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Peter Woicke and Daniel Runde: It's time for an African Woman to Head the International Finance Corporation The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is an arm of the World Bank Group and is the largest development finance institution devoted to private-sector development in the world.	Mon, Jul 13, 2020	The Hill
William R. Rhodes: Conduct and Culture – Maintaining the New Mindset in a Period of Rapid Change William R. Rhodes provides his remarks from his speech at a conference hosted by 1LoD.	Wed, Jul 8, 2020	Bretton Woods Committee
Frank Vogl: Sovereign Debt and Kleptocracy - This Time It's Really Different The COVID crisis has injected a legitimate humanitarian imperative into bailing countries out of a sovereign debt crisis of historic proportions. The hastiness of the bailouts, however, is setting up all sorts of dire unintended consequences.	Wed, Jul 1, 2020	The American Interest
Carl Benedikt Frey: Democracies Have Proven They Have the Edge in Coping with this Crisis Throughout the centuries, competitors of the prevailing system have known that disaster presents them with an opportunity.	Tue, May 26, 2020	Financial Times
William R. Rhodes and Stuart P.M. Mackintosh: Debt Crisis will Delay Global Recovery The Covid-19 pandemic will spark hugely damaging debt defaults in developing countries, hampering rebuilding and recovery.	Thu, May 28, 2020	Reuters
Lawrence Summers: Covid-19 Looks like a Hinge in History The Covid-19 crisis is the third major shock to the global system in the 21st century, following the 2001 terror attacks and the 2008 financial crisis. I suspect it is by far the most significant.	Thu, May 14, 2020	Financial Times
Susanna Cafaro: Supranational Democracy Dialogues The Supranational Democracy Dialogues, dealing with the future of Europe and of global governance, but also of humanity as one big interconnected family, as the virus showed once more.	Fri, May 8, 2020	Bretton Woods Committee
Daniela Bassan: Covid-19 and Legal Institutions: Courting Accessibility and Efficiency Daniela Bassan, Q.C. is a Partner and Practice Group Chair at the law firm of Stewart McKelvey (Canada) where she focuses on complex, multi-jurisdictional dispute resolution. This blog is a part of special series on the coronavirus.	Thu, Apr 23, 2020	Bretton Woods Committee
Dee Smith and Raoul Pal: Beyond the Brink - Live with Dee Smith & Raoul Pal What does life look like on the other side of COVID-19? This is a question that just about everybody on the planet is asking themselves at this point in time.	Tue, Apr 21, 2020	Real Vision
Carl Benedikt Frey: Covid-19 Will Only Increase Automation Anxiety Historically, depressions have inflamed automation anxiety. Wars, in contrast, often end them. In the US, the machinery debates of the 1920s and 30s began with labour secretary James J. Davis’s famous 1927 speech.	Tue, Apr 21, 2020	Financial Times