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Rémy Rioux

Rémy Rioux

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Rémy Rioux is CEO of the Agence Française de Développement.

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  1. Public Development Banks Can Drive Sustainable Finance
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    Public Development Banks Can Drive Sustainable Finance

    Oct 12, 2021 Manish Bapna, et al. highlight the often-overlooked potential of public financing in promoting sustainable finance.

  2. A World Without AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
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    A World Without AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

    Dec 21, 2019 Rémy Rioux & Peter Sands explain why fully inclusive national health systems are essential to meeting ambitious global goals.

  3. Looking Forward to Sustainable Development
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    Looking Forward to Sustainable Development

    Oct 9, 2019 Rémy Rioux says national and regional development banks can play a crucial role in keeping the 2030 agenda on track.

  4. Reconciliation Must Drive Development
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    Reconciliation Must Drive Development

    Sep 23, 2019 Rémy Rioux proposes a new conceptual approach to collective action aimed at tackling major global challenges.

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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

    thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

    wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.

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