CHART OF THE WEEKPutting Public Investment to Work
For countries on the path to recovery, reviving economic activity is a major priority. And what better way to support a come-back than by creating jobs. […]
Coming Together
By Vitor Gaspar and Gita Gopinath
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Differences in vaccine access and the ability to deploy policy support are creating a growing […]
Managing the Political Economy of Climate Change Policies
By Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier, and Jonathan D. Ostry
Few issues have sparked more attention than how to avoid environmental and human catastrophe from climate change. […]
Chart of the WeekHow To Escape The Perils of Fragility
By Olusegun Akanbi, Kenji Moriyama, Keyra Primus
Already facing huge development needs, the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the challenges facing fragile and conflict states—a group of currently about 40 countries trapped […]
How the Pandemic Widened Global Current Account Balances
By Martin Kaufman and Daniel Leigh
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2020 was a year of extremes. Travel all but ceased for […]
Making The Digital Money Revolution Work for All
By Tobias Adrian and Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli
History moves in uneven steps. Just as the telegraph erased time and distance in the 19th century, today’s innovations in digital money may bring significant […]
Cryptoassets as National Currency? A Step Too Far
By Tobias Adrian and Rhoda Weeks-Brown
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New digital forms of money have the potential to provide cheaper and faster […]
Stepping Up to Meet Low-Income Countries’ Pandemic Recovery Needs
By Christian Mumssen and Seán Nolan
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Low-income countries have been hard hit by the pandemic. Their large financing needs […]