Ethiopis Tafara

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Ethiopis Tafara is Vice President for Corporate Risk and Sustainability and General Counsel at the International Finance Corporation.

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Improving the Sustainability of Development Finance
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Improving the Sustainability of Development Finance

Mar 7, 2018 Ethiopis Tafara says that achieving the world's development goals demands better risk management by emerging-market banks.

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Doing Well by Doing Good
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Doing Well by Doing Good

Jun 27, 2016 Ethiopis Tafara examines some of the growing number of companies that are making profits and improving the world.

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Capital Markets for Development
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Capital Markets for Development

May 22, 2015 Ethiopis Tafara describes how poor countries would benefit by adopting advanced countries' financing mechanisms.

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Can Europe Become a Global Player?

Mark Leonard

As the nominee to serve as the EU's next High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell will have an opportunity to update Europe's approach to foreign policy. Chief among the challenges facing the bloc is to reassert its own sovereignty in an age of great-power politics.

Is Politics Getting to the Fed?

Robert J. Barro

In the early 1980s, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker, was able to choke off runaway inflation because he was afforded the autonomy necessary to implement steep interest-rate hikes. Today, the Fed is clearly under unprecedented political pressure, and it is starting to show.