ProdDetails.asp?ID=NRFDEA), 2011). [HKS RWP 11-015](https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/workingpapers/citation.aspx?PubId=7657&type=FN&PersonId=15). [High Level Seminar](http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2010/afrfin/pdf/program2010.pdf), [Algiers,](http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2010/afrfin/index.htm) 2010.  
  
“[The Natural Resource Curse](/file_url/1126): [A Survey](/file_url/1405),” 2012, Chapter 1 in *Beyond the Resource Curse*, B.Shaffer & T.Ziyadov, ed. ([U.Penn.Press](http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14997.html)); NBER [WP 15836](http://www.nber.org/papers/w15836), [2010](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/NatResCurseNBERwp15836.pdf). [WP 195, 2010](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers/cid-working-paper-no.-195), Harvard [CID](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers/cid-working-paper-no.-195).

"Slow Passthrough Around the World: A New Import for Developing Countries?" with David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei, [published](http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11079-011-9210-8) in [*Open Economies Review*](http://rd.springer.com/journal/11079), vol.23, no.2 *,* April 2012, 213-251. [NBER WP 11199](http://www.nber.org/papers/w11199.pdf). [KSG RWP05-016 ](/file_url/1127)

"[What Small Countries Can Teach the World](/file_url/888)," *Business Economics* (NABE) 47[, no.2, April 2012 , pp.97-103](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/be.2012.7). HKS [RWP no. 12-013](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/what-small-countries-can-teach-world). NBER Session, NABE Annual Meeting, Dallas, Sept.11, 2011. CID WP 232. ([Georgian](/file_url/803) [translation](/file_url/804).)

"[Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?](https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11079-010-9184-y.pdf)" [*Open Economies Review*](http://www.springer.com/economics/international%20economics/journal/11079) vol.22, No.1, [Feb.2011, p.1-16](/file_url/878)*.* [NBER WP](https://www.nber.org/papers/w15419) [15419](http://www.nber.org/papers/w15419); CID WP No.185.   
  
["A Lesson from the South for Fiscal Policy in the US & Other Advanced Countries,"](http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4726595) [*Comparative Economic Studies*](http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ces/index.html) 53, no.3, Sept.2011, pp.407-430.

["Contractionary Currency Crashes in Developing Countries," ](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279560416_Mundell-Fleming_Lecture_Contractionary_Currency_Crashes_in_Developing_Countries) [*IMF Staff Papers* 52, no.2, pp 149-92](https://link-springer-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/pdf/10.2307/30035893.pdf) 2005. [NBER WP No. 11508](http://www.nber.org/papers/w11508)[. ](http://hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/CCCMay26p11Ju6.pdf)

“[Promoting Better](/file_url/1472) [National Institutions: The Role of the IMF](/file_url/1471),” *IMF Staff Papers* 50, 2003, pp. 21-30. [HKS WP](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=392401).

"[Monetary Regime Choices for a Semi-Open Country](/file_url/1412)," in *Capital Controls, Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy in the World Economy*, S. Edwards, ed., (Cambridge U. Press, 1995): 35-69. UCB CIDER wp 1994. Written for conference organized by Yung Chul Park, Seoul, Nov. 6-7, 1992.

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