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Otaviano Canuto

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Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute. Former Vice President and Executive Director at the World Bank, Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Vice President at the Inter-American Development Bank.

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BRICS in Times of Tectonic Shifts
Otaviano Canuto

Bruno Saraiva
Monday, July 21, 2025
This article assesses the economic performance of the original BRICS economies, relative to the growth and currency appreciation projections presented in the papers that introduced the acronym, prior to the grouping becoming a diplomatic, political, and economic reality. It also discusses the BRICS…
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Economy, International Relations, Macroeconomics and regulation, Geopolitics, International Cooperation, International Organisations
Opinion
Proposals for reforming the international financial architecture in a polarised world
Brahima Coulibaly

Wafa Abedin

Karim El Aynaoui

Akram Zaoui

Hafez Ghanem

Otaviano Canuto

Ferid Belhaj

Hinh T. Dinh
Friday, July 18, 2025
This Blog was originally published on t20southafrica.org The G20 should address reform challenges during South Africa's presidency, as ongoing geopolitical tensions obstruct global cooperation and complicate efforts to revamp the international financial architecture.
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Economy, Sectorial policies and structural transformation
Opinion
Lula’s BRICS balancing acts in Rio
Otaviano Canuto

Bruno Saraiva
Monday, July 14, 2025
The BRICS+ group of countries met in Rio de Janeiro over the weekend of 6-7 July. The original group – Brazil, Russia, India, China and, soon after, South Africa – emerged as the materialization of a work of fiction. Jim O’Neill, then chief economist at Goldman Sachs, produced a report in 2001…
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Asian Economic Integration Led by Trade Liberalization: A Lesson for Other Regions
Otaviano Canuto

Hung Q. Tran
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Developing countries have few options to deal with the ongoing tariff war amid unpredictable shifts in global supply chains. However, regional economic integration offers a strategic path of development in these uncertain and challenging times. Helped by geographical proximity and cultural…
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Economy, Trade, Sectorial policies and structural transformation, Asia
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The Global Impact of President Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs: Implications for Developing Countries
Hinh T. Dinh

Otaviano Canuto
Monday, June 23, 2025
President Donald Trump's "Reciprocal Tariff" policy, announced on April 2, 2025 (dubbed "Liberation Day"), represents one of the most significant shifts in U.S. trade policy in nearly a century. Trump’s policy imposes a baseline 10% tariff on all imports and additional country-specific tariffs that…
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Economy, Trade, Macroeconomics and regulation, North America
Paper in Academic Journals
From Bretton Woods to Braided Path: Navigating MDB Dynamics Amid Global Shifts
Pepe Zhang

Otaviano Canuto

Fernando Straface
Friday, June 13, 2025
This Paper was originally published on cebri.org Within an ever-evolving system of multilateral development banks (MDB) currently reshaped by four structural geo-economic trends, the emergence of new MDBs like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the New Development …
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The Challenge of Fostering Innovation and Accelerating Economic Growth in Brazil
Sérgio R. R. de Queiroz

Nicholas S. Vonortas

Otaviano Canuto
Friday, May 9, 2025
This paper aims to demonstrate how certain transformations in the international economy since the 1980s¾notably the globalization of firms and industries¾combined with a set of domestic challenges, disrupted the path of industrial and technological development that Brazil had pursued since the…
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Economy, Macroeconomics and regulation, Sectorial policies and structural transformation, Americas and Carribean, South America
Opinion
The Spring of Tariff Regret
Otaviano Canuto
Monday, May 5, 2025
Last week marked my twenty-third consecutive week attending the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, DC. While I no longer participate in the official sessions, I continue to be invited to the many side conventions and debates that surround them.A key moment is always the release of…
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Opinion
Africa's Minerals Will Shape the Future of Global Power
Otaviano Canuto

Sabrine Emran
Friday, May 2, 2025
This Opinion was originally published in Project Syndicate As the US-China rivalry intensifies, both powers are courting mineral-rich African countries in an effort to secure critical raw materials. Translating Africa's vast natural-resource wealth into lasting development requires an…
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Commodities & Energy, Natural Resources, Economy, Africa
Paper in Academic Journals
Growth Implications of a Fractured Trading System
Peter Drysdale

Alicia Garcia-Herrero

Nagesh Kumar

Otaviano Canuto

B. V. R. Subrahmanyam
Friday, March 21, 2025
This Chapter was originally published on springer.comSo, this session really is about what's happened to global trade in the last couple of decades, of course, really since the global financial crisis, trade dependency has levelled off, peaking at around 60% in 2008, 2009.
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