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  • Call for Papers: JGD Special Issue on Climate Change and Development

    06/01/23   Meeting

    JGD Special Issue on Climate Change and Development

    The biggest developmental challenge facing the world today is climate change and global warming. For keeping the world below the 1.50 C threshold of global warming, it is necessary to end the rising emission before 2025. COP26 provided serious push towards this goal, where more than 130 countries committed to achieve Net Zero between 2050 and...

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  • A New State in Latin America? Geopolitical, Energy, and Social Challenges

    04/24/23 - 04/24/23   Meeting

    Join us for a roundtable discussion on geopolitics, energy policy, and social challenges in Latin America. Panelists include two former ministers, along with two specialists in Latin American policy.

  • Roundtable of experts on Sovereign Debt

    04/03/23   Meeting

    The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in sharp increases in public debt across the globe. Rising public debt levels of Emerging Markets and Developing Countries (EMDCs) are particularly worrying, with debt vulnerabilities being high in absolute terms and relative to pre-pandemic levels. The United Nations (UN) reports that around 60% of least...

  • Regulating Big Tech: Lessons from Around the World

    03/30/23   Meeting

    The world’s largest tech companies—so-called “digital giants”—have become a source of global concern, both because of their market power and the “digital harms” to which they give rise. Yet regulation is not easy. Panelists will discuss a report from the Center on Regulation in Europe on prospects and frameworks for tech regulation and consider...

  • Avoiding the Global Debt Trap featuring Martin Guzman

    03/29/23   Meeting

    Avoiding the Global Debt Trap featuring Martin Guzman Image

    Public debt is piling up across the world, especially in the Global South, raising the risk of debt crises. As Argentina’s minister of economy from December 2019 to July 2022, Martín Guzmán managed a sovereign debt crisis and the second largest debt restructuring in history. Guzmán will share his thoughts on how countries can manage these crises going forward.

  • 2022 IMF/WB Annual Meetings - Side Event “Winds of change: the future of tax reforms in Latin America”

    10/13/22   Meeting

    Inflation, high debt levels, recession and large fiscal deficits are amplifying inequality and extreme poverty worldwide. Countries are responding with spending cuts that will hurt the poor. However, Chile and Colombia are among the few countries taking an alternative path: taxing wealth which could bring more progressive and redistributive...

  • 2022 IMF/WB Annual Meetings - Side Event “Avoiding Austerity in a Time of Compounding Crises”

    10/12/22 - 10/12/22   Meeting

    Governments are facing a disrupted recovery due to the spread of new Omicron variants, the impacts of the Ukraine war, surging inflation and interest rates and increased risk of debt distress. Expansionary recovery fiscal policies are turning into fiscal consolidation in most countries and spending in essential public services is threatened....

  • The Global South Under Debt Distress

    10/11/22   Meeting

    The Global South Under Debt Distress Image

    Following four decades of mismanaged globalization, the world economy has recently been hit by two massive shocks—the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, that create massive challenges for a number of countries in the Global South that will be under debt distress. The Federal Reserve interest rate hikes will create additional tensions for debt sustainability in the context of a global financial architecture that for decades was conducive to the too little and too late syndrome in...

  • Resolving Macroeconomic Debt Crises After Four Decades of Mismanaged Globalization

    10/11/22   Meeting

    Resolving Macroeconomic Debt Crises After Four Decades of Mismanaged Globalization Image

    Following four decades of mismanaged globalization, the world economy has recently been hit by two massive shocks—the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, that create massive challenges for a number of countries in the Global South that will be under debt distress. The Federal Reserve interest rate hikes will create additional tensions for debt sustainability in the context of a global financial architecture that for decades was conducive to the too little and too late syndrome in...

  • Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Speaks at Knowledge Forum on Global Economy in Multiple Crises

    10/07/22   Meeting

    Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Speaks at Knowledge Forum on Global Economy in Multiple Crises Image

    Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz spoke on "The Global Economy in Multiple Crises: Challenges for Emerging and Developing Countries and Pathways to Enhanced Resilience" at the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute) in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2022. The talk was part of the JICA Ogata Research Institute Knowledge Forum series of events. The forum looked at how emerging and developing countries can recover from the turmoil of the...

  • An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment

    09/30/22   Meeting

    Vienna, Austria

    An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment Image

    Covid-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, inflation, supply chain problems, food shortages and worsening climate events have upended global systems and forever changed people’s lives. The old approaches to what governments should do and how the international economic system should work, based on neoliberalism, won’t work as a way forward, especially as we enter a new Cold War, and an era in which the need for global cooperation is ever more apparent. We must chart a new course, one in which...

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