Member Views | The Bretton Woods Committee

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James Bacchus: We Need A Way Back To Multilateralism In Trade James Bacchus is the former Chief Judge of the Appellate Body of the WTO in Geneva and a contributing author to the Bretton [email protected] Compendium.	Tue, Jul 16, 2019	Cato Institute
Jacob L. Lew, Lawrence H. Summers, and others: We Ran the Treasury Department. This Is How to Fix Tax Evasion Six hundred billion dollars per year, and growing	Wed, Jun 9, 2021	The New York Times
Scott Morris: What happens when development cooperation becomes development competition Development cooperation has been a common thread running through the geography of aid agreements of recent years: from the Busan Partnership to the Paris Declaration and on to the Accra Agenda. If there is one thing that major donor countries have agreed on, it’s the need to cooperate, with developing country “partners” and with each other when it comes to the delivery of development assistance.	Fri, Nov 16, 2018	Brookings
Bill Dudley: What It Will Take for the Fed to Tame Inflation Developments in the US economy have recently been going the Federal Reserve’s way, with price pressures peaking even as economic growth and strong payroll gains have been sustained. But don’t be fooled: The task of getting inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target remains extremely daunting, both practically and politically.	Thu, Jul 14, 2022	Bretton Woods Committee
Mohamed A. El-Erian: What Venezuela Needs The widespread electricity outages that hit Venezuela on Friday were yet another reminder of an already tragic situation that is getting worse by the day, taking the country ever closer to the line that separates a fragile state from a failed and collapsed one.	Tue, Mar 12, 2019	Bloomberg
Richard Hurowitz: What We Can Learn Today From a 1944 Meeting That Reshaped the Entire Global Economy Hurowitz is a writer, investor and publisher of the Octavian Report, the quarterly magazine of ideas	Mon, Jul 1, 2019	TIME
Susan Lund: What's changed since the 2008 financial crisis in four charts This month will mark the 10-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse. In many ways, the global financial system is better off as a result of the extraordinary stabilization measures taken after 2008. But some familiar risks are creeping back, and new ones have emerged.	Mon, Sep 10, 2018	LinkedIn
Pierre Viaud: Where Are We Going? Fundamentals of Defense Foresight “Uncontrolled displacements of populations... are reversible thanks to a coordinated action of world governance, in particular through the IFIs resulting from the Bretton Woods treaty," writes BWC member Pierre Viaud in this month's issue of Revue Défense Nationale.	Thu, Mar 9, 2023	Revue Défense Nationale
Warren Coats: Whither Libra? Every other day, it seems, we witness the launch of a new crypto (digital) currency. Each combines a medium of exchange and a means of payment.	Wed, Jul 24, 2019	Warren’s space
William R. Rhodes: Who Is to Blame for the New Banking Crisis? BWC vice-chair William Rhodes: "a good deal of it lies with the former Trump administration and those members of Congress who listened to bank lobbyists and decided it would be wise to lighten the regulatory and capital burden on so-called smaller banks."	Fri, Mar 17, 2023	Project Syndicate