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Blog Post
April 29, 2020
Even as the COVID-19 curve begins to flatten in the Northern Hemisphere, the developing world is just starting to feel its onslaught. Just as in the United States, where some of the most effective responses to the global pandemic are generated locally, the success of developing countries will also b...
Blog Post
April 17, 2020
Virtually all countries in the world have responded to the COVID-19 crisis by implementing fiscal and monetary measures, significantly larger in relation to national output than those employed during the 2008 financial crisis. The magnitude of fiscal measures to counter the shock varies across devel...
Blog Post
April 16, 2020
Think tanks are supposed to float new ideas to make government work better. One such crazy idea that started with Ben Leo and me turned into the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). How did this possibly happen? And what might we learn from this experience?
Blog Post
April 14, 2020
The coronavirus is spreading and for the first time in history virtually all people on earth are faced with the same, imminent common threat. With multifold stories of individual suffering and an unprecedented global lockdown, there is an intensifying call for an internationally coordinated response...