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GlobalMarkets (formerly known as Emerging Markets) is the newspaper of record at the IMF/World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) annual meetings. Click here for more information about GlobalMarkets.

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FEATURES and OPINION

• Hob and spoke: the Indonesia start-ups that morphed into an Asian giant

  

  The Indonesian founders of a social enterprise to help rural women cook and a platform for bike taxis combined their operations to form GoPay, a payments system that has become the largest digital wallet in southeast Asia.

  • 12 Oct 2018

• Philippines moves to keep growth on track

  

  The Philippines is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. But have infrastructure shortfalls, weak tax revenues and tight rules for foreign companies held the country back from even faster growth? Sonny Dominguez, the country’s finance minister, intends to find out.

  • 12 Oct 2018

• Goldfajn: Fiscal reforms crucial for sustainable recovery

  

  Brazil’s central bank governor Ilan Goldfajn tells GlobalMarkets he is determined to push through the pension reform that would prevent the fiscal deficit spiralling out of control.

  • 12 Oct 2018

• Supranationals to copy African Development Bank’s securitization breakthrough

  

  Private investors are reluctant to co-invest with development banks in poor countries. A potentially exciting alternative is securitization, which allows investors to take slices in whole portfolios and could expand the MDBs’ lending firepower.

  • 12 Oct 2018

• Fragile state: World Bank poverty target rests on weakest economies

  

  If the World Bank is to hit Jim Yong Kim’s target to end extreme poverty, it will have to find a solution for the 2 billion people living in fragile states

  • 11 Oct 2018

• IMF strives to get its multilateral mojo back

  

  The IMF needs to take steps to bolster its reputation as the guardian of multilateralism, ahead of a possible meltdown in emerging markets that could put the Fund centre stage of any rescue effort.

  • 10 Oct 2018

News & Features Archive

• FINAL WORD: Günther Bräunig

  

  International co-operation now more important than ever

  • 13 Oct 2018

• FINAL WORD: Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  

  ASEAN has the spirit of perseverance

  • 12 Oct 2018

• FINAL WORD: Steve Keen

  

  We’ll overcome our debt problems by accident

  • 10 Oct 2018

• FINAL WORD: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  

  Development finance institutions are catalysts for a better world

  • 10 Oct 2018

 

 

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