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Dambisa Moyo :The Precarious Global Debt PictureA critical issue policymakers need to address urgently is the amount of debt plaguing the UK, the US and the global economy, and the impact the growing status of China as creditor to both the west and the developing world will have on that. |
Wed, Oct 28, 2020 | Financial Times
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Diana Farrell:The Potential Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Families, Small Businesses, and CommunitiesDiana Farrell, Fiona Greig, and Chris Wheat give insights from five years of big data research. |
Tue, Mar 31, 2020 | JPMorgan Chase Institute |
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Monica de Bolle, Chad P. Bown, and Maurice Obstfeld:The Pandemic Is Not Under Control Anywhere Unless It Is Controlled EverywhereHigh-income countries have cornered global supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, but they are clashing with one another over hoarding their doses, while sending poor countries to the back of the line. |
Wed, Feb 3, 2021 | PIIE Insider
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Daniel Yergin:The Oil Collapse: A Pandemic and a Price War Have Together Brought Energy Markets to a CrisisThe global oil market has never in history collapsed as precipitously as it has right now. The oil and gas industry, which provides almost 60 percent of the world’s energy, is engulfed in a double crisis that would have been dismissed as unthinkable at the start of this year. |
Thu, Apr 2, 2020 | Foreign Affairs
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Afsaneh Beschloss:The Next World Bank President Has a Huge Task on Their Hands"From climate change to reconstruction, the institution has failed to tackle a range of urgent challenges," writes BWC board member Afsaneh Beschloss. Whoever succeeds Malpass will do much to decide whether this fabled institution ultimately perishes or survives, she argues. |
Wed, Feb 22, 2023 | Financial Times
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Barbara Matthews:The Next 75 Years – Coping with Decentralization and Geopolitical RebalancingThe Bretton Woods 75th anniversary coincides with accelerating angst regarding rising populism and growing backlash against multilateralism. |
Tue, Mar 5, 2019 | Bretton Woods Committee |
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John Taylor:The new IMF head should not be dictated by the tired, old, EU orderIt is not easy to predict where financial stresses that require alleviation by the IMF will emerge next, or what form the mitigation strategies will take. Almost certainly, though, after a period of extremely easy liquidity and associated leveraging in financial markets, the call on IMF advice and resources will be greater than in the past. Its support will have to take new forms. It will also have to sell economic-policy packages to a governing body from an increasingly multipolar world. |
Sun, Aug 11, 2019 | Financial Times
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Anthony Elson:The Need for WTO ReformThe recent WTO Ministerial Conference MC12 that concluded on June 17 has been hailed as an important achievement of the WTO, given its agreement on a number of substantive issues that have been under discussion for some time, as listed in the MC12 Outcome Document. |
Mon, Jul 18, 2022 | The Bretton Woods Committee |
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Nouriel Roubini:The Looming Stagflationary Debt CrisisYears 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
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Lawrence Summers:The left’s embrace of modern monetary theory is a recipe for disasterThere is widespread frustration with the performance of the economy. Traditional policy approaches are not delivering hoped-for results. |
Tue, Mar 5, 2019 | The Washington Post
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