Capital, Labor, and Productivity: Moyo on U.S. Economic Competitiveness
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Capital, Labor, and Productivity: Moyo on U.S. Economic Competitiveness

Explainer Video by Isobel Coleman, Interviewer and Dambisa Moyo, Interviewee

April 1, 2011 10:20 am (EST)

Capital, Labor, and Productivity: Moyo on U.S. Economic Competitiveness
Explainer Video

Dambisa Moyo, economist and author of "How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly -- and the Stark Choices Ahead," shares her thoughts on U.S. economic leadership, China’s rise, and the developments in the Middle East with Isobel Coleman, director of CFR’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative.

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