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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.

Hungary’s Viktor Orban is Using the Coronavirus to Push his Populist-Nationalist Agenda

Undoubtedly the coronavirus will bring transformational change to all aspects of our lives, but the impact on global politics will be dire. This week we got a glimpse into how populist-nationalist governments, which continue to be on the rise, will respond to the pandemic.

IDB Governors: The Case for Capital Replenishment Needs To Be Made

This week, the Inter-American Development Bank’s governors gather for their annual meeting.

If Business Roundtable CEOs are serious about reform, here’s what they should do

The Business Roundtable recently announced a major policy change...

IFI’s as Game Changers for a new Economy

By: Herman Mulder, Former ABN AMRO Bank; co-initiator of the 2003 Equator Principles; Chair True Price, Impact Economy Foundation; Chair SDG Netherlands.

IMF annual meetings reflected global gloominess

The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank wrapped up on 16 October. Washington DC’s economy is richer for it. Its citizens are relieved the extreme traffic mess – even by DC standards – has abated. Thousands of delegates packed into innumerable meetings, seeing each other face-to-face often for the first time in years. Gloomy views were reinforced, while DC’s liquor stocks were drawn down. Whether much was learned is a different matter.

IMF enhancing efforts in Latin America

While the world focuses on the US and China, Britain's exit from the European Union, G3 monetary policy and Europe's doldrums, little attention is being paid to economic and financial developments in Latin America.

IMF Right to Spend Liberally

Debt moratorium a critical step forward
A week of virtual international meetings – G7 and G20 finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund’s international monetary and financial committee – has just wrapped up.

IMF Shifts Approach to Low Income Countries and Special Drawing Rights

Fanfare exceeds reality

Before its summer recess, the International Monetary Fund board tackled two key operational issues – future concessional support for low income countries and ‘channelling’ special drawing rights.

Inflation in the 21st Century: Taking Down the Inflationary Straw Man of the 1970s

This overview of the history of, and future prospects for, undesirable levels of price inflation in the U.S. economy concludes that concerns raised in 2021 by several well-known economists and analysts – regarding the prospects for accelerating levels of inflation as a result of pandemic-era and post-pandemic fiscal and monetary policy (enacted and proposed) – is misplaced.