Member Views

Mounting Prospects for an Unprecedented Emerging Market Debt Crisis

As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the global economy, it seems that this unfolding health and social crisis will be with us until we have both an effective treatment and a vaccine.

Multilateral Development Banks Need to Play a Bigger Role in Closing the Climate Finance Gap

Read the Climate and Energy Transition Finance Team's Latest Brief Here.

How a new climate accelerator in the World Bank can help

My Travels to Kosovo

BWC member Warren Coats recently published a new book, chronicling the work of the IMF teams he led to revive and transform the monetary system of Kosovo and some of the challenges and adventures they encountered in the process.

You can order it online now.

New Emerging Market Contagion Shakes Investor Complacency

Gary Kleiman is a recognized expert in the field of global emerging economies and financial markets. This blog is part of a special series on the coronavirus.

New Leadership and Challenges for the IMF

Wilson Center NOW speaks with Meg Lundsager and Shihoko Goto on the IMF's new leadership under Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.

New Research for Public Sector CIOs as They Prepare for Digital Assets

BWC member Michael Greenwald, global lead of digital assets and financial innovation at Amazon Web Services, writes that there's "a need to explore the issues and opportunities of adopting digital assets", and that they "must be carefully considered" by the public sector "through appropriate and educated procurement processes."

Niger and Beyond: Francophone Credit Delivers Coup de Grâce

BWC member Gary Kleiman writes on the coups in West Africa that "lost in the diplomatic and development debate is the sense of underlying debt crisis and commodity export overreliance that have long plagued the larger neighbourhood encompassing fifteen countries..."

Now and Later: The Urgent Need for Smart Finance and Clear Governance on Pandemic Threats

Eighteen months into the worst pandemic in a century, we still don’t have a credible, fully financed, time bound battle plan to bring this suffering to an end.

Offensive Friendshoring and Deteriorating US-China Relations

BWC member Hung Tran writes for the Atlantic Council that "the increasingly offensive use of an offensive US friendshoring policy will make it more challenging to manage US-China strategic competition, and make a military conflict—with disastrous global consequences—more not less likely."

Ongoing Erosion of the Global Economic Order Will Sow More Conflict and Yield No Winners

The successful crafting of the Bretton Woods global economic architecture at the end of WWII followed decades of monumental destruction, bloodshed, and misery.