Camila Villard Duran

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Camila Villard Duran is Professor of Law at the University of São Paulo, Senior Research Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme at the University of Oxford, and Visiting Researcher at the ISJPS at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

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Global Money for the Poor
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Global Money for the Poor

Aug 13, 2019 Camila Villard Duran hopes new technology will spur the establishment of a cheap, reliable payment system for the less well-off.

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Burying the Legal Ghosts of Brazil’s Hyperinflation
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Burying the Legal Ghosts of Brazil’s Hyperinflation

Feb 1, 2018 Camila Villard Duran & Arnoldo Wald say a pending settlement could mark the end of a long, painful chapter in the country's economic history.

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The Task Ahead for Brazil
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The Task Ahead for Brazil

Apr 15, 2016 Camila Villard Duran calls for an overhaul of the central bank and its relationship with the Treasury.

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Confronting the Coming Liquidity Crisis

Confronting the Coming Liquidity Crisis

Nov 6, 2015 Camila Villard Duran calls for a "coalition of the willing" to ensure global financial and monetary stability.

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Brazil’s Institutional Limbo
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Brazil’s Institutional Limbo

Oct 20, 2014 Camila Villard Duran says that Brazil's Central Bank needs reform, but neither presidential candidate has a credible plan.

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A Special Moment for Special Drawing Rights
Nov 1, 2015

Dear Ocampo, I absolutely agree with you: the time for the SDR is now - more than ever. Considering the G20 presidencies in 2015 and 2016 being held by emerging powers, it is time to put this very important institutional creation in practice to solve liquidity problems of emerging and developing countries. However, I disagree with you on how to do that: the future of the SDR, in my opinion, is less as world money and more as central hub for liquidity in a variety of supranational currencies (including, the RMB). The focus of the policy debate should change from the SDR as money per se towards the improvement of the SDR Department. I explained my argument in a recent policy brief published by the GEG /University of Oxford: http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/avoiding-next-liquidity-crunch-how-g20-must-support-monetary-cooperation-increase-resilience-crisis
Thank you for your op-ed. It is very insightful! All the best, Camila Duran

Europe on a Geopolitical Fault Line

Ana Palacio

China has begun to build a parallel international order, centered on itself. If the European Union aids in its construction – even just by positioning itself on the fault line between China and the United States – it risks toppling key pillars of its own edifice and, eventually, collapsing altogether.

Is Economic Winter Coming?

Raghuram G. Rajan

Now that the old rules governing macroeconomic cycles no longer seem to apply, it remains to be seen what might cause the next recession in the United States. But if recent history is our guide, the biggest threat stems not from the US Federal Reserve or any one sector of the economy, but rather from the White House.

Will China Confront a Revolution of Rising Expectations?

Barry Eichengreen

Amid much discussion of the challenges facing the Chinese economy, the line-up of usual suspects typically excludes the most worrying scenario of all: popular unrest. While skeptics would contend that widespread protest against the regime and its policies is unlikely, events elsewhere suggest that China is not immune.