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June 19, 2023
When Boris Johnson announced the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in September 2020, he signaled the dissolution of the Department for International Development (DFID) after nearly 25 years. In a new series, to be published over the next 18 months, we will look at the wa...
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June 16, 2023
Just hours after I clicked send on the links last week, the curtain began to draw on one of the most chaotic eras of modern British politics, with Boris Johnson’s huffing and whining resignation as an MP. After discovering that we was about to be censured for lying to Parliament (a serious brea...
Blog Post
June 16, 2023
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) needs more subsidy resources to continue its concessional lending to low-income countries (LICs) at current levels. Following the example set by the United Kingdom, lenders to the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) can build subsidy resources into t...
Blog Post
June 09, 2023
Apparently, New York had the worst air quality in the world yesterday, which made me think of my childhood in Hong Kong, when there were days you had to chew before inhaling. As Alex Tabarrok points out, air pollution is really bad—for health, productivity and cognitive development, but it’s also tr...
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June 02, 2023
Current resources for the IMF's PRGT are not sufficient to support continued high demand. The problem is the lack of subsidy resources, which has worsened markedly in the current environment. Donors will have to step up or PRGT lending will be curtailed. If donors don’t step up with new commitments ...
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June 02, 2023
It’s the NBA Finals, a magical time of year when being woken up at 3am by an unhappy toddler can lead to 3 hours of ‘just five more minutes’ of a basketball game on an iPhone (thank you, League Pass). If I appear bleary-eyed in any meetings, blame the Nuggets. In years past, you could reliably boil ...