
Ishac Diwan
@ishacdiwan
Teaches economics @PSEinfo @ENS_ULM | Director of Research @FinDevLab | Previously @WorldBank @Kennedy_School @ColumbiaSIPA
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https://ishacdiwan.com/ 15-10-2011 00:19:50
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🔊💵🌿The climate & debt crises must be solved together. Read the latest op-ed by Ishac Diwan & Dani Rodrik on how green investments, the provision of new financial resources & #Growth can pave the way for a #SustainableFuture👇prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economic…

In response, Ishac Diwan & Bright Simons examine the “cold calculus of climate burden sharing,” explaining why global governance can’t work—and why reinvigorated states are necessary to avoid the “dystopian” outcome of William Nordhaus’s “climate clubs”: bostonreview.net/forum_response…

🗞 Interesting Read! Great to see our Bridge Proposal mentioned as part of the solution Martin Kessler Ishac Diwan Dr. Vera Songwe #DebtCrisis #BridgeProposal #ClimateFinance Link to article Mark Suzman Foreign Affairs foreignaffairs.com/africa/debt-dr…

📢⏰Join us online TODAY for the #launch of the FDL/IPD paper: "An Updated Bridge Proposal", authored by Joseph E. Stiglitz Martín Guzmán Dr. Vera Songwe Ishac Diwan Martin Kessler. Register here👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… @policy_dialogue #SovereignDebt #economicdevelopment

Kenya's strategy for restoring its fiscal health is appropriate for a developing economy that is illiquid but not insolvent, point out Dr. Vera Songwe and Ishac Diwan. But its execution has suffered from three key weaknesses. bit.ly/4fJRuQD

1/ 📢To VRI or not to VRI? That is the question New Finance for Development Lab policy note Geneva Graduate Institute Centre for Finance and Development Martin Kessler Ishac Diwan Dani Rodrik Theo Maret Diego Rivetti Robin Wigglesworth Anna Gelpern Layna Mosley 🧵


Excellent, sobering discussion on Lebanon delving into the nuances of security, economics and politics at @RomeMEDialogues with Ishac Diwan Emile Hokayem (@emile-hokayem.bsky.social) Paul Salem Maha Yahya giving important insights on challenges to Lebanon’s sovereignty & possible paths out of the crisis.


📣 📊 The latest World Bank International Debt Statistics 2024 reveal a worsening crisis for developing countries. With rising global interest rates & capital outflows, financial fragility is at an all-time high. Read our Note by Ishac Diwan Martin Kessler Brendan Harnoys-Vannier 👇




📹The full recording of last week's discussion on "Inequality, Globalization and Democracy" with Branko Milanovic and Ishac Diwan is now available on our Youtube Channel! This event was held in collaboration with Faculty of Arts and Sciences at AUB's Department of Economics, and the Institute of Financial


Ishac Diwan 📈 Focusing on the 2019 debt situation, Marin Ferry and Ishac Diwan uncovered significant differences in how countries managed their borrowing after the 2000s debt reduction schemes. 💡 Not all nations that borrowed extensively fell into crisis.


Ishac Diwan 🖇️ Explore in more detail here 👇 findevlab.org/why-are-develo…



Ishac Diwan Jules Devie 📚 Working Paper: "What's the Value of a World Bank Policy Based Guarantee (PBG)?"👇 findevlab.org/whats-the-valu… #WorldBank #CôteDIvoire #DebtManagement

📜Read our latest Working Paper on: "Lessons from the 2019 Social Movements of the MENA Region" by @aub_lebanon Economics Professor and IFI Associate Fellow Ishac Diwan and the research fellow at the Middle East Institute and Arab Reform Initiative / مبادرة الإصلاح العربي Amel Boubekeur. The paper explores the 2019
