Finance & Development

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Swimming Upstream

Alan Wheatley

Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Center for Global Development.

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Tongue Tide

Barry R. Chiswick

The economics of language offers important lessons for how Europe can best integrate migrants

Lagarde on European migrant crisis

Learning language

A Ride in Rough Waters

Raju Huidrom, M. Ayhan Kose, and Franziska L. Ohnsorge

Emerging markets buoyed the world after the global financial crisis, but are now in a major slowdown

Transmission Troubles

Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Christian Ebeke, and Anne Oeking

Heavy inflows of remittances impair a country’s ability to conduct monetary policy

Capital Buffers

Jihad Dagher, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, Lev Ratnovski, and Hui Tong

How much capital banks need is an important public policy question

Dollar Dependence

Luis A.V. Catão and Marco E. Terrones

The move away from domestic dollar use ended in most emerging markets after the global crisis, but not in Peru

Hidden Value

Edward F. Buffie, Michele Andreolli, Bin Grace Li, and Luis-Felipe Zanna

Public-private partnerships have been criticized as too costly, but when the whole economic picture is considered, they look much better

Public-private partnerships