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Mohamed A. El-Erian: What Venezuela Needs The widespread electricity outages that hit Venezuela on Friday were yet another reminder of an already tragic situation that is getting worse by the day, taking the country ever closer to the line that separates a fragile state from a failed and collapsed one.	Tue, Mar 12, 2019	Bloomberg
Bill Dudley: What It Will Take for the Fed to Tame Inflation Developments in the US economy have recently been going the Federal Reserve’s way, with price pressures peaking even as economic growth and strong payroll gains have been sustained. But don’t be fooled: The task of getting inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target remains extremely daunting, both practically and politically.	Thu, Jul 14, 2022	Bretton Woods Committee
Scott Morris: What happens when development cooperation becomes development competition Development cooperation has been a common thread running through the geography of aid agreements of recent years: from the Busan Partnership to the Paris Declaration and on to the Accra Agenda. If there is one thing that major donor countries have agreed on, it’s the need to cooperate, with developing country “partners” and with each other when it comes to the delivery of development assistance.	Fri, Nov 16, 2018	Brookings
Jacob L. Lew, Lawrence H. Summers, and others: We Ran the Treasury Department. This Is How to Fix Tax Evasion Six hundred billion dollars per year, and growing	Wed, Jun 9, 2021	The New York Times
James Bacchus: We Need A Way Back To Multilateralism In Trade James Bacchus is the former Chief Judge of the Appellate Body of the WTO in Geneva and a contributing author to the Bretton [email protected] Compendium.	Tue, Jul 16, 2019	Cato Institute
Lawrence Summers : We must prepare now for the likelihood of a recession When people are fundamentally healthy, they do not yet know what will cause their death. An economic recovery is healthy if it is not clear what will cause the next recession.	Mon, Jan 7, 2019	Financial Times
Bianca Taylor: Ways to Nudge Equitable Climate Finance Forward Last month COP27 came to a close with a historic announcement to establish a loss and damage fund, where rich countries pledge financial support to countries most vulnerable to the climate crisis.	Mon, Dec 12, 2022	Bretton Woods Committee
Harry G. Broadman: Washington’s Oil Price Cap Won’t Work-And Putin Knows It For the past several months the U.S. has been shopping around to other advanced democracies a coordinated scheme to place a cap on the price Russia can charge on its energy exports to deprive Putin of revenues fueling his war in Ukraine.		Forbes
William R. Rhodes: Warning Signs of a "Volcker Moment" Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who was my longtime friend and officemate, died at the end of 2019 before Covid-19 swept the planet.	Mon, Jun 14, 2021	Reuters Breakingviews
Gary Kleiman: War-Torn Country Banking Systems Beg Repair Small policy decisions and temporary fixes are often offered at the beginning of a conflict, but IFIs need to begin making larger reforms sooner instead of postponing them. This way, economic systems can heal holistically instead of receiving temporary band-aids.	Thu, Mar 3, 2022	The Bretton Woods Committee