Member Views

Hung Tran

The Bretton Woods Committee is pleased to Member Spotlight Hung Tran's latest piece in the Atlantic Council "Understading the Debate Over IMF Quota Reform."  The article discusses the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) decision to approve a 50 percent increase in the Fund's quota resources, with contributions from members in proportion to their current share holdings.

HSBC Holdings plc

Lastly this week we welcome new member HSBC Holdings plc.

HSBC operates in sixty-two countries and territories across the world, and it is the largest bank based in Europe by assets.

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

HRH Ambassador Ossai Ifeanyi, PhD

This Member Monday we welcome new member UN-PEPOLAC Ambassador HRH Ossai Ifeanyi.

HRH Ambassador Ossai Ifeanyi, Ph.D., serves as a UN Ambassador for World Peace at the United Nations Peace and Positive Living Awareness Centre, dedicated to promoting the UN General Assembly’s declarations, programs, and SDGs.

We appreciate his commitment and support, and we look forward to his engagement with The Bretton Woods Committee. 

How will ‘friendshoring’ impact global trade in 2024?

The Bretton Woods Committee is pleased to Member Spotlight Hung Tran's recent interview with The Banker for a new article titled "How will ‘friendshoring’ impact global trade in 2024?" 

According to the article, "Trade costs are expected to rise as political proximity increasingly trumps commercial convenience for the US and China."

How US Trade Policy Can Support Climate Change Goals

Responding to President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s charge to Cabinet members to contribute to the effort to decarbonize the US economy, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai has put forward useful proposals on how trade policy can support solutions to global warming.

How to Prevent the Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis

This year is likely to prove very difficult for those low-income and emerging-market countries that have been heavy borrowers in the sovereign debt market. A series of crises concentrated in these countries seems virtually inevitable.

How to Make the Global Economy Work for Everyone

A period of unprecedented prosperity is threatened by a sense that not everyone benefits from integration.

Since the end of World War II, a broad consensus in support of global economic integration as a force for peace and prosperity has been a pillar of the international order.

How the Transatlantic Trade Agenda Can Get Its Groove Back in 2020

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Donald J. Trump articulated an ambitious—and familiar—trade policy agenda in Davos on January 21.  Once again, Brussels and Washington will attempt to negotiate a bilateral free trade deal. 

How the IMF can navigate great power rivalry

BWC member Hung Tran recently published an issue brief with the Atlantic Council titled How the IMF can navigate great power rivalry. The work addresses how power competition has raised mistrust and undermined cooperation as well as explores how policies to promote de-risking have deviated from the IMF template and how systems are coping with the consequences of fragmentation.

How the ECB can tackle fragmentation in the eurozone

The European Central Bank is faced with a dilemma. It needs to tighten monetary policy in order to rein in unexpectedly high inflation and at the same time prevent fragmentation of financial markets across the eurozone.

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