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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.

Egypt Hot Money Skips Happy Ending Encore

"Egypt could be a model for the broader region if it manages eventually to float the pound, embark on wide-scale privatization, and minimize fiscal and current account deficits, but the near-term adjustments will be wrenching", writes BWC member Gary Kleiman.

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.

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. 

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.

Emerging Market Migration Bonds Repair US-EU Model

BWC member Gary Kleiman writes in bne IntelliNews that emerging market migration bonds are repairing the model.

"The... concept is to create a commercial long term cash stream thus far absent in the debate... priced at a discount from standard sovereign ones..."

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%.

Emmanuel Lagarrigue

This week we also welcome new member Emmanuel Lagarrigue, partner & co-head of global climate at KKR.

He previously worked at Schneider Electric for over twenty-seven years.

We appreciate his support for our work and mission, and we look forward to his engagement!

Episode 155: Debt Isn't Everything

The Bretton Woods Committee is pleased to Member Spotlight Paul Sheard's recent guest appearance on the Inside Economics podcast where he and Mark Zandi dug into the February CPI report for the US to talk inflation and how to think about the nation's fiscal deficits. Learn more and listen to Episode 155: Debt isn't Everything

Episode 394: Where Money Comes From with Paul Sheard

The Bretton Woods Committee is pleased to Member Spotlight Paul Sheard's recent guest appearance on the 'unSILOed' podcast hosted by Greg LaBanc. In Episode 394: Where Money Comes From, Paul and Greg chat about the common misconceptions around how money is made and injected into the economy, government debt, and the role of quantitative easing.