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DESKSIDE BRIEFING: The Centre for Disaster Protection Comments on 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
23 April, 2025 – If you are reporting on the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), taking place from April 21 to 26, in Washington, D.C, please consider the following comment from Daniel Clarke, Executive Director, the Centre for Disaster Protection.
“As global leaders gather in Washington, D.C. for the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and IMF, they are being urged to confront a hard truth: without tackling...
IMF must review role of capital flows and international trade treaties
IMF must review role of capital flows and international trade treaties
Wednesday 23 February 2022 – Vol.13 Ed.8.3
Commentary: IMF must regain lost territory
By Kevin Gallagher and Rachel Thrasher
Often depicted as a rigid institution averse to change, the International Monetary Fund deserves credit for embracing climate concerns, showing signs of abandoning austerity and calling out the G20 for its weak debt relief efforts during the pandemic. However, the most profound change came in 2012 when the...
US should speak up on key issues at next week’s G20 meeting
US should speak up on key issues at next week’s G20 meeting
Friday 11 February 2022 – Vol.13 Ed.6.5
Commentary: US must strengthen IMF at February G20 meeting
By Meg Lundsager and Mark Sobel
G20 finance ministers and central bank governors gather on 17-18 February. Amid high-profile topics including inflation, key issues beneath the surface could challenge the International Monetary Fund’s global leadership role. Three such issues are Argentina’s relationship with the IMF, low-income country debt...
Covid-19 and climate crisis reshaping European fiscal landscape
Covid-19 and climate crisis reshaping European fiscal landscape
Monday 13 December 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.50.1
Commentary: Are the EU’s fiscal rules fit for purpose?
By Taylor Pearce in London
In response to the pandemic, the EU took extraordinary measures to prevent economic collapse. Though interventions were justified, they exacerbated vulnerabilities. The EU has been left more exposed, with a de facto fiscal union which is incomplete and more susceptible to future shocks. This was one of the key...
ECB should keep eyes on inflation prize, End of Libor could trigger supply chain shock, and more
ECB should keep eyes on inflation prize, End of Libor could trigger supply chain shock, and more
THE WEEKEND REVIEW Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around the world
29 November-3 December 2021, Vol.12 Ed.48
Most-Read Commentary
ECB should keep eyes on inflation prize: Should central banks tighten early to combat inflation at the risk of triggering a serious slowdown, or risk higher inflation while propelling growth? This trade-off is easy to face for the European Central Bank. Excluding...
Argentina, China and debt restructuring threaten IMF reputation
Argentina, China and debt restructuring threaten IMF reputation
Thursday 18 November 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.46.4
Commentary: IMF faces defining challenges
By Mark Sobel in Washington
The International Monetary Fund saturates the airwaves with flashy work on climate and re-channelling special drawing rights. But defining challenges for its future and reputation will soon descend upon it. They have to do with how the Fund manages implementation of the common framework on unsustainable low-income country...
Can Lagarde normalise monetary policy within the next two years?
Can Lagarde normalise monetary policy within the next two years?
Wednesday 3 November 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.44.3
Commentary: ECB should follow Fed’s transparency example
By Tim Bartz in Frankfurt
Twenty months into Covid-19, the European Central Bank is deliberating the end of the pandemic emergency purchase programme. David Marsh, chairman, OMFIF, spoke to Der Spiegel about how President Christine Lagarde has steered the central bank through this crisis, how she has calmed dissonance among factions of...
Everybody loses in debate over Georgieva’s tenure, Inflation might break Brexit’s political magic, and more
Everybody loses in debate over Georgieva’s tenure, Inflation might break Brexit’s political magic, and more
THE WEEKEND REVIEW Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around the world
11-15 October 2021, Vol.12 Ed.41
Most-Read Commentary
Everybody loses in debate over Georgieva’s tenure: IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will continue in her role following allegations of data manipulation while at the World Bank. But this will tarnish more than Georgieva’s reputation. It has long been...
Investors must be more critical of ESG funds, Georgieva to keep IMF role
Investors must be more critical of ESG funds, Georgieva to keep IMF role
Wednesday 13 October 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.41.3
Commentary: Over half of ‘low-carbon’ ESG funds are exaggerating claims
By John Plender in London
Investors around the world have an insatiable urge to invest in environmental, social and governance-orientated funds. Yet whether these funds will deliver on the ESG promise is another matter. Fund management groups have commercial imperatives as well as fiduciary obligations. That can...