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Masood Ahmed: Low-Income Countries Need a Boost for the Recovery. Here's How the IMF Can Step Up Most observers gave the IMF high marks for its initial response to the COVID-19 crisis. It responded quickly with emergency financing to 86 countries, including a fivefold increase in its concessional lending to low-income countries (LICs).	Mon, May 3, 2021	Center for Global Development
Jason Furman, Jacob J. Lew, Maria Demertzis, Marcel Fratzscher, Rana Foroohar: Comparing the US and EU Response to the COVID-19 Economic Crisis On April 12, BWC member Jason Furman, Jacob J. Lew, Maria Demertzis, and Marcel Fratzscher joined Rana Foroohar to discuss the US-EU fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic.	Mon, Apr 12, 2021	Atlantic Council
Catherine L. Mann, Jonathan Goldberg, Inosi Nyatta and Edward Morse: The State of Energy Finance On April 21, BWC member Catherine L. Mann (Citigroup) joined Jonathan Goldberg (Carbon Direct), Inosi Nyatta (Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP), and Edward Morse (Citigroup, moderator) to explore various issues within the world of energy finance, including how the market is evolving, how to define "green finance", and additional relevant policy issues.	Wed, Apr 21, 2021	Our Energy Policy
Lyric Hughes Hale and Paul Sheard: Hale Report Podcast with Paul Sheard Our guest is the eminent economist Paul Sheard, Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center, an expert in both monetary policy and the Japanese economy.	Fri, Apr 16, 2021	Econvue
Nathan Sheets: How Long Will the Great Reflation Trade Last? Analysts expect the global economy to expand by 6% or more this year, the fastest pace in decades. The US will lead the way, but growth in Europe should also bounce back as the year progresses. And, of course, the Chinese economy will record another solid performance.	Mon, Apr 12, 2021	OMFIF
William R. Rhodes and Stuart Mackintosh: Europe's Halfway Banking Reforms Have Run Out of Time Europe’s banking sector continues to be shaken by scandals and failures.	Tue, Apr 6, 2021	Bloomberg Opinion - Quint
Mark Sobel and David Dollar: America Needs a Positive IMF Agenda How will a new allocation of special drawing rights affect the global economy?	Mon, Mar 29, 2021	The Brookings Institution
Klaas Knot: International Spillovers and the ECB’s Monetary Policy On Saturday, 27 March 2021, Klaas Knot joined a panel of the CF40, Euro50 Group and PIIE conference on “The Dollar, the Euro and the Renminbi in the new geopolitical environment”.	Sat, Mar 27, 2021	De Nederlandsche Bank
Paul Sheard: Don't Worry About Inflation A lot of people are worrying that all the money governments and central banks are printing to deal with the Covid-induced recession is bound to lead to runaway inflation in the future.	Fri, Mar 26, 2021	Briefings for Britain
Nancy Lee, Scott Morris, Clemence Landers, and Erin Collinson: $1.9 Trillion and No Money for the Multilateral Development Banks? The Biden administration and the Congress rightly went big in the recently passed American Rescue Plan at a time of tremendous need.	Mon, Mar 22, 2021	Center for Global Development