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Seven lessons for a British Investment Bank, Consequences of success and failure – Making a modern central bank
Thursday 12 November 2020 – Vol.11 Ed.46.4
Commentary: Lessons for a British Investment Bank
By Suma Chakrabarti in London
The case for a British Investment Bank is becoming increasingly compelling. The UK’s levelling up agenda, loss of funding from the EIB after Brexit, the notorious shyness of private capital to invest for the national good and pressures on the long-term public purse are all piling on the pressure. While debate rumbles on about how a putative BIB might look, the long-serving former president of the EBRD offers seven lessons to policy-makers from his own experience.
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Book launch: Making a modern central bank
Monday 23 November, 15:00-18:00 GMT
A series of upheavals at the Bank of England in the last 20 years of the 20th century provided the background to a monetary and economic revolution that reverberates still through global finance today. Harold James’ Making a Modern Central Bank examines the most turbulent period of change at the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street since its early years helping finance war with France after its foundation in 1694.
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