Highlights

Special Drawing Rights: A Primer

Last week the IMF Board of Governors approved a $650 billion SDR allocation. Read our SDR Primer to learn more.

Sovereign Debt: A Critical Challenge

This introductory paper is the first in a series in which BWC’s Sovereign Debt Working Group will present specific, actionable recommendations to improve the global debt resolution architecture.

Share Your Perspective on the BWC Blog: The Multi-Faceted Impacts of the Crisis in Ukraine

Share Your Perspective on the BWC Blog: The International Reach of the SVB failure

The BWC Blog aims to help global leaders envision how to evolve and strengthen the multilateral financial system and encourage policymakers to strengthen international economic cooperation. Calls for submissions vary dependent upon timely global events, but submissions are encouraged on any relevant topic on an ongoing basis. 

Topic: The International Reach of the SVB failure

Share Your Perspective on the BWC Blog: The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and US-China Relations

Share Your Perspective on the BWC Blog: The Imperative of Adaptation for the IFIs

The Bretton Woods Committee Blog aims to help global leaders envision how to evolve and strengthen the multilateral financial system and encourage policymakers to recommit to the value of international economic cooperation. Calls for submissions vary dependent upon timely global events, but submissions are encouraged on any relevant topic on an ongoing basis.

Share Your Perspective on the BWC Blog: The Future of the WTO

Topic: The Future of the WTO
The long-awaited MC12 conference convened global trade experts to discuss the four main “pillars” of negotiation facing the international trade sphere: fisheries subsidies, agriculture, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic (including the waiver to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of International Property Rights, or TRIPS waiver) and WTO reform, and development & Least Developed Country (LDC) issues. 

Share Your Perspective on the BWC Blog: Lessons Learned in the Aftermath of the FTX Collapse

The Committee invites all members to share their perspective on how the IFIs can lead the way in creating a global system for accountability and protection while promoting growth in the digital finance space, via the BWC Blog. 

The BWC Blog aims to help global leaders envision how to evolve and strengthen the multilateral financial system and encourage policymakers to strengthen international economic cooperation. Calls for submissions vary dependent upon timely global events, but submissions are encouraged on any relevant topic on an ongoing basis.  

Share Your Perspective on the BWC Blog: How Can the Biden Administration Deepen Commitment to the IFIs?

The Committee invites all members to share their perspective on IFI priorities for the incoming U.S. Administration via the BWC Blog. Submissions will be accepted and published on a rolling basis.

September FOMC and US Monetary Policy Developments Summary

Bill Dudley, Chair of the Bretton Woods Committee and former president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York and vice chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee from 2009-18, joins Mark Sobel, US chairman of OMFIF, to discuss the September FOMC meeting.