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The authors provide a step-by-step guide to the main overarching structural changes that are needed to better address climate change and enable a more economically-just and financially-stable world. Review by …
How to fix the global economy – in 142 pages Read More
Rick Rowden offers a trio of measures to overhaul a creaking global financial system Thanks to the historically ambitious scale of their fiscal and monetary policies, most of the rich …
Three steps out of a fix Read More
Professor Jane D’Arista’s broad and deep expertise spans monetary policy and regulation. Rick Rowden asked her some large-scale questions about the global economy for The Mint. The Mint: What are your …
The biggest issue Read More
Foreign investment: Rick Rowden recounts the tale of who’s wagging the dog. When Mexico adopted a tax on high-fructose corn syrup as part of an effort to address the …
Sovereign states on a leash Read More
The growing push for using securitisation markets for development finance is fraught with multiple dangers ahead. Rick Rowden sounds a warning. The international development finance club has been increasingly experimenting with various types …
A sense of insecurity Read More
The rolling Back of Dodd-Frank and other tales of twists by Rick Rowden. In May 2018, the US watered down some of the major financial sector regulations it had adopted …
A triumph of finance over democracy Read More
Rick Rowden lays out how Trump, Wall Street and the Republicans are committed to dismantling financial regulation in the US. Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation passed in the wake of the 2008 global financial …
The attack on Dodd-Frank Read More
Crowded out: corporate giants are cramping developing nations’ sovereign styles. Rick Rowden looks at the impact of corporate moves to homogenise global trading and investment agreements and how developing countries …
The Case for Policy Space Read More
Africans are insisting on actual economic development which is leaving European trade negotiators exasperated. Rick Rowden explains why their stand is historic and right. In one of the most under-reported …
The most remarkable rejection of free trade you’ve never heard of Read More