Member Views | The Bretton Woods Committee

Title	Article date	Article source
William R. Rhodes: The Role of the IDB in the Time of COVID The IDB is the leading source of development financing in the region. Since September 2020, it is under new leadership, which has numerous challenges on its agenda, some of them associated with the pandemic that are without precedent.	Tue, Apr 27, 2021	Latin American Chamber of Commerce in Switzerland
Masood Ahmed: Low-Income Countries Need a Boost for the Recovery. Here's How the IMF Can Step Up Most observers gave the IMF high marks for its initial response to the COVID-19 crisis. It responded quickly with emergency financing to 86 countries, including a fivefold increase in its concessional lending to low-income countries (LICs).	Mon, May 3, 2021	Center for Global Development
William C. Dudley: The Days of Low Treasury Yields Are Numbered The 10-year U.S. Treasury note is part of the foundation of global finance. Its yield helps determine the cost of mortgages, the value of U.S. stocks and how much the U.S. government must pay to service its growing debt.	Wed, May 12, 2021	Bloomberg \| Opinion
Scott Morris: Testimony on China’s Lending Practices and the International Debt Architecture On May 18, 2021, CGD Senior Fellow Scott Morris testified before the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy at a hearing on “Examining Belt and Road: The Lending Practices of the People’s Republic of China and Impact on the International Debt Architecture.”	Tue, May 18, 2021	Center for Global Development
Jeffrey J. Schott: How US Trade Policy Can Support Climate Change Goals Responding to President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s charge to Cabinet members to contribute to the effort to decarbonize the US economy, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai has put forward useful proposals on how trade policy can support solutions to global warming.	Thu, May 20, 2021	Peterson Institute for International Economics
Nancy Lee and Rakan Aboneaaj : MDBs to the Rescue? The Evidence on COVID-19 Response The world is now more than a year into the second global crisis of the century. Both the current pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) more than 10 years ago tested the capacity of international financial institutions to respond with speed and scale.	Fri, May 21, 2021	Center for Global Development
Daniel Alpert: Americans Don’t Want to Return to Low Wage Jobs The hopes for a booming pandemic recovery — growth led by jobs gains in the millions every month — were dealt a blow in recent weeks by a disappointing April jobs report.	Tue, Jun 1, 2021	The New York Times
Jacob L. Lew, Lawrence H. Summers, and others: We Ran the Treasury Department. This Is How to Fix Tax Evasion Six hundred billion dollars per year, and growing	Wed, Jun 9, 2021	The New York Times
William R. Rhodes: Warning Signs of a "Volcker Moment" Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who was my longtime friend and officemate, died at the end of 2019 before Covid-19 swept the planet.	Mon, Jun 14, 2021	Reuters Breakingviews
Mohamed El-Erian: Fed Meeting Turns Into a Test of Its Inflation Narrative Central bank should not take comfort from the bond market.	Mon, Jun 14, 2021	Financial Times