By Udaibir Das
How should China refine its financial reform strategy to better align with its economic ambitions and responsibilities?
Revolutionising and rebalancing China’s financial sector
Third Plenum: China’s unending pursuit of stability
By Udaibir Das
The decisions from the 20th National Congress and the Third Plenum collectively represent significant strides in reinforcing the financial sector’s role as China recalibrates its growth model.
The UK’s National Wealth Fund: A Guiding Beacon or a Lost Mirage? Strengthening Governance to Empower the UK’s Future
By Udaibir Das
The UK is poised to make a significant impact with the National Wealth Fund (NWF), a fund designed to spearhead its green transition and support sustainable growth. Will the UK’s NWF be a guiding economic beacon or just a political mirage?
The Power of the Private Sector: Boosting Climate Resilience
By Udaibir Das
The IMF’s RST is a significant step forward in mobilising climate finance, focused on leveraging private sector involvement. By learning from the RST’s successes and challenges, other international efforts can enhance their strategies to attract private capital, creating a more sustainable and resilient global economy.
Invisible puppeteer: a call for debt management reform
By Udaibir Das
To effectively manage debt and all liabilities, a top-down, country-wide reform is necessary to move towards a comprehensive liability management function.
Basel Committee at 50: From crisis to confidence
By Udaibir Das and Wayne Byres
After 50 years, the Basel Committee’s standards are crucial for maintaining global financial stability.
Buckle Up for the Ride: Sovereign Wealth Funds Grapple with Fragmentation and Conflict
By Udaibir Das
The current global economic and capital market conditions necessitate reassessing conventional portfolio construction and risk management practices.
Spring meetings prompted to shed light on MDB reform
By Udaibir Das
Multilateral reform remains complex and demands patience to ensure that the process is transparent and inclusive.
Anit Mukherjee's Interview in Mondato
Unleashing Africa’s investment potential
By Udaibir Das
Africa stands on the precipice of a financial renaissance, poised to redefine its influence in the global investment sphere.
Africa’s bold bargain with global finance
By Udaibir Das
As a unified bloc, Africa can negotiate better terms in international trade agreements, investment deals and financial arrangements.
LiFE Lessons: Rethinking Policies for Lifestyles for Sustainable Development
Outlook 2024: The year financial systems break or make it
By Udaibir Das
Today’s financial sector is complex and plagued by structural flaws and unfinished reforms.
The key to a sovereign’s resilience
By Udaibir Das
Balance sheet risks have become more challenging and critical for resource-rich, low-income countries, especially in Africa.
The time for Africa’s financial transformation is now
By Udaibir Das
While the digitalisation of finance advances and the potential introduction of central bank digital currency might aid finance in Africa, it is not enough.
Delivering Digital G2P Payments to Urban Informal Populations
By Anit Mukherjee, Ubah Thomas Ubah, Brian Webster, Wendy Cunningham, and Georgina Marin
Using data from three countries, this paper finds that digital government-to-person (G2P) payments were effective in reaching urban informal sector beneficiaries quickly and safely during the COVID-19 crisis.
Digital Development: Emulating India's Digital Public Infrastructure to Reach the Sustainable Development Goals
Bank of England exercises aim to better understand market dynamics
By Udaibir Das
The past 50 years have seen shifts in the global financial system’s behaviour. Major market crises, such as the 1997 Asian crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, have resulted in more robust financial policies focused on licensed entities.
Cash Transfers in the Context of Energy Subsidy Reform: Insights from Recent Experience
By Anit Mukherjee, Yuko Okamura, Ugo Gentilini, Defne Gencer, Mohamed Almenfi, Adea Kryeziu, Miriam Montenegro, and Nithin Umapathi
Over the past several decades, as part of the evolving understanding of energy subsidy reforms, there has been growing recognition of the potential of targeted cash transfers to support the poor and vulnerable to help governments achieve desired policy outcomes at lower fiscal cost and in a sustainable manner.
