Member Views | The Bretton Woods Committee

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James Manyika and Susan Lund: Digital Protectionism and Barriers to International Data Flows In just 25 years, the internet has become an intricate web connecting billions of users worldwide and a conduit for trillions of dollars in commerce. Just as it is transforming industries and national economies, it is also transforming the nature of globalization.	Mon, Jun 25, 2018	Project Syndicate
Gail D. Fosler: Addressing Global Agreements in Digital Trade The failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and indefinite suspension of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) marked the death knell of large complex multilateral trade and investment agreements.	Tue, Jun 26, 2018	Project Syndicate
Lutfey Siddiqi: Asian Emerging Markets in the era of Infinity War It was just a year ago that Argentina issued a 100-year bond which offered a dollar coupon of less than eight percent for which, there was three times as much demand as supply. Shortly afterwards, major investment banks issued their outlook for 2018.	Mon, Oct 1, 2018	Project Syndicate
Marsha J. Vande Berg: Asia’s emerging markets hold the keys to sustainable investment Japan’s newly re-elected prime minister, Shinzo Abe did not mince words in a recent article that led the Financial Times opinion page: Environmental risks are exacerbating. More robust action is needed. “And swiftly.”	Mon, Oct 1, 2018	Project Syndicate
James M. Boughton: Can We Expect a “New Bretton Woods”? As the world economy and its governance structure continue to evolve at an accelerating rate, calls for reform of multilateral institutions are growing louder.	Tue, Feb 5, 2019	Project Syndicate
Warren Coats: Proposal for an IMF Staff Executive Board Paper on Promoting Market SDRs Few initiatives would be more in keeping with the spirit and goals of the Bretton Woods Committee than the development of wide spread use of a truly international currency—the IMF’s SDR.	Tue, Feb 19, 2019	Project Syndicate
William Jannace: Bretton Woods 4.0 Finding New Relevance in a New World Order Institutions are products of their time, and essentially all have sell-by dates. They typically arise to meet a given challenge, and if proven durable become embedded in the fabric of their environment—at least, up to a point.	Tue, Feb 19, 2019	Project Syndicate
Barbara Matthews: The Next 75 Years – Coping with Decentralization and Geopolitical Rebalancing The Bretton Woods 75th anniversary coincides with accelerating angst regarding rising populism and growing backlash against multilateralism.	Tue, Mar 5, 2019	Project Syndicate
Gary Kleiman: Bretton Woods and Emerging Markets Investment: Toward A New Golden Age Both the Committee and emerging market investment field have been in existence for roughly half the period of the 75-year history of the Bretton Woods institutions.	Thu, Mar 14, 2019	Project Syndicate
Joerg Bibow: Ongoing Erosion of the Global Economic Order Will Sow More Conflict and Yield No Winners The successful crafting of the Bretton Woods global economic architecture at the end of WWII followed decades of monumental destruction, bloodshed, and misery.	Mon, Apr 1, 2019	Project Syndicate