Financial Sector

Resilience: Sri Lanka’s strength to navigate an uncertain future

From food insecurity and lack of services, to limited or no economic opportunities, millions of Sri Lankans are facing acute risks and deprivations.

Faris Hadad-Zervos|
Competitiveness, Debt, Financial Sector, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty

CBDC and financial inclusion: Changing the paradigm (Part 2)

CBDC — while not a silver bullet to address financial inclusion — would put the central bank under extreme pressure to ensure that CBDC access would be guaranteed everywhere, always, and to…

Biagio Bossone|
Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector

The 2022 IMF-World Bank Group Annual Meetings: Unity in a time of crises

The 2022 IMF/World Bank Group Annual Meetings: Unity in a time of crises

John Mackedon|
Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Debt, Education, Environment, Financial Sector, Health, Nutrition, Poverty

The urgent need for data to understand the link between taxation and women’s economic empowerment

Taxation offers an objective and measurable benchmark for global progress toward gender equality. However, we lack a global picture of how women are treated by tax policies. To address the gap,…

Hannelore Maria Leona Niesten, Marie Caitriona Hyland|
Competitiveness, Debt, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Gender, Governance, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management

CBDC and financial inclusion: Changing the paradigm (Part 1)

Central banks seem to be looking at CBDC as the silver bullet for finally filling the gaps of unsuccessful (or not fully successful) financial inclusion strategies. Is this justified?

Biagio Bossone|
Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector
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Financial Sector