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Kevin Gallagher: China must calibrate overseas lending towards Paris climate goals With the demise of US leadership on climate change, China enters this week’s Conference of the Parties to the Paris climate agreement poised to take the mantle as the world’s leader on energy and climate change.	Thu, Dec 13, 2018	Financial Times
Dambisa Moyo: The African Threat Although international engagement with Africa has evolved over time, it has never succeeded in putting the region on a path toward long-term and sustainable growth and development. Today, continued failure could expose the world to a new age of pandemics, terror, and mass migration	Fri, Nov 23, 2018	Project Syndicate
Scott Morris: What happens when development cooperation becomes development competition Development cooperation has been a common thread running through the geography of aid agreements of recent years: from the Busan Partnership to the Paris Declaration and on to the Accra Agenda. If there is one thing that major donor countries have agreed on, it’s the need to cooperate, with developing country “partners” and with each other when it comes to the delivery of development assistance.	Fri, Nov 16, 2018	Brookings
Dee Smith: Modern Manipulation: Behavioral Economics in a Technological World Raoul Pal sits down with Dee Smith of Strategic Insight Group to cover a host of problems facing the world today. In particular, they tackle the issue of technology companies and state actors using behavioral economics to shape the world to their advantage.	Thu, Sep 13, 2018	Real Vision
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	Bretton Woods Committee
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	Bretton Woods Committee
Douglas A. Rediker: Why US multilateral leadership was key to the global financial crisis response Ten years after the onset of the global financial crisis, one of its most under-appreciated legacies is the strong U.S. embrace of multilateralism to address growing financial interlinkages around the world.	Wed, Sep 12, 2018	Brookings
Nouriel Roubini and Brunello Rosa: Is the next financial crisis already brewing? As we mark the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis, there have been plenty of postmortems examining its causes, its consequences and whether the necessary lessons have been learnt.	Tue, Sep 11, 2018	Financial Times
Scott Morris: Mapping the Multilateral Concessional Finance Landscape On September 19, the Center for Global Development will convene representatives from the leading multilateral development funds, their donors and recipients, and independent experts to discuss the next round of negotiations that will determine how much money these funds will have available in the years ahead and how they will spend it.	Mon, Sep 10, 2018	Center for Global Development
Susan Lund: What's changed since the 2008 financial crisis in four charts This month will mark the 10-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse. In many ways, the global financial system is better off as a result of the extraordinary stabilization measures taken after 2008. But some familiar risks are creeping back, and new ones have emerged.	Mon, Sep 10, 2018	LinkedIn