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Mohamed A. El-Erian and Dambisa Moyo: Fuzzynomics and 12 Other Attempts to Name Our New Era In hindsight, our new economic era probably began in 2008, when a handful of bankers — and the policymakers who write the rules — broke the system.	Fri, Jul 23, 2021	Foreign Policy
Masood Ahmed and Amanda Glassman: Now and Later: The Urgent Need for Smart Finance and Clear Governance on Pandemic Threats Eighteen months into the worst pandemic in a century, we still don’t have a credible, fully financed, time bound battle plan to bring this suffering to an end.	Fri, Jul 9, 2021	Center for Global Development
Laura D. Tyson and Bruce R. Guile: Innovation-Based Economic Security To benefit from today’s globalized research and development, the United States needs to make science and technology policies an integral part of economic security.	Wed, Jul 21, 2021	Issues
Scott Morris and David Mihalyi: Visualizing the Debt Service Drag on Developing Country Governments The G7 countries pledged a massive scale-up in support of developing-country financing at their recent summit in the UK.	Mon, Jul 19, 2021	Center for Global Development
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	The Bretton Woods Committee
C. Randall Henning: Designing Institutional Collaboration into Global Governance Global governance is largely, albeit not exclusively, a matter of collaboration among international institutions.	Mon, Jul 12, 2021	Centre for International Governance Innovation
Nouriel Roubini: The Looming Stagflationary Debt Crisis Years of ultra-loose fiscal and monetary policies have put the global economy on track for a slow-motion train wreck in the coming years. When the crash comes, the stagflation of the 1970s will be combined with the spiraling debt crises of the post-2008 era, leaving major central banks in an impossible position.	Wed, Jun 30, 2021	Project Syndicate
Danny Leipziger: Can the West Counter the BRI? It is no secret that the West is exceedingly uncomfortable with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (the BRI) and its role in building infrastructure in developing countries, and for good reasons. The terms of these investments by China’s parastatal banks are opaque and recent research reveals that contracts include non-disclosure covenants to keep them so. That said, it is China that is pouring the most money into infrastructure investments into Sub-Saharan Africa in particular in a way that no one else can match.	Thu, Jul 8, 2021	The Bretton Woods Committee
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
Mark Sobel: Dollar’s Global Role: Extraordinary Privilege or Burden? Exaggerated debate is often conflated with other factors	Thu, Jul 1, 2021	OMFIF