Author: Amelia Dangerfield

Quantifying the Policy Space for Regulating Capital Flows in Trade and Investment Treaties

Leading up to and in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, there has been a significant amount of literature demonstrating  how regulating cross-border financial flows helps prevent and mitigate financial crises. However, an increasing number of trade and investment treaties makes it difficult to regulate the inflow or outflow of capital to prevent and […]

Development Banks and Socio-environmental Risk: In Search of an Improved Prognosis for Sensitive Development Projects

Development projects, especially extractive, hydro or forest-clearing projects, frequently generate significant opposition from their neighbors, rendering projects infeasible. EJ Atlas, the most comprehensive compilation of such conflicts, lists 2,592 instances of socio-environmental conflicts around the world. Disputes and conflict may arise from numerous topics, such as water rights and water usage, air pollution, overburden and […]

Strengthening the International Monetary Fund for Stability and Sustainable Development

A decade after the Global Financial Crisis, the world economy continues to be on fragile footing. While global growth is gradually recovering in many parts of the world, deep vulnerabilities remain in the global monetary and financial system at a period when support for multilateral institutions is very low in some countries. During these times, […]