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Blog Post
August 22, 2023
In an earlier paper (and blog) published in March, we assessed the initial five programs supported by the IMF’s the Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), a new financing vehicle designed to help countries address climate change and pandemic preparedness. Among our findings, four stood out. Firs...
Blog Post
August 02, 2023
The future of such spending in countries currently experiencing or at high risk of debt distress is particularly troubling. A country is in debt distress when its ability to service domestic and external debt is impaired. This blog post delves into these issues based on more recent health spending a...
Blog Post
June 08, 2023
Climate change will make many areas less easily habitable. Periodically, a call is made to give people moving out of those areas a particular set of rights: to establish a new protection category, a 21st-century ‘climate migrant’ status to match the asylum rights formalised in 1951. This call was re...