MDGs New 12/08/2018 – by Belay Begashaw Think globally, act globally Millennium Development Goals shaped new global partnership Read
Global trends New 09/08/2018 – by Imme Scholz, Katja Dombrowski “Change can be measured, the reasons for it cannot” Developing countries now have more room for manoeuvre – industrialised countries do not always see that as a positive Read
Green industrial policy New 05/08/2018 – by Tilman Altenburg Reducing poverty whilst transitioning to a green economy The double challenge of generating growth and transitioning to clean economies Read
Debt restructuring New 04/08/2018 – by Jürgen Kaiser Alternative structural adjustment The IMF needs to reform if it wants to maintain its legitimacy Read
Economic policy New 03/08/2018 – by Jürgen Kaiser Interfering in national sovereignty Shortcomings and weaknesses of the structural-adjustment measures of recent decades Read
Failed policies New 01/08/2018 – by Ndongo Samba Sylla Descent into hell In Africa, structural adjustment did not trigger fast growth, but had a contractive impact Read
International financial institutions 25/07/2018 – by Jürgen Zattler More efficient multilateralism IMF and Worldbank must heed lessons of past decades Read
Policy doctrines 21/07/2018 – by Hans Dembowski Straight talk on economics Harvard economist Dani Rodrik demands policy space for developing countries Read
Economic policymaking 14/07/2018 – by Salman Anees Soz, Hans Dembowski Low-hanging fruit In the early 1990s, India’s economic reforms triggered high growth rates for the long term Read
Crisis lending 13/07/2018 – by Hans Dembowski, Iwan J. Azis Two lessons from structural adjustment Indonesian economist looks back at IMF conditions in Asian crisis Read
Emergency relief 05/07/2018 – by Okello Ciro “One of the greatest tragedies of our time” Years of civil war have left South Sudan’s citizens with hunger and displacement Read
