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Government Social Responsibility

NEW YORK – Nowadays, most companies go to great lengths to showcase their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) advocacy alongside their earnings.

Hale Report Podcast with Paul Sheard

Our guest is the eminent economist  Paul Sheard, Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center, an expert in both monetary policy and the Japanese economy.

Harnessing the Metaverse: States of All Sizes

State powers are beginning to make their presence known in the metaverse, as Barbados launches a virtual embassy and China leverages its dedicated blockchain research group to harness data in virtual worlds. Though these two examples are distinct due to the varied size of the nations, the metaverse poses opportunities for state actors to capitalize on access to a captive global audience. With these opportunities comes a variety of concerns around how resources will be controlled from the political economy perspective and how the evolving U.S.-China relationship will be defined in this new realm.

Hierarchy and Differentiation in International Regime Complexes: A Theoretical Framework for Comparative Research

The landscape of global governance is increasingly crowded. In nearly every major policy domain, multilateral cooperation occurs within clusters of nested and overlapping international institutions. A growing body of research examines these ‘international regime complexes,’ establishing institutional density as a defining feature of contemporary global governance. Issue areas as diverse as trade, climate change, education and crisis finance have experienced a crowding of governance institutions over time.

Hilary Till

Lastly this week we would like to welcome new member Hilary Till, principal at Premia Capital Management.

Hilary is a statistician with expertise in programming, modeling, and artificial intelligence. Her professional experiences span all the major asset classes, including fixed income, equities, commodities, foreign exchange, and alternative investments.

Horasis Extraordinary Meeting on the United States of America

Mahesh Kotecha will discuss "Yellen Bonds" for Africa at the Horasis Extraordinary Meeting on March 18.

How Attacks in the Red Sea Could Increase Costs of Items from Clothing to Coffee

The Bretton Woods Committee is pleased to Member Spotlight Hung Tran who was recently quoted in an article by TIME. 

QUOTE: “The Red Sea shipping line through the Suez Canal is the shortest, cheapest and most effective way to connect Asia and Africa to Europe via the Mediterranean,” says Hung Tran, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center.

How Can the Global South Navigate Geopolitical Rivalry and Geoeconomic Fragmentation?

The BWC is pleased to Member Spotlight a recent policy brief by BWC member Hung Tran published with the Policy Center for the New South examining how geopolitical tensions complicate development challenges for the Global South, navigate trade fragmentation with ambiguous roles from China and Russia, and promote developing countries to assess major powers' strategies for informed decision-making.

How China Can Learn from Mistakes in US Oversight

BWC vice-chair William Rhodes argues that "regulatory oversight of regionally significant firms is maintained, not weakened" and that "we should remember the late Paul Volcker’s maxim that a central banker is a supervisor, not a bankers’ friend."

How Does the World Bank Spend Its Climate Money?

BWC member Scott Morris and colleagues at the Center for Global Development have found that the World Bank "has a climate portfolio skewed toward mitigation" and say it's important to "apply more scrutiny to how the World Bank is spending climate money and not simply how it is raising it."