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Stephanie Segal. About the Commission The Covid-19 pandemic exposed deep and diverse weaknesses in U.S. global health security policy and infrastructure and triggered massive health, economic, and social crises. The CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security drove discourse and developed concrete, pragmatic action agendas for ...
Stephanie Segal is a senior fellow of the CSIS Economics Program, where she studies economic competitiveness, U.S.-China economic relations, and the role of international financial institutions in the global economy. She was the codirector of the East Asia Office at the U.S. Department of the Treasury until 2017 and a senior economist at the IMF before that.
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Sep 29, 2022 · Stephanie Segal is a senior fellow with the Economics Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a former U.S. official. She comments on the role of the U.S. government and the private sector in mobilizing climate finance to achieve net-zero emissions and support developing countries. She also discusses the challenges and opportunities of emissions measurement, reporting, and standards.
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- Policy Space and Debt Sustainability
- Debt Sustainability, Dssi, and The Common Framework
- Proposals to Create Fiscal Space
- New Instruments as Catalysts
- Conclusion
Global health challenges threaten the United States’ health and economic security, a reality made painfully clear over the past 14 months. Many low- and middle-income countries lack adequate domestic resources to invest in public health and, at the same time, face mounting debt burdens that impede their ability to raise new funding for essential in...
Even after the Covid-19 pandemic is contained, the United States will remain vulnerable to global health security threats unless and until it prioritizes domestic and international investments in public health. Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) lack adequate domestic resources to invest in public health and, at the same time, face mount...
The Covid-19 pandemic and economic fallout are by definition global, but country responses have been anything but universal. LMICs are confronting dual health and economic crises but with considerably less space to apply countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies than most advanced economies. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimatesthat, i...
Many countries entered the crisis with debt already at record levels; the pandemic and its economic fallout have pushed even more countries toward unsustainable fiscal positions. The latest publicly available Debt Sustainability Analysesunder the World Bank and IMF’s joint Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC-DSF) assess 38 o...
Absent efforts to create fiscal space through additional donor support, many LMICs will be forced to scale back pandemic response and recovery efforts in the short term, as well as investments in health, education, infrastructure, and future pandemic preparedness in the medium term. Such an outcome would fail to address the current health emergency...
Debt treated under the Common Framework and any debt-for-health swaps would create new securities, which could both improve the debtor country’s economic sustainability and catalyze broader systemic reforms. Greater Harmonization. The issuance of new securities can advance the goal of greater harmonization of measurement and reporting related to th...
The various proposals to create fiscal space present an ambitious set of options to meet the urgent needs facing many LMICs. Heightened U.S. leadership, in partnership with the international community, will significantly raise the prospects for durable solutions, benefiting both LMICs and the United States’ own health security. Additional consultat...
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Feb 28, 2023 · Stephanie Segal is a senior fellow with the Economics Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Commentary is produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a private, tax-exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues.
