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  • Central banks from Washington to Frankfurt via London are revising their strategies in light of stubbornly low inflation. A repeat of the 1980s Plaza and Louvre accords is unlikely this week but there is mutual movement towards looser policy
  • China looks to be first out of the blocks with a central bank digital currency, but experts say it appears to be a more domestic initiative compared with projects being collaborated on by the world’s other leading institutions
  • International financial institutions helped Cambodia build up a microfinance sector whose loans now amount to a third of the country’s GDP. But amid fears that growth is unsustainable experts are worried about an imminent collapse that would be devasting for the emerging economy
  • Frontier economies have been hard hit by the Covid pandemic and some of their central bank governors believe that the IMF needs to fine tune its loan instruments to give help to those that are hanging on by a thread
  • Morocco is one of the few African countries to have successfully tapped international debt, and now the kingdom’s finance minister is focused on strengthening social safety nets to help Moroccans share in its post-virus recovery.
  • In the facing of rising inequality in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, leading policymakers in the United and Europe are starting to set out the elements of a new policy architecture needed to focus on issues such as childcare, the impacts of climate change and the need for infrastructure investment
  • The G20 announced a six month extension to the debt suspension its members agreed to in April, yet it could do nothing but petition private sector creditors to take part — an appeal that appears to be falling on deaf ears
  • The scale of the economic crisis has forced central banks to adopt unorthodox policies such debt monetisation — the central bank buying bonds to fund the governments’ spending needs. But some fear emerging markets will open themselves up to exchange rate pressures
  • The World Bank says it cannot follow its own advice to member countries to cancel debts to poor economies for fearing of losing its AAA status, but a new report says it can bypass that by setting up a new vehicle
  • Oil prices, which are key to the public finances of many MENA states, have recovered somewhat since their abrupt slump earlier this year but experts are not optimistic they will regain the levels seen at the start of 2020
  • Mexico finds itself in the unusual position of being told by the IMF to be less frugal, prompting the country’s deputy finance minister to defend the recent budget, pointing out that Mexico does not have the fiscal room for more spending.
  • The drop in oil prices this year, fuelled by lower global demand due to coronavirus lockdowns, has devastated Middle East governments’ budgets, causing deficits to balloon. Despite measures being taken to fill spending gaps, experts say the future will be rocky if demand for oil stays below pre-crisis levels.