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Special Drawing Rights: Can the IMF’s reserve currency become a transformative financial resource?
In August 2021, the IMF issued the largest allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) in history. This briefing takes stock...
Deciphering the Review of the IMF’s Institutional View on Capital Flows
On March 30, 2022, the International Monetary Fund published the Review of the Institutional View on the Liberalization and Management...
UN DESA World Economic Situation and Prospects 2022
The global economic recovery is facing significant headwinds amid new waves of COVID-19 infections, persistent labour market challenges, lingering supply-chain...
Why the IMF Resilience and Sustainability Trust is not a silver bullet for Covid-19 recovery and the fight against climate change
Intended by the IMF as a means to redistribute rich countries’ unused Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the current design of...
Out of the Shadows: Integrating climate change into IMF Technical Assistance
This report examines several recent IMF technical assistance reports and assesses the extent to which the assistance provided was compatible...
Missing Links: How climate change remains peripheral to IMF economic surveillance activities
This report tests whether bilateral economic surveillance effectively is playing the central role that the IMF claims, in the Fund’s...
Austerity Redux: The Post-pandemic Wave of Budget Cuts and the Future of Global Public Health
Is austerity a thing of the past? In this article, the authors review available evidence, focusing on public spending projections...
Global Income Inequality, 1820-2020
In this paper, Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty mobilize newly available historical series from the World Inequality Database to construct world income distribution...
Talking straight on SDRs: What’s needed for fair and transparent distribution
In the space of a few months, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) - supplementary reserve assets created by the International Monetary...
Global austerity alert: Looming budget cuts in 2021-25 and alternative pathways
The Global Austerity Alert is published by ITUC, Public Services International, Bretton Woods Project, Third World Network, Arab Watch Coalition...
Towards a People's Recovery: Tracking Fiscal and Social Protection Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South
The vast majority of Covid-19 recovery funds have gone to big corporations instead of toward welfare, small firms, or those...
The trillion dollar question: What difference will the IMF’s new SDRs allocation make to the world’s poorest?
The US$650 billion allocation of SDRs proposed by the IMF will not support the post-Covid economic recovery of the poorest...
The Pandemic Papers: Reviews of Covid-19's impact on debt and development finance
In this compilation of reports and briefings released throughout 2020, we review the impact of the pandemic on debt and...
Unhealthy conditions: IMF loan conditionality and its impact on health financing
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) practice of attaching policy conditions to its loans for crisis-hit countries continues to trigger outrage...