Otaviano Canuto, former State Secretary for International Affairs at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, is Executive Director on the Board of the World Bank for Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, the Philippines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. A former vice president and senior adviser at the World Bank, he previously served as Executive Director of the IMF and Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Prospects for global trade growth in 2016 and 2017 have been downgraded yet again, with the World Trade Organization estimating that, this year, trade will increase at its slowest pace since the post-… read more
Now that impeached Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is out of office, the newly empowered administration of President Michel Temer must clean up the mess she left behind. Can Temer’s government save… read more
After decades of rapid economic growth and per capita income gains, Brazil is struggling, with IMF forecasts indicating that the country’s GDP will decline by more than 7% in 2015-2016. This reversal … read more
One often hears that Brazil’s economy is stuck in the “middle-income trap,” having failed to revive the structural transformation and per capita income growth that it enjoyed before the debt crisis of… read more
Not long ago, many economists were anticipating a switchover in the global economy's main engines, with autonomous sources of growth in developing economies compensating for the drag of struggling adv… read more
The discussions at last month’s G-20 meeting of finance ministers were dominated by anxiety over so-called “currency wars.” But, to escape the crisis, global leaders must shift their focus to channeli… read more
The “middle-income trap” has snared many developing countries: they succeeded in evolving from low per capita income levels, but then appeared to stall, losing momentum along the route toward the high… read more
Not long ago, the separation of financial supervision and monetary policy was in vogue in many countries. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, however, financial supervision and macroecono… read more
While the rich world puts its post-crisis house in order, developing countries as a whole are becoming the new engine of global growth. But switching locomotives is never free of risk.
