AI is coming for (some) finance jobs on.ft.com/3UQ5L55

I'll be presenting on how to Assess Creditor Contributions to Easing the EM Liquidity Crunch in the opening plenary (paper w Diego Rivetti , Anirudh Bharadwaj).

Question for today's GST Council Meeting: How simple is India's GST? Answer in our Business Standard piece is sobering Nearly 45 distinct rates (Table 1) Complexity from duty inversion & arbitrary, value- & end-use based classifications (Table 2) Costs to govt. & taxpayer are huge 1/

Hidden debt = hidden risk. Despite recent improvements, #DebtTransparency gaps remain among some developing countries, potentially giving rise to new hidden debts. We cannot afford to wait for the vicious cycle that a lack of transparency can set off ➡️ wrld.bg/Y0vZ50WzAnN

#DebtTransparency is not merely about better data disclosure, it is about financing development. Despite recent improvements, major transparency gaps remain. We need to act now to avoid the the vicious cycle that a lack of transparency can set off. ➡️ wrld.bg/HG5k50WVtVV

Stephen Paduano and I discussed the potential use of SDRs in our FT piece -- though we didn't discuss directly lending them to Argentina (they could be used to directly repay the IMF, freeing up Argentine funds for other uses) 2/2 ft.com/content/5f4bb8…