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Policy Briefs

22 January 2025
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[POLICY BRIEF] THE IMF’S EXCEPTIONAL ACCESS POLICY: IT’S NOT WORKING

This note is a joint publication between the Finance for Development Lab and the Chair in Sovereign Debt and Finance […]
2 December 2022

[POLICY BRIEF] THE SDR AS A DEVELOPMENT TOOL

The COP27 has seen renewed calls for the use of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to meet increasing climate- and […]
28 November 2022

[POLICY BRIEF] FINANCE, CLIMATE, AND THE WORLD BANK

At the recent COP 27 in Sharm El Sheikh, climate negotiations have mainly focused on the “finance” dimension. From the […]
21 September 2022

[POLICY BRIEF] ODIOUS DEBT OR ESG: CURTAILING THE ACCESS TO DEBT MARKETS FOR DESPOTS

Current geopolitical tensions are spilling over to sovereign debt markets. They raise questions related to technical defaults, willingness versus ability […]
16 September 2022

[POLICY BRIEF] DEBT AND SANCTIONS

Following the invasion of Ukraine, financial sanctions were taken against Russia. For the first time in modern times, those sanctions […]
14 April 2022

[POLICY BRIEF] THE FINANCING OF EMERGING ECONOMIES IN 2022 – 2023

Emerging economies will be confronted in 2022 to a very demanding global environment and numerous policy challenges. For them, like […]