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Caitlin Long: CNBC's Power Lunch on Bankman-Fried Trial and Crypto BWC member Caitlin Long joined CNBC’s Power Lunch to explain her take on the implications of Sam Bankman-Fried’s upcoming trial on cryptocurrencies.	Thu, Jan 5, 2023	CNBC
Anna Breman and Stefan Ingves: Climate: IMF conditionality could increase the speed and efficiency of climate financing Last year, the members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved an allocation of special drawing rights (SDRs) of USD 650 billion, the largest allocation in the history of the IMF. Since then, a new financing instrument at the IMF is being discussed, largely financed by these new SDRs.	Fri, May 20, 2022	The Bretton Woods Committee
Kevin P. Gallagher, Luma Ramos, Corinne Stephenson-Johnson, and Irene Monasterolo: Climate Change and IMF Surveillance: The Need for Ambition The International Monetary Fund (IMF) needs to rapidly devise a climate change strategy that helps its members meet their collective climate change and development goals.	Wed, Mar 17, 2021	BU Global Development Policy Center
Marjo Koivisto and Daria Taglioni: Circular Business in the Global Economy: Priority on Redesign Aside from accelerating decarbonization of industries, a key priority in the global economy today is to reduce the use of virgin materials. In discussions over the circular economy (CE), emphasis is usually put on “reusing” and “recycling”. Instead, for CE to grow sufficiently to avert the grim projections of the global economy running out of materials within decades, more pervasive change is needed. The notion that products and materials that depreciate slower are more valuable must be better internalized by their industrial and household consumers.	Wed, Feb 24, 2021	The Bretton Woods Committee
Lawrence H. Summers: Christine Lagarde enters the European Central Bank at a perilous moment Lawrence H. Summers is a professor at and past president of Harvard University. He was treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and an economic adviser to President Barack Obama from 2009 through 2010.	Mon, Jul 8, 2019	The Washington Post
William Rhodes: China’s impending Minsky moment Two years ago, Zhou Xiaochuan, then China’s central bank governor, told a press conference at the 19th Communist party Congress in Beijing that too many procyclical factors in the economy and excessive optimism risked generating “accumulating contradictions that could lead to the so-called Minsky moment”.	Sun, Dec 29, 2019	Financial Times
BWC Vice Chair William Rhodes and G30 Executive Director Stuart P.M. Mackintosh: China's Self-Destructive Tech Takedown China’s leaders think that they can crack down on the country’s private technology sector and still deliver material progress as state-owned companies take over. But by reversing the policies that enabled decades of rapid growth, they risk imperiling the unique economic model they seek to sustain.	Tue, Oct 12, 2021	Bretton Woods Committee
Lourdes Casanova: China's Reforms Move May Just Be Bargaining Chip for US Negotiators China is coherent with their plan to be an open economy and its belief in the power of globalization.	Fri, Jul 5, 2019	Voice of America
Helen Qiao: China Would Be Able to Double Its GDP by 2035, Says Bank of America China has stood out as one of the fastest-growing economies amid the Covid-19 pandemic, says Helen Qiao of Bank of America in an interview with CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”	Fri, Feb 26, 2021	CNBC
Kevin Gallagher: China must calibrate overseas lending towards Paris climate goals With the demise of US leadership on climate change, China enters this week’s Conference of the Parties to the Paris climate agreement poised to take the mantle as the world’s leader on energy and climate change.	Thu, Dec 13, 2018	Financial Times