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Crisis Academy

desk drawer was always empty. “Financial crises are probably the most devastating economic events that can happen to a country,” says Geithner, who fought the last conflagration as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and later US Treasury secretary. “I’d like our successors to have a better base of knowledge.” So every summer, Geithner takes time of from his job as president of Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm, to help teach a two-week crisis management workshop for regulators from around the world. It’s one part of the Yale Program on

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FD; F&D; income; worker; remittances migrant; population aging; economy; social insurance policy; governance of migration; s story; desk drawer; Personal income; Women; Income inequality; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; South Asia; Tax allowances; Social assistance spending; bond VigilanteBook review; time TravelerStraight talk; ProtectionPoint of view; crisis manager; systemic financial crisis; crisis Academy; private equity firm; Global financial crisis of 2008-2009; Financial sector stability
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Finance & Development, December 2018
International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
This paper focuses on overcoming fears of technology and globalization means rethinking the rights and obligations of citizenship. While the causes of our discontent vary, they all point to the need to revitalize politics, economics, and social contract to provide citizens with a greater sense of security and confidence in the face of impending changes. The backlash highlights the need for a new social contract, one that adapts to changed economic realities and better manages the social implications of globalization. The social contract includes the payment of taxes in exchange for public goods, and the way that society looks after the old, the young, the infirm, and those who have fallen on hard times. Countries with greater social mobility grow faster because they more effectively match people to the right jobs. Another way to address inequality would be to put a floor under incomes, which would help ensure that even low-wage earners can enjoy a reasonable standard of living.
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FD; F&D; income; worker; remittances migrant; population aging; economy; social insurance policy; governance of migration; s story; desk drawer; Personal income; Women; Income inequality; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; South Asia; Tax allowances; Social assistance spending; bond VigilanteBook review; time TravelerStraight talk; ProtectionPoint of view
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Front Matter
International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
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FD; F&D; income; worker; remittances migrant; population aging; economy; social insurance policy; governance of migration; s story; desk drawer; Personal income; Women; Income inequality; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; South Asia; Tax allowances; Social assistance spending; bond VigilanteBook review; time TravelerStraight talk; ProtectionPoint of view
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On the Move

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FD; F&D; income; worker; remittances migrant; population aging; economy; social insurance policy; governance of migration; s story; desk drawer; Personal income; Women; Income inequality; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; South Asia; Tax allowances; Social assistance spending; bond VigilanteBook review; time TravelerStraight talk; ProtectionPoint of view; migration issue; international migration; Migration
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Editor’s Letter: A New Social Contract
International Monetary Fund. Communications Department

Finance and Development

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FD; F&D; income; worker; remittances migrant; population aging; economy; social insurance policy; governance of migration; s story; desk drawer; Personal income; Women; Income inequality; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; South Asia; Tax allowances; Social assistance spending; bond VigilanteBook review; time TravelerStraight talk; ProtectionPoint of view; automation march; rise of populism; economic insecurity; Aging; Labor markets; Global financial crisis of 2008-2009
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A New Social Contract

Finance and Development

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FD; F&D; income; worker; remittances migrant; population aging; economy; social insurance policy; governance of migration; s story; desk drawer; Personal income; Women; Income inequality; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; South Asia; Tax allowances; Social assistance spending; bond VigilanteBook review; time TravelerStraight talk; ProtectionPoint of view; market income; income shift; public goods; stimulus plan; worker education; Aging; Automation
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Reimagining Social Protection

Finance and Development

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FD; F&D; income; worker; remittances migrant; population aging; economy; social insurance policy; governance of migration; s story; desk drawer; Personal income; Women; Income inequality; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; South Asia; Tax allowances; Social assistance spending; bond VigilanteBook review; time TravelerStraight talk; ProtectionPoint of view; social insurance program; savings plan; World Bank pension database; unemployment insurance program; labor market decision; Employment
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Point of View: Hardly Anyone Is Too Poor to Share

Finance and Development

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FD; F&D; income; worker; remittances migrant; population aging; economy; social insurance policy; governance of migration; s story; desk drawer; Personal income; Women; Income inequality; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; South Asia; Tax allowances; Social assistance spending; bond VigilanteBook review; time TravelerStraight talk; ProtectionPoint of view; com-bated poverty; policy priority; protection policy implementation; inhumane poverty; Social protection spending
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Shifting Tides

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FD; F&D; income; worker; remittances migrant; population aging; economy; social insurance policy; governance of migration; s story; desk drawer; Personal income; Women; Income inequality; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; South Asia; Tax allowances; Social assistance spending; bond VigilanteBook review; time TravelerStraight talk; ProtectionPoint of view; health risk; state activity; labor market relation; employment status; State involvement; Pension spending; Pensions; Employment; Labor markets
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Seeking Balance

Finance and Development

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FD; F&D; income; worker; remittances migrant; population aging; economy; social insurance policy; governance of migration; s story; desk drawer; Personal income; Women; Income inequality; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; South Asia; Tax allowances; Social assistance spending; bond VigilanteBook review; time TravelerStraight talk; ProtectionPoint of view; government enterprise; government policy; state-society model; Xi's government; poverty-reduction fund; Pension spending; Pensions; Public enterprises