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January 16, 2023

Japan
The Disappearing Japanese Bid for Global Bonds

The rise in Japanese holdings of foreign bonds had an enormous impact on global markets between 2011 and 2020. The markets will now have to adapt to a sustained reduction in Japanese demand.

The Disappearing Japanese Bid for Global Bonds

June 1, 2023

Economics
Using an SDR Bond Creatively to Boost Concessional and Climate Finance

Combining an SDR with budget funding is the most efficient way to stretch budgeted dollars (and euros) and increased the global supply of concessional financing. 

A worker walks between solar panels at Centragrid power plant in Nyabira, Zimbabwe.

April 17, 2024

Europe
A Conversation With Christine Lagarde

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde discusses the state of the European economy, U.S.-EU economic cooperation, and the implications of international geopolitical conflicts on the global…

Play Christine Lagarde speaking with the IMF logo in the background.

September 16, 2020

United States

February 29, 2024

Immigration and Migration
Responding to Immigration Influx in the United States

Theresa Cardinal Brown, senior advisor of immigration and border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, discusses prospects for reforms to U.S. immigration policy and how state and local officials c…

Play U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents work at a processing facility in Brownsville, TX.

October 7, 2020

Emerging Economies
Reframing the Collective Action Problem in Sovereign Bond Restructuring

A recent white paper from Lazard points out that emerging market sovereign bond holdings are often fairly concentrated among a handful of big players.  The main impediment to collective action may be…

Reframing the Collective Action Problem in Sovereign Bond Restructuring