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Mahesh Kotecha: Biden Should Implement a “Yellen Bond” Plan for African Debt The OECD has estimated that external capital inflows to emerging market countries shrank in 2020 by about $700 billion relative to 2019.	Thu, Dec 17, 2020	Bretton Woods Committee
Gary Kleiman: Rotating Refugee Crises Demand Development Daring Another tragedy often overlooked during this year’s global Covid rampage, with their own physical mobility and financial remittance restrictions, is the 80 million displaced population in the UN’s latest tally, approximately one-third official refugees with 80% fleeing one developing country for another.	Tue, Dec 15, 2020	The Bretton Woods Committee
Andy Haldane: All Crises Open Up Opportunities to Think Afresh The Bank of England’s chief economist calls on policymakers to jolt companies towards fairer, more productive ways of working.	Sun, Dec 13, 2020	Financial Times
William Rhodes and Noel Lateef: Global Policy Makers: The Macro View The Foreign Policy Association hosted Bill Rhodes and Paul Sheard for a discussion of the impact of Covid-19 on the world economy.	Thu, Dec 10, 2020	Foreign Policy Association
Scott Morris: Only the U.S. and China Can Stave off Debt Disaster There’s one area where the U.S. and China can and should cooperate immediately, however: to head off a looming debt crisis that threatens to hurl millions into poverty.	Mon, Dec 7, 2020	Bloomberg
Constance Hunter, Arun Ghosh, and Judd Caplain: Institutionalization of Cryptoassets Cryptoassets (or crypto) have garnered significant attention from the media, financial analysts, governments, regulatory institutions, and investors over the last year and a half.	Mon, Nov 30, 2020	KPMG
Mark Sobel: Yellen at the Treasury President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary – the 78th in US history and the first woman.	Wed, Nov 25, 2020	OMFIF
William R. Rhodes: China Doing Less than it Should on Debt Reconstructuring Bill Rhodes, former Chairman of Citibank and President and CEO of William Rhodes Global Advisors, shares his perspective on the G20, China's economy, and how Biden can restore U.S. leadership.	Mon, Nov 23, 2020	Bloomberg
Nancy Lee, San Bilal, Manuel Bueno and Valeria Ramundo Orlando : Opinion: How Can DFIs Do More to Help MSMEs Survive Covid-19? The global scale of the COVID-19 crisis threatens micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises, which dominate employment around the world — especially in lowest-income countries.	Wed, Nov 18, 2020	Devex
Masood Ahmed: Beyond the Numbers: Why the World Needs a More Ambitious MDB Response to COVID-19 A recent CGD paper and the World Bank’s response focused on precisely how much financial support the Bank is likely to provide this year to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and whether this would match with targets the institution set for itself at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.	Mon, Nov 16, 2020	Center for Global Development