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Op-Ed
January 28, 2022
Consider the situation. Faced with growing fiscal stress, the government of an energy exporting country decides to cut generous subsidies, doubling the fuel price overnight.
Protestors are out on the streets, clashing violently with security forces called in to maintain law and order. They vent t...
Blog Post
January 26, 2022
Consider the situation. Faced with growing fiscal stress, the government of an energy-exporting country decides to cut generous subsidies, doubling the price of fuel overnight. Protestors are out on the streets, clashing violently with security forces called in to maintain law and order. They vent t...
Blog Post
January 20, 2022
Ongoing and looming global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change have brought renewed attention to the delivery of global public goods (GPGs)—goods that benefit the entire world and can only be provided through cooperation between countries, like public health, climate action, and ...
Blog Post
January 17, 2022
Tracking the movements of IMF special drawing rights (SDRs) can be confusing and challenging. In an effort to increase transparency around SDR transactions, the IMF released its Annual Update on SDR Trading Operations. Most of the report focuses on Voluntary Trade Arrangements, a backbone of the SDR...
Blog Post
January 11, 2022
In 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed its periodic Comprehensive Surveillance Review (CSR), which considered how the IMF should update the analysis and advice it gives member countries as part of its mandated surveillance function. In considering the review, the IMF Executiv...
Blog Post
November 17, 2021
At the outset of the pandemic, CGD launched a website, g2p-network.org to facilitate a series of working groups exploring digital payments and COVID-19 and to highlight important findings in the vast and rapidly growing array of academic and policy work on G2P systems. Today, we’re launching a ...