Paul M. Bisca

Fragility, conflict & security @ international organizations. #Cartoons at Co-host at @fworldpodcast. 🇷🇴🇺🇸 Views=my own

[Paul M. Bisca @pmbisca]

From fragile states to NATO states, the question is often asked: How to build #defense 🪖 & #security 👮‍♀️institutions that are affordable, well-governed, & effective? Our book focused on budgets & following the💰to link security with economic development 👇

[World Bank Group Publications @WBGPubs]

This book offers a framework for analyzing public financial management, financial transparency, and oversight, as well as expenditure policy issues that determine how to most appropriately manage security and justice services.
👉Download: https://t.co/4SPYur6yOK

#DisarmamentWeek

[IMF @IMFNews]

Alongside their devastating human toll, conflicts impose large & lasting economic costs. Economic activity drops sharply in conflict‑affected economies, down by 3% at onset & reaching cumulative losses of nearly 7% within 5 years. This exceeds the costs of financial crises and severe natural disasters. https://t.co/Lq0Dsa8Mmp

[IMF @IMFNews]

Fragility does not stop at the border. It impacts neighboring regions through cross-border insecurity, migration, refugee flows, and trade disruptions. Addressing fragility in any country supports broader global stability. More in our blog. https://t.co/GO2FLPf1jq

[IMF Africa @IMFAfrica]

Fragility does not stop at the border. It impacts neighboring regions through cross-border insecurity, migration, refugee flows, and trade disruptions. Addressing fragility in any country supports broader global stability. More in our new blog. https://t.co/SViO3jIdq0

[Paul M. Bisca @pmbisca]

When States Break, Economies Follow

Fragility is a lens through which some of the most consequential risks to global stability come into focus. About 38 economies home to 1 billion people are fragile and #conflict-affected, while other emerging markets and richer countries suffer from social stress, inequality, polarization, or violence driven by organized crime. These forces fundamentally distort how economies operate. In a time of greater #geopolitical fragmentation, understanding the fragility spectrum is central to assessing country #risks and opportunities for anyone tracking the global economy.

In our new paper, we show what happens to economic performance when the forces of #fragility intensify. When institutions are weak, fiscal weakness creates self-reinforcing vulnerabilities, and shocks hit harder. We also look at what policies leaders can implement to strengthen the state and make it an enabler of growth and resilience.

https://t.co/vedy4gt0qi

[Paul M. Bisca @pmbisca]

A new cartoon on AI 🙂

[Bureau-Crazy @BureauCrazy_DC]

A cartoon on being real
#AI #ArtificialInteligence
https://t.co/ojfnPrMrFY

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

[Bureau-Crazy @BureauCrazy_DC]

A cartoon on good intentions 👇
https://t.co/pZcRVT5Ksx

#bureaucracy

[Paul M. Bisca @pmbisca]

New cartoon 🙂

[Bureau-Crazy @BureauCrazy_DC]

A cartoon on crisis management
#strategy #development
https://t.co/DQNZfQChmN

[Ceyla Pazarbasioglu @CeylaP_IMF]

ICYMI, @IMFnews recently published a paper on macroeconomic developments in low-income countries (1/4) https://t.co/8O9o9FwQ2A

[Arthur Brand (art detective) @brand_arthur]

Alex van Breemen, a Dutch businessman living in Romania, has just offered a REWARD of Euro 100.000 for information leading to the recovery of the precious Dacian objects, stolen last Saturday in the Netherlands.

Please retweet

[Paul M. Bisca @pmbisca]

@brand_arthur What horror indeed - hopefully you can help get them back.

[Arthur Brand (art detective) @brand_arthur]

Breaking: Last night thieves entered the Drents Museum in Assen, The Netherlands, with the use of explosives. They got away with precious objects from the ehibition 'Dacia - Realm of Gold and Silver'. The display features treasures from the ancient kingdom of Dacia. What a horror

[Paul M. Bisca @pmbisca]

@MichaelShurkin Your next video should then be in the style of Larry David

[Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev]

A new paper, just to provoke - on the political economy of economic policy advice - just out in Journal of African Economies. https://t.co/ve3w7JdQ7F

[Paul M. Bisca @pmbisca]

May we choose the right keys to 2025!
#newyear2025 @BureauCrazy_DC

[Bureau-Crazy @BureauCrazy_DC]

New Year, new dilemmas 🙂
https://t.co/xs43tjRdwr

#newyear2025 #growthmindset

[Bureau-Crazy @BureauCrazy_DC]

New Year, new dilemmas 🙂
https://t.co/xs43tjRdwr

#newyear2025 #growthmindset

[Paul M. Bisca @pmbisca]

@BBCSteveR Thanks for sharing this. Do you know who read the "Romania" magazine back in the USSR?

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

It’s 35 years since the Romanian revolution and the fall of Ceausescu. Time to bring out a magazine I bought all those years ago...in Moscow.

[Paul M. Bisca @pmbisca]

@Emishor A strange proof of Romania's development over the past 35 years

[Paul M. Bisca @pmbisca]

One way to never fail 👇
#development #aid #endpoverty

[Bureau-Crazy @BureauCrazy_DC]

A cartoon on ambition and realism 🙂
https://t.co/WcV4mb0LRK
#development #strategy #endpoverty