A Silent Wave of Financial Stress Threatens Crisis in Emerging Markets
Avinash Persaud | 5 September 2022
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Debt,
Financial Markets A silent wave of financial stress is running through world markets and will soon crash onshore. The yield on long-term sovereign debt is a measure of pressure. It is no surprise that you can’t easily find prices for Sri Lankan, Ukrainian, El Salvadoran, Venezuelan and
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Finance, Growth and Inequality
Boris Cournède and
Oliver Denk | 31 March 2016
Fiscal,
Monetary,
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Financial Markets,
Inequality Finance is the lifeblood of modern economies, but too much of the wrong type of finance can hamper economic prosperity and social cohesion. We have taken a holistic approach to study the consequences of finance for the inclusiveness of growth, in the spirit of the
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“What’s it for?” – Moral responsibility in an age of globalization
Jean-Pierre Lehmann | 2 December 2012
Trade,
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Financial Markets,
G20,
WTO Several years ago, I was approached by an Indian student following a lecture I had given on globalization and the interdependence of markets through cross-border flows of goods, services, ideas, knowledge, science and people. His question was: “But what’s it for?” In the late 20th/early
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Why a financial transaction tax is good for your pension
Avinash Persaud | 23 October 2012
Fiscal,
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Financial Markets,
Financial Transaction Tax Before the end of 2012, it is likely that 9 EU Member countries will invoke the “Enhanced Co-operation Procedure” and move ahead with a Financial Transactions Tax (FTT), that, if it had broad coverage of financial instruments and players would raise over USD$30bn, providing a
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