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Warren Coats: Proposal for an IMF Staff Executive Board Paper on Promoting Market SDRs Few initiatives would be more in keeping with the spirit and goals of the Bretton Woods Committee than the development of wide spread use of a truly international currency—the IMF’s SDR.	Tue, Feb 19, 2019	Bretton Woods Committee
James M. Boughton: Can We Expect a “New Bretton Woods”? As the world economy and its governance structure continue to evolve at an accelerating rate, calls for reform of multilateral institutions are growing louder.	Tue, Feb 5, 2019	Bretton Woods Committee
Frank Vogl: The Double-Standard Raised by the Corruption Perception Index Denmark ranks Number 1 as the least corrupt in the Transparency International 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index published yesterday.	Wed, Jan 30, 2019	The Globalist
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
Kevin Gallagher: China must calibrate overseas lending towards Paris climate goals With the demise of US leadership on climate change, China enters this week’s Conference of the Parties to the Paris climate agreement poised to take the mantle as the world’s leader on energy and climate change.	Thu, Dec 13, 2018	Financial Times
Dambisa Moyo: The African Threat Although international engagement with Africa has evolved over time, it has never succeeded in putting the region on a path toward long-term and sustainable growth and development. Today, continued failure could expose the world to a new age of pandemics, terror, and mass migration	Fri, Nov 23, 2018	Project Syndicate
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
Dee Smith: Modern Manipulation: Behavioral Economics in a Technological World Raoul Pal sits down with Dee Smith of Strategic Insight Group to cover a host of problems facing the world today. In particular, they tackle the issue of technology companies and state actors using behavioral economics to shape the world to their advantage.	Thu, Sep 13, 2018	Real Vision
Marsha J. Vande Berg: Asia’s emerging markets hold the keys to sustainable investment Japan’s newly re-elected prime minister, Shinzo Abe did not mince words in a recent article that led the Financial Times opinion page: Environmental risks are exacerbating. More robust action is needed. “And swiftly.”	Mon, Oct 1, 2018	Bretton Woods Committee
Lutfey Siddiqi: Asian Emerging Markets in the era of Infinity War It was just a year ago that Argentina issued a 100-year bond which offered a dollar coupon of less than eight percent for which, there was three times as much demand as supply. Shortly afterwards, major investment banks issued their outlook for 2018.	Mon, Oct 1, 2018	Bretton Woods Committee