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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

How to Prevent the Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis

This year is likely to prove very difficult for those low-income and emerging-market countries that have been heavy borrowers in the sovereign debt market. A series of crises concentrated in these countries seems virtually inevitable.

How to Make the Global Economy Work for Everyone

A period of unprecedented prosperity is threatened by a sense that not everyone benefits from integration.

Since the end of World War II, a broad consensus in support of global economic integration as a force for peace and prosperity has been a pillar of the international order.

How the Transatlantic Trade Agenda Can Get Its Groove Back in 2020

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Donald J. Trump articulated an ambitious—and familiar—trade policy agenda in Davos on January 21.  Once again, Brussels and Washington will attempt to negotiate a bilateral free trade deal. 

How the ECB can tackle fragmentation in the eurozone

The European Central Bank is faced with a dilemma. It needs to tighten monetary policy in order to rein in unexpectedly high inflation and at the same time prevent fragmentation of financial markets across the eurozone.

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How multilateral development banks can deliver climate action

The 2022 Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC will take place against perhaps the bleakest background in decades, from the aftermath of COVID-19 to the war in Ukraine, climate change and inflation pressures.