The Bank of Finland has organised this conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Bank of Finland Museum.

This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank's early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps toward recovery, focusing on the health and social response.

Recovery from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis has been divergent across jurisdictions. In many emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs), limited ability to provide additional policy support, in particular in the form of fiscal stimulus, weighed on the recovery.

This report tracks national and regional progress in implementing the G20 reforms to global over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets reforms following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.

As part of the exhibition series “La jeune photographie allemande”, this year, students of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne are showing photographic-installative works under the title “The End/ Not the End?” that deal with the global dimension and complexity of the ecological crisis. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation organises the exhibition series annually in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Paris.

As the COVID‐19 crisis recedes, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is back to work and looking forward. Reported deaths related to the pandemic are low and have plausibly converged to global levels. Yet low vaccination rates in some countries leave them vulnerable to new variants.

Elevated commodity prices could prolong inflationary pressures