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IMF Urges Policymakers to Introduce Measures to Counter Outbreak
March 11, 2020
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged policymakers across the globe to introduce targeted fiscal, monetary, and financial market measures aimed at helping businesses and households survive the coronavirus outbreak.
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Opinio Juris: Facebook Oversight Board Should Proceed with Caution (Part II)
March 06, 2020
Writing in Opinio Juris, two international law experts concern that Facebook's planned Oversight Board could become one of the world's most powerful human rights arbiters, with "the ability to impose sanctions and control the practical development of key elements of freedom of opinion and expression, privacy, and hate speech."
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Opinio Juris: Facebook Oversight Board Should Proceed with Caution (Part I)
March 06, 2020
Writing in Opinio Juris, two international law experts detail their concern that Facebook's planned Oversight Board could become one of the world's most powerful human rights arbiters, with "the ability to impose sanctions and control the practical development of key elements of freedom of opinion and expression, privacy, and hate speech."
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IMF Policy Paper Highlights Demographic Headwinds in Central and Eastern Europe
March 04, 2020
According to a July 2019 report of the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”) highlighted in a post to the IMF’s Finance & Development blog, the populations of Central and Eastern European countries—with the exception of Turkey—are expected to decrease significantly over the next 30 years, driven by low or negative net birth rates and outward migration, changes that will have significant implications for growth, living standards and fiscal sustainability.
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WaPo: U.N. Agency Sees Sharp Increase in Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
March 04, 2020
According to a Washington Post report, inspectors from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency have reported a near-tripling of Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium since November, with total holdings more than three times the 300-kilogram limit set by the nuclear accord.