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Kevin P. Gallagher, Luma Ramos, Corinne Stephenson-Johnson, and Irene Monasterolo: Climate Change and IMF Surveillance: The Need for Ambition The International Monetary Fund (IMF) needs to rapidly devise a climate change strategy that helps its members meet their collective climate change and development goals.	Wed, Mar 17, 2021	BU Global Development Policy Center
Mark Sobel: Italy’s G20 Priorities Alessandro Rivera, director general of Italy’s treasury and this year’s chair of the G20 finance deputies, joins Mark Sobel, OMFIF US chairman, for this OMFIF podcast.	Thu, Mar 11, 2021	OMFIF
William R. Rhodes: Former Citi Chair Rhodes on Threats to Global Recovery (Radio) "Banker to the World" Bill Rhodes, former Chairman of Citibank and President and CEO of William Rhodes Global Advisors, on the threats to the global recovery. Hosted by Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller.	Wed, Mar 10, 2021	Bloomberg
William Rhodes and Cristina Valencia: Consider a Debt for Vaccines Program Almost a year after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, infections continue to increase in much of the world and especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the consequences are already counted in economic, social and political terms.	Tue, Mar 9, 2021	Reuters
Kevin P. Gallagher: TF 9 – International Finance Kevin. P. Gallagher has been named a co-chair of the T20 Task Force on International Finance.	Fri, Mar 5, 2021	T20
Arturo Porzecanski: Argentina and the IMF: Another Default in the Works? The seeds for the latest chapter in Argentina’s long history of confrontations with the International Monetary Fund were planted about a year ago, on the eve of the global pandemic.	Wed, Mar 3, 2021	Americas Quarterly
Helen Qiao: China Would Be Able to Double Its GDP by 2035, Says Bank of America China has stood out as one of the fastest-growing economies amid the Covid-19 pandemic, says Helen Qiao of Bank of America in an interview with CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”	Fri, Feb 26, 2021	CNBC
John Lipsky: There’s No Magic in How SDRs Help the Poor A new SDR allocation would provide liquidity to many emerging and developing countries that today have severely limited access to external financing.	Wed, Feb 24, 2021	Wall Street Journal
Jason Schenker: The Fate of Asset Inflation After COVID COVID-19 was the greatest public health crisis in a century, and it engendered the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.	Wed, Feb 24, 2021	The Bretton Woods Committee
Marjo Koivisto and Daria Taglioni: Circular Business in the Global Economy: Priority on Redesign Aside from accelerating decarbonization of industries, a key priority in the global economy today is to reduce the use of virgin materials. In discussions over the circular economy (CE), emphasis is usually put on “reusing” and “recycling”. Instead, for CE to grow sufficiently to avert the grim projections of the global economy running out of materials within decades, more pervasive change is needed. The notion that products and materials that depreciate slower are more valuable must be better internalized by their industrial and household consumers.	Wed, Feb 24, 2021	The Bretton Woods Committee