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Bianca Taylor: ESG’s Beginning Is Messy, But It’s Here to Stay It’s Climate Week in New York City and the financial capital is responding to more ESG backlash. While the acronym ESG stands for “environmental, social, and governance,” what it means depends on who you ask.	Tue, Sep 20, 2022	Barron’s
Gary Kleiman: Emerging Markets Catharsis Recasts Investor Slate Emerging market asset managers are eager to put this year behind them after double-digit stock and bond index losses and net outflows from their funds. Core and frontier equities though October were down 30%, external sovereign/corporate and local government bonds from 15% to 25%, and currencies, not quite as battered as developed market counterparts by the almighty dollar, off 10%.	Mon, Nov 21, 2022	Bretton Woods Committee
Gary Kleiman: Emerging Market Finance Refugee Crisis Application: Rationale and Roadmap In 2019 the World Refugee & Migration Council issued “A Call to Action” recognizing the need for private sector innovation to meet the fiscal challenges posed by the global refugee crisis.	Wed, Jun 16, 2021	World Refugee and Migration Council
Member Monday: Element Capital BWC's newest organizational member is Element Capital Management. Element is an alternative investment manager with a "modern macro" style of global macro investing.	Mon, Feb 6, 2023	Element Capital
Mohamed El-Erian: El-Erian to become president of Queens’ College Cambridge Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz and a former investment chief of bond giant Pimco, has been named as the next president of Cambridge university’s Queens’ College.	Tue, May 28, 2019	Financial Times
Melissa T. Cook: Education: Hard Work on Soft Infrastructure There is plenty of talk about Africa’s need for more infrastructure. Most discussions focus on hard infrastructure like transportation, electricity, power, housing, and the like.	Fri, Jul 2, 2021	African Sunrise Partners LLC
Warren Coats: Econ 101: SVB and Bank Runs "The original sin of modern banking is financing long-term loans and investments with money (demand and savings deposits)," argues BWC member Warren Coats. He continues: "Money... should be fully separated from credit. Deposits should not finance loans."	Thu, Mar 16, 2023	wcoats.blog
Paul J. Sheard: ECB Strategy Review: A Tweak, a Leap, and a Missed Opportunity The European Central Bank has released the results of its 18-month monetary policy strategy review.	Tue, Jul 13, 2021	Bretton Woods Committee
C. Randall Henning: East Asia’s precautionary financing fix Southeast Asian economies, like emerging markets and developing countries globally, are anticipating a rocky financial transition out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapid tightening of monetary policy in the United States and the economic fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are causing a global recession and threatening further capital outflows from emerging markets and developing countries.	Thu, Oct 6, 2022	East Asia Forum
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Done Or Dormant? Council On Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Says ISIS Remains A Force The Trump administration says ISIS is no longer a threat. But Gayle Lemmon of the Council on Foreign Relations disagrees.	Sat, Feb 2, 2019	NPR