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George Soros and Chris Canavan:Pandemic Requires Comprehensive Debt StandstillsEmerging-market economies must be allowed to defer all payments to international creditors — official and private — for at least one year. The Covid-19 pandemic is a one-two financial punch for developing economies. |
Thu, Apr 16, 2020 | Bloomberg | Opinion | |
William Jannace:P.R.I.M.E. Finance Panel AppointmentBWC member William Jannace has been newly appointed to the P.R.I.M.E. Finance Panel, a panel of legal and financial experts in the documentation, law, and market practice for derivatives and other complex financial products. |
Wed, Dec 21, 2022 | P.R.I.M.E. Finance | |
Mark Sobel:Outlook 2024: More commotion than motion in foreign exchange marketsThe BWC is pleased to Member Spotlight a recent OMFIF article by Mark Sobel suggesting to 'prepare for anaemic global growth and geopolitical turbulence' in 2024. According to Sobel, "The 2024 global economic outlook is less than stellar. Enormous growth, macroeconomic policy and geopolitical uncertainties pervade the outlook and foreign exchange markets. How this plays out is anybody’s guess." |
Fri, Jan 5, 2024 | OMFIF |
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Nathan Sheets:Outlook 2021: Biden Must Adopt Multilateral Tactics for China PolicyRelations between the US and China will remain fraught, albeit more diplomatic |
Tue, Jan 12, 2021 | OMFIF |
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Nancy Lee, San Bilal, Manuel Bueno and Valeria Ramundo Orlando :Opinion: How Can DFIs Do More to Help MSMEs Survive Covid-19?The global scale of the COVID-19 crisis threatens micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises, which dominate employment around the world — especially in lowest-income countries. |
Wed, Nov 18, 2020 | Devex |
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Gary Kleiman of Kleiman Intl Consultants Inc:OPINION: Afghanistan’s neighbours recast refugee finance formulaThe US airlift of Afghanistan refugees drew parallels most notably to its post-Vietnam predecessor four decades ago, and the country’s displacement crisis has lingered among the world’s longest running and biggest at 5mn before the Taliban’s return to power. It follows the Syria and Venezuela exoduses, also of historic proportions, with international aid delivery chronically half short of pledges, and private investors grappling with economic and financial implications when market performance was not a reference in the immediate aftermath. |
Sat, Oct 16, 2021 | bne IntelliNews |
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William Rhodes and Stuart Mackintosh:Op-ed: The four big threats to China’s economyWe should all care what happens in China, because it will affect us all. Economic dangers and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s responses to them will affect China first and foremost — but trouble in China could spell trouble everywhere this year and next. The world is rightly focused on the atrocities being committed by Russia in Ukraine, and China’s choice to stand with Russia is straining globalization’s links. But China’s economic challenges go beyond the war. Threats to China’s outlook are rising in four distinct but overlapping areas: at home, in health, in debt, and in a fracturing globe. |
Wed, Apr 27, 2022 | CNBC |
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Scott Morris:Only the U.S. and China Can Stave off Debt DisasterThere’s one area where the U.S. and China can and should cooperate immediately, however: to head off a looming debt crisis that threatens to hurl millions into poverty. |
Mon, Dec 7, 2020 | Bloomberg | |
Joerg Bibow:Ongoing Erosion of the Global Economic Order Will Sow More Conflict and Yield No WinnersThe successful crafting of the Bretton Woods global economic architecture at the end of WWII followed decades of monumental destruction, bloodshed, and misery. |
Mon, Apr 1, 2019 | Bretton Woods Committee | |
Hung Tran:Offensive Friendshoring and Deteriorating US-China RelationsBWC member Hung Tran writes for the Atlantic Council that "the increasingly offensive use of an offensive US friendshoring policy will make it more challenging to manage US-China strategic competition, and make a military conflict—with disastrous global consequences—more not less likely." |
Fri, Feb 24, 2023 | Atlantic Council |