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  FAQs: What Can be Expected from the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development?

  By Tim Hirschel-Burns The highly anticipated Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) will take place from June 30 Read more

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  The Cost of Inaction: Explaining Africa’s Debt Distress in 10 Charts — and Five Fixes for the G20

  By Marina Zucker-Marques The African continent holds immense potential for sustainable development. It is rich in renewable energy resources—home to Read more

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  Development Finance and Critical Minerals: Opportunities for Supporting Sustainability and Inclusion through Patient Capital

  Robust environmental and social risk management (ESRM) frameworks are posited as tools that can, if effectively implemented, contribute to more Read more

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  Excess US Deaths Before, During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Mortality rates decreased more slowly in the US than in other high-income countries (HICs) between 1980 and 2019, resulting in growing Read more

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  How Mexico Can Design a USMCA Where Development Matters

  By Tim Hirschel-Burns and Rachel Thrasher It is a fraught moment for North American trade policy. Over the last few Read more

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  Norms and Troubled Sovereign International Debt

  Troubled sovereign international debt is a global governance challenge, requiring solutions balancing the interests of the global economy, creditors, and Read more

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  The Role of Ideas in Economic Policy: The Global Sovereign Debt Regime

  By Leslie Elliott Armijo and Prateek Sood Ideas matter for choices about economic policy. Unexamined assumptions may bound the scope Read more

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  Debt Sustainability Analysis as if Development Really Mattered

  To achieve the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate inaction, emerging market Read more