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Sustainability
IMF

European discomfort

The IMF’s role in the euro crisis is awkward

HIPC Initiative

Back to square one

Countries that have been granted debt relief risk renewed insolvency

Climate change

Loss and damage gets a boost

Experts call for a global market price for carbon emissions

World economy

Cooperation beats confrontation

In times of financial distress, countries are likely to ask for support from both established and new IFIs

Myanmar

“Suu Kyi must extend power”

Expectations run high as Myanmar’s first freely elected parliament convenes

Ugandan election blues

Ugandan election blues

Finances

Loans for living and luxury

Zambia’s middle class is weighed down by debts

Relevant reading

Debate on industrial policy

Relevant reading: World Bank economists disagree about interventionist industrial policy

EU too soft on Burundi

ODA should depend on good governance

Poverty

Major breakthrough

What last year’s update of the World Bank’s poverty line means

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