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Hintergrund
Green industrial policy

Reducing poverty whilst transitioning to a green economy

The double challenge of generating growth and transitioning to clean economies

Debt restructuring

Alternative structural adjustment

The IMF needs to reform if it wants to maintain its legitimacy

Economic policy

Interfering in national sovereignty

Shortcomings and weaknesses of the structural-adjustment measures of recent decades

Failed policies

Descent into hell

In Africa, structural adjustment did not trigger fast growth, but had a contractive impact

International financial institutions

More efficient multilateralism

IMF and Worldbank must heed lessons of past decades

Policy doctrines

Straight talk on economics

Harvard economist Dani Rodrik demands policy space for developing countries

Economic policymaking

Low-hanging fruit

In the early 1990s, India’s economic reforms triggered high growth rates for the long term

Crisis lending

Two lessons from structural adjustment

Indonesian economist looks back at IMF conditions in Asian crisis

Emergency relief

“One of the greatest tragedies of our time”

Years of civil war have left South Sudan’s citizens with hunger and displacement

Transforming transportation

Combining digitalisation and mobility

A transportation transformation is necessary and possible in Africa, but it will look different than in industrialised countries

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