GEGI Policy Briefs

• Back to the Future: How the Pre-OECD Global Tax Landscape Offers Lessons for Today

  April 2025

• A Golden Opportunity: Selling a Small Share of the IMF’s Gold Reserves to Replenish the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust

  November 2024

• Room to Grow: Integrating Climate Change in Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries

  September 2024

• Towards a More Robust and Equitable Global Financial Safety Net

  September 2024

• Reforming the IMF Surcharge Rate Policy to Avoid Procyclical Lending

  September 2024

• Mobilizing Innovative Sources of Finance: Lessons from the Resilience and Sustainability Trust

  September 2024

• Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Debt and Climate Crisis: Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery

  September 2024

• Advancing Affordable Access to Climate Technologies for Clean Transition and Sustainable Industrialization in Developing Countries

  September 2024

• Negotiating in the Dark? How to Account for the Multilateral Development Banks in the New Collective Quantified Goal

  September 2024

• V20 Debt Review: An Account of Debt in the Vulnerable Group of 20 – 2nd Edition

  April 2024

• Achieving Catalytic Impact with the Resilience and Sustainability Trust

  April 2024

• Getting the Green Light: The Legal Implications of Global Trade Rules on Achieving Global Climate Goals

  February 2024

• Reigniting the Spirit of the Doha Declaration: Why a TRIPS Waiver Extension is Key to the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization

  February 2024

• Shrinking the Eurosystem’s Footprint without Offshoring the Euro

  November 2023

• Counting on the International Monetary Fund: Aligning the IMF Quota System with Global Need

  October 2023

• Safeguarding Decades of Development: The International Monetary Fund’s Role in Addressing Loss and Damage

  October 2023

• Toward a Green and Just Transition: A New Framework for Trade and Investment Rules and Climate Action

  September 2023

• Addressing Cross-Border Spillover Risks of Climate Transition Policies: the Role of the G20 and the IMF

  July 2023

• Closing the Global Crisis Finance Gap: Why and How the IMF Should Address Weaknesses in the Global Financial Safety Net

  July 2023

• Cooperating to Address Climate Change with Pricing and Non-Pricing Measures

  July 2023

• Towards a Balanced Quota Reform at the IMF

  June 2023

• Sustainable Future Bonds: Boosting MDB Lending and Improving the Global Reserve System

  June 2023

• Reviving the International Financial Transactions Tax Agenda for the G20

  June 2023

• A Framework for a Reformed WTO Appellate Body

  May 2023

• Finance and Global Economic Governance for Green Transformation

  May 2023

• The Role of the G7 in Strengthening the Global Landscape of Climate Finance for Adaptation and Loss and Damage

  April 2023

• Scaling Up Climate Adaptation Finance in Times of Growing Public Debt, Inflation and Natural Disasters

  April 2023

• World Bank Evolution as if Development and Climate Change Really Mattered: Four Foundations for Successful Reform

  March 2023

• Can the World Trade Organization Survive a Polarizing World? Three Possible Futures for the Global Trade and Investment Regime

  September 2022

• V20 Debt Review: An Account of Debt in the Vulnerable Group of Twenty

  September 2022

• The Role of the IMF in Facilitating Green Energy Transitions

  August 2022

• Supporting Energy Transitions and COVID-19 Recovery: The Role of International Financial Institutions

  August 2022

• The Energy Charter Treaty’s Protection of 1.5°C-incompatible Oil and Gas Assets

  June 2022

• Who Funds Overseas Gas Projects? Comparing Development Finance from China and Major Multilateral Development Banks

  June 2022

• No One Left Behind? COVID-19 and the Shortcomings of the Global Financial Safety Net for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  April 2022

• Addressing the Debt Crisis in the Global South: Debt Relief for Sustainable Recoveries

  April 2022

• Designing a Resilience and Sustainability Trust: A Development-Centered Approach

  February 2022

• Accelerating Climate Action through National Climate Funds

  November 2021

• Lights On: The State of International Development Finance, Coal and Green Energy

  November 2021

• Resetting the Global Financial Safety Net for the COVID-19 Recovery

  October 2021

• Understanding the Consequences of IMF Surcharges: The Need for Reform

  October 2021

• Three Pillars of Vaccine Equity: Triaging the Global Vaccination Challenge

  September 2021

• Towards the Marginalization of Multilateral Crisis Finance? The Global Financial Safety Net and COVID-19

  April 2021

• Climate Change and IMF Surveillance: The Need for Ambition

  March 2021

• Vaccinating the World: Waiving Intellectual Property Rules on COVID-19 Products

  March 2021

• The Global Financial Safety Net Tracker: Lessons for the COVID-19 Crisis from a New Interactive Dataset

  November 2020

• Expanding the Global Financial Safety Net

  November 2020

• The Need to Extend the WTO TRIPS Pharmaceuticals Transition Period for LDCs in the COVID-19 Era: Evidence from Bangladesh

  September 2020

• Growing Share of Online Trade Undercuts Government Ability to Pull-in Revenue

  July 2020

• Building the Future of Quality Infrastructure

  June 2020