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El próximo jueves hay charla informativa de la Maestría en Desarrollo Económico de Escuela IDAES | UNSAM. Hay becas de arancel disponibles. Acá, la información para la charla, y para inscribirse a la Maestría. Por cualquier duda, consulten. Se agradece RT.

#News Lens: IMF has finally lifted the veil on its surcharge policy, showing that 22+ countries are paying a total of 💵$2B per year. CEPR's Michael Galant & Ivana Vasic Lalovic dive into the data and explain why it's time to #StopIMFSurcharges cepr.net/international-…

A striking and very welcome mea culpa from Nobel prize-winning economist Angus Deaton - in the IMF of all places - on how economics lost its way by ignoring corporate power, downplaying ethics, stigmatising unions and fetishising efficiency. imf.org/en/Publication…

How can a combination of credit enhancements, multilateral development bank reforms + debt relief help provide critical space for meeting global climate financing needs? Becky Ray + Uli Volz discuss in a new op-ed for Project Syndicate. Read more: gdpcenter.org/3U3rnvo

NEW: As spring meetings approach, Ivana Vasic Lalovic Francisco Amsler and I have published a new estimate of the IMF's punitive surcharge fees. 22 countries are now impacted — 🇦🇷🇺🇦🇵🇰🇪🇬🇪🇨🇱🇰🇰🇪🇯🇴🇨🇮🇦🇴🇨🇷🇸🇳🇲🇩🇧🇧🇲🇰🇦🇲🇬🇪🇬🇦🇸🇨🇲🇳🇹🇳 — paying $2 billion per year. #StopIMFSurcharges cepr.net/report/a-broad…

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This week in Washington DC, #C3A will co-host 3 events with the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, The Brookings Institution, Finance for Development Lab, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Spanish Embassy. 👉More info to join us in Washington or online: bit.ly/3xIIjym

Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of fair & open markets, devlopment for all etc. but in practice the way financial markets are organized & regulated leads to an enormous income transfer from global South to global North, year after year & growing over time

Back from the IMF/World Bank Spring meetings, where — six weeks after the beginning of the work at the G20 on a coordinated taxation of the super-rich — there was palpable "tax the rich" energy in the room A few notable developments 🧵

so rich countries are championing IFI reform to rely more on private for climate and development, while private says actually there’s no profit in RE we’re not interested

If you live in my corner of the Twitter-sphere, you might see a lot of posts about #SDRs today. Or maybe you're not a nerd who reads about SDRs but think money for health, education, + climate action is good. Either way, here's a 🧵on what SDRs are and why they're so important

The special session 2 at the demand-led growth workshop in Rio was a tribute to Maria da Conceição Tavares. It was made by her friends and followers, Ricardo Bielschowsky, Carlos Medeiros and Franklin Serrano. Check the video here: youtube.com/watch?v=2j7MCc…

NEW: Our paper by Andrés Arauz @ivana_v_l Francisco Amsler urges IMF to use its power to address global debt challenges. Removing surcharges is a crucial first step. The IMF must adapt its policies to meet current global needs. #StopIMFSurcharges i.mtr.cool/rurhrtzrnh

50+ known scholars & activists against Big Techs attach on #DigitalSovereignty The list includes Mariana Mazzucato Thomas Piketty Daron Acemoglu Shoshana Zuboff Yanis Varoufakis Evgeny Morozov (evgenymorozov.bsky.social) Gabriel Zucman Jayati Ghosh Jason Hickel #Support_Brazil Read and sign: tinyurl.com/yar7ab6r

El FMI redujo la tasa de interés que cobra sobre sus préstamos. Implica un alivio para Argentina de casi USD 450 millones por año. ES MÁS QUE LA MITAD DE LO QUE CUESTA LA LEY DE FINANCIAMIENTO UNIVERSITARIO QUE VETÓ EL GOBIERNO DE MILEI. Aquí hay un financiamiento para el que

More needs to be done, but this is a step in the right direction. Thanks to all those who pushed for this agenda, including of course the amazing work of the CEPR team in discussing the IMF surcharge policy, which I have been honored to contribute to over the past two years.

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El dólar financiero sigue cayendo, el riesgo país también, el Banco Central no para de acumular reservas en un mes donde históricamente suele tener que vender...¿Qué explica todo esto? En este hilo vamos a hablar del famoso "carry trade" 👇

🚨🚨 Report Release! 🚨🚨 📚The Expert Review on Debt, Nature & Climate Report is now available: ☘️ 💰"Healthy Debt on a Healthy Planet" Finance for Development Lab was proud to participate in the Review's Secretariat alongside ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) and ECLAC