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Aug 16, 2024 | 
ghheadlines.com | Vera Songwe |Ishac Diwan
BusinessHome » Business and Financial Times »Fri 16th Aug, 2024 »Curbing debt-fueled unrest in emerging marketsBy Vera SONGWE & Ishac DIWAN The recent protests in Kenya reflect the frustrated aspirations of young people for higher-quality social services and better economic opportunities. It also highlights the difficulty – in Kenya, and across the developing world – of achieving macroeconomic stability at a time of considerable global uncertainty.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
bostonreview.net | Ishac Diwan |Bright Simons
Táíwò asks whether nation-states can be corralled to create a green global economy—a starting point, he argues, for anything else that might improve the lives of the world’s poor. As an economist and a social innovator, we see the prospect from both practice and theory, but it is important to situate the matter historically.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
hillheat.news | Ishac Diwan |Dani Rodrik
PRESENTED BY GREENHOUSE BLANKETS “Legal doctrine needs to adapt to meet the climate moment.” So argues long-time U.S. Navy officer Mark Nevitt, now a law professor at Emory, in Stanford Law Review. Nevitt takes a detailed look at the fraught consequences for coastal communities from sea level rise, with broader application to all kinds of climate disasters.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ishac Diwan |Dani Rodrik
The rich world bears responsibility for much of the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. The average person living in a high-income country today emits twice as much CO2 as someone resident in a middle-income country, and at least 30 times more than a person living in a low-income country. On current estimates, however, developing countries (excluding China) could account for more than 50 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
ghheadlines.com | Ishac Diwan |Vera Songwe
BusinessHome » Business and Financial Times »Thu 18th Apr, 2024 »Developing countries’ liquidity crisis is not overBy Ishac DIWAN & Vera SONGWEFor the first time in two years, some low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) can access the bond market. But many others remain still in dire need of liquidity and face punishing interest rates.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
koreatimes.co.kr | Ishac Diwan |Vera Songwe
By Ishac Diwan and Vera SongwePARIS/BASEL – For the first time in two years, some low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) can access the bond market. But many others remain still in dire need of liquidity and face punishing interest rates.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
ugbusiness.com | Ishac Diwan |Vera Songwe
For the first time in two years, some low-income and lower-middle-income countries can access the bond market. But many others remain still in dire need of liquidity and face punishing interest rates. Amid this ongoing crisis, the Finance for Development Lab’s proposal for a “liquidity bridge” that would enable developing economies to extend the maturity of their debts by 5-10 years and allocate resources toward climate mitigation and adaptation remains as necessary as ever.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
project-syndicate.org | Ishac Diwan
PARIS/BASEL – For the first time in two years, some low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) can access the bond market. But many others remain still in dire need of liquidity and face punishing interest rates. Amid this ongoing crisis, the Finance for Development Lab’s proposal for a “liquidity bridge” that would enable developing economies to extend the maturity of their debts by 5-10 years and allocate resources toward climate mitigation and adaptation remains as necessary as ever.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Ishac Diwan
Aa Aa Aa - A + PARIS/BASEL – For the first time in two years, some low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) can access the bond market. But many others remain still in dire need of liquidity and face punishing interest rates. Amid this ongoing crisis, the Finance for Development Lab’s proposal for a “liquidity........ © Project Syndicate visit website
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
ethiopianbusinessreview.net | Vera Songwe |Ishac Diwan
While developed economies have pledged to increase climate financing sharply by 2030, developing-economy policymakers are struggling to cover the costs of action. With medium-term strategies being used to address a short-term threat, progress on the green transition will be undermined, with potentially catastrophic implications. If developing economies found it hard to manage their debts in 2023, they are likely to face even more formidable challenges this year.
