Global Financial Stability Tested by Higher Inflation and Interest Rates
Financial stability never comes easy, but the past few months have been especially challenging with persistently high inflation and two bank failures in the United States that exposed vulnerabilities ...
11 Apr 202317min
UN Refugee Chief Filippo Grandi on Where Economics Fits In
Financial stability is not only about managing inflation, employment rates and spending, it's about understanding how those factors affect people in different places and in all kinds of circumstances....
6 Apr 202316min
Abebe Aemro Selassie and Ken Opalo on Making Reforms Stick in Africa
As global economic uncertainty surges, Sub-Saharan Africa faces a host of challenges that will require effective policy responses if it is to regain the ground it lost during the pandemic. But what do...
30 Mars 202339min
Laura Valderrama: European Housing Markets at a Turning Point
The last few months have witnessed tensions in Europe's housing markets as the cost-of-living crisis has eroded real incomes and the surge in interest rates has made borrowers more vulnerable to finan...
24 Mars 202314min
Johannes Wiegand on Bimetallism and Monetary Stability
While the currency values of today's economic powerhouses help maintain global financial stability, the currency systems in the 19th century were tied to precious metals and France played the stabiliz...
1 Mars 202318min
Harold James: In Defense of Globalization
The longtime critics of globalization are having another moment, claiming supply chain shortages, high inflation, and increasing migration are products of an overly globalized world. But history sugge...
23 Feb 202316min
Alan S. Blinder on Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Rowing with Both Oars
Alan S. Blinder, former Fed vice chair and one of the world's most influential economists has had a front-row seat to the changes in central banking over the past several decades. Blinder is also a fo...
16 Feb 202332min
China: Reopening, Rebound, and Challenges
China's severe covid lockdowns since the start of the pandemic undoubtedly contributed to an economic downturn last year not seen in decades. And while China has lifted the containment measures and is...
3 Feb 202321min
