Mauricio Villafuerte is a Deputy Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. He specializes in fiscal and monetary policy issues in natural resource-rich countries and has produced several publications on fiscal policy management and fiscal institutions (specifically fiscal rules and natural resource funds) in those countries. Before joining the Fund, he worked at the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Ecuador.
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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