Initiative for Policy Dialogue

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This Friday October 11, 2024, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to announce reforms to its policy on charges and especially surcharges, which levies extra fees on countries whose debts have surpassed certain size and time thresholds. We the undersigned urge the IMF to meaningfully reform its policies, especially on surcharges.

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Industrial policy is back on mainstream policy agendas in the U.S., Europe, and many developing countries. But the knowledge base to guide industrial policy remains underdeveloped.

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Alongside the October 2024 IMF meetings in Washington D.C., Joseph E. Stiglitz and Martin Guzman delivered this presentation on resolving debt crises on multiple occasions, including at events organized by the Rockefeller Foundation and the G20 Finance Track.

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Just as Donald Trump’s overall economic strategy is based on nostalgia for a bygone era, his fossil-fuel-centered energy policies would represent a quixotic attempt to reverse history.

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Financial Times shares insights on how the IMF surcharges saga could thread it's credibility. Written by Joseph Stiglitz.

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Joseph Stiglitz, professor, Columbia University, chief economist, The World Bank, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences (2001), at the Economist Impact’s Eighth Sustainability Summit for SE Europe & the Mediterranean.

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