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Huw van Steenis

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Huw van Steenis, a former senior adviser to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, is Chair of Sustainable Finance at UBS and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Financial and Monetary Systems.

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  1. The Financial Climate Has Reached a Tipping Point
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    The Financial Climate Has Reached a Tipping Point

    Sep 23, 2020 Huw van Steenis sees disclosure standards and other financial-industry trends moving in a “greener” direction.

  2. The New Digital-Payments Race
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    The New Digital-Payments Race

    Apr 21, 2020 Huw van Steenis urges central banks to respond to the rise of new payment technologies with extreme caution.

  3. The Digital Money Revolution
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    The Digital Money Revolution

    Nov 13, 2019 Huw van Steenis explains how policymakers should respond to the decline of cash and an explosion in new payment methods.

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    An Insolvency Iceberg?

    Takatoshi Ito

    The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was met by an equally swift response from US regulators. But the crisis is far from over, and the nature of the authorities’ response introduces problems of its own.

     considers the risk that other banks will experience liquidity problems as interest rates continue to rise.
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    Can Governments Still Steer the Economy?

    Robert Skidelsky explains why international finance and geopolitics make it harder to influence major performance indicators.
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    Accounting for Casino Capitalism

    Hans-Werner Sinn draws parallels between recent bank collapses and the late-nineteenth-century “founders’ crash.”
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    Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?

    Simon Zadek urges rich-country governments to aid debt-distressed poor countries as urgently as they have their failing banks.
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    The Population Boon

    Beniamino Callegari & Per Espen Stoknes correct popular myths about the threat of demographic growth to sustainable development.
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    Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?

    Vera Songwe decries the unequal responses to liquidity crises in Silicon Valley compared to the developing world.
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    Beyond Industrial Policy

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elizabeth Garlow

    The emerging breed of industrial policies, which emphasize production, fair wages, and localism, could serve as the basis for post-neoliberal economies. But to tackle the challenges of the twenty-first century and ensure a sustainable future, we need a policy framework that recognizes the value of human connection.

     make the case for an economic strategy that prioritizes shared prosperity over competition.
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    The Other Conflict on Europe’s Doorstep

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that Azerbaijan may be preparing to renew its military aggression against neighboring Armenia.
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    Let the Banks Burn

    Yanis Varoufakis shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.

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