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Our view

Foundations of broad-based prosperity

How the middle class matters in a country’s development

Financial sector

Financial sector: important allies for net-zero strategies

For good reason, central banks are increasingly paying attention to climate risks

Our view

In the health sector, government action is indispensable

Unrestrained market forces do not deliver good health-care results

IMF

IMF keeps pressing for more assertive government action

IMF proposes investments worth $ 50 billion to boost Covid-19 vaccination programmes

Blog

Criticism of Netanyahu is not necessarily anti-Semitic

Nuanced assessments of Israel-Hamas conflict from the New York Times

Mass suffering

India’s disastrous second Covid-19 wave

Coronavirus is ravaging India’s cities and rural areas

Malawi

Democratic achievements, but insufficient growth

After a quite peaceful, democratic change of government, Malawi is on a good path

Our view

Negative emissions to get to net zero

Governments must rise to their responsibility

Development finance

China is offering alternatives to IMF programmes

Why it may be a good thing that Chinese lending is reducing the clout of the IMF

Afghanistan

Afghans feel left alone in view of US withdrawal

President Biden’s exit from Afghanistan is likely to be followed by escalating civil war

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