Mercedes García-Escribano is Senior Economist at the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Her expertise and interests include policy advice and analytical work in macro-economic, fiscal, intergovernmental fiscal relations and real sector issues. She has published in the areas of fiscal (with an emphasis on decentralization) and labor economics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago in 2003.
Edward Hugh
Don't Shoot the Messenger
Edward is a macro economist, who specializes in growth and productivity theory, demographic processes and their impact on macro performance, and the underlying dynamics of migration flows. Edward is based in Barcelona, and is currently engaged in research on aging, longevity, fertility and migration, and the impact of all of these on economic growth. He is currently working on a book "Population, The Ultimate Non-renewable Resource?" He is a regular contributor to a number of economics weblogs, including India Economy Blog, A Fistful of Euros, Global Economy Matters and Demography Matters. He was, in fact, a founding member of all these weblogs. Edward follows in detail the Indian, Italian, Spanish, German and Japanese economies. He has a more than a passing interest in the economies of Turkey and Brazil and in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe.
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