Finance

World Bank Readies $160 Billion Emergency Aid Package

World Bank President David Malpass has joined IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in urging bilateral creditors to extend debt relief…

5 years ago

Deflation, Inflation, and the Disappearance of Deficit Phobia

Inflation is, essentially, the expression of excess demand or, on its flip side, a sign of depressed supply. The trillions…

5 years ago

2020 UNCTAD World Investment Forum: More Important Than Ever in an Age of Worrying Trends

In December this year, Abu Dhabi will welcome government leaders, CEOs and investment stakeholders for the seventh biennial UNCTAD World…

5 years ago

Harvard Business School on Impact-Weighted Accounts: the Missing Piece in Economy Puzzle

Capitalism is in need of a renaissance. Despite headlines of strong global economic growth, there are signs that all is…

5 years ago

Business in Times of Corona: The Dangerous Fruit of the Magic Money Tree

In one of life’s little ironies, it was not the senator from Vermont but the billionaire businessman from New York…

5 years ago

Evan Harvey, Nasdaq: SDG Awareness and Action – A Report From the Global Exchange Community

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems by the year 2030, but progress…

5 years ago

Jim O’Neill: A Living Wage for Capitalism

At 3.6%, unemployment in the United States remains near its lowest level since the late 1960s. There are even signs…

5 years ago

Klaus Schwab: What Kind of Capitalism Do We Want?

What kind of capitalism do we want? That may be the defining question of our era. If we want to…

5 years ago

Mohamed A El-Erian: How the IMF Can Battle Gradual Irrelevance

This year, I didn’t attend the October annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington,…

5 years ago

Jim O’Neill: The Return of Fiscal Policy

As we enter the last quarter of 2019 (and of the decade), cyclical indicators point to a slowing world economy…

5 years ago