A group of leading scholars and practitioners discussed on 24 May 2022 how EMEs are affected by current global challenges, including inflation, rising global interest rates and trade disruptions, as well as the macro and structural policy priorities to address these challenges and the prospects for growth and inequality. Speakers: • Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development Professor at Ashoka University. • Laura Alfaro, Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. • Otaviano Canuto, Senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Institution, a professorial lecturer at George Washington University, and principal of the Center for Macroeconomics and Development. • Rabah Arezki, Senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, former Chief Economist at the African Development Bank and former Chief Economist. Chair: • Isabell Koske, Deputy Director of the OECD Economics Department, Country Studies Branch.