IMFBlog2021-07-26T16:09:03-04:00July 26, 2021|
By Tobias Adrian and Rhoda Weeks-Brown
New digital forms of money have the potential to provide cheaper and faster payments, enhance financial inclusion, improve resilience and competition among payment providers, and facilitate cross-border transfers. […]
IMFBlog2021-07-26T16:29:27-04:00July 26, 2021|
By Christian Mumssen and Seán Nolan
中文, Español, 日本語, Português, Русский
Low-income countries have been hard hit by the pandemic. Their large financing needs are only likely to grow as they deal with the crisis and its economic aftermath. […]
IMFBlog2021-07-23T10:07:38-04:00July 22, 2021|
By Florence Jaumotte and Gregor Schwerhoff
عربي, 中文, Español, 日本語, Português, Русский
Climate action is gaining momentum. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries have intensified climate action and many have committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050, meaning that any additional carbon emissions will be offset completely by carbon emissions withdrawn from the atmosphere. […]
IMFBlog2021-07-22T10:33:21-04:00July 21, 2021|
By Romain Duval, Davide Furceri, and Marina M. Tavares
Some central banks are currently debating whether to tighten monetary policy to fight inflationary pressures, after having eased decisively in response to the COVID-19 shock. […]
IMFBlog2021-07-21T12:52:13-04:00July 20, 2021|
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
Since March 2020, governments have spent $16 trillion providing fiscal support amid the pandemic, and global central banks have increased their balance sheets by a combined $7.5 trillion. Deficits are the highest they have been since World War II and central banks have provided more liquidity in the past year than in the past 10 years combined. […]
IMFBlog2021-07-16T10:15:26-04:00July 15, 2021|
By Estelle Xue Liu, Karim Foda, and Sebastian Weber
One of the positive surprises about last year’s recession is how little damage it inflicted on average household and corporate balance sheets in Europe. […]
IMFBlog2021-07-14T09:33:44-04:00July 13, 2021|
By Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, Samuel Pienknagura, and Luca Ricci
Protests driven by the pandemic’s economic fallout are on the rise, with potentially long-lasting economic consequences.
Protests can be catalysts for political reform and social change. But what impact do they have on the economy? […]
IMFBlog2021-07-09T11:34:00-04:00July 7, 2021|
IMFBlog2021-06-30T12:28:25-04:00June 28, 2021|
By Kristalina Georgieva and Abebe Aemro Selassie
中文, Español, Français, Português
Sub-Saharan Africa is in the grips of a third wave of COVID-19 infections that threatens to be even more brutal than the two that came before. […]
IMFBlog2021-06-24T10:00:29-04:00June 24, 2021|
By Christian Bogmans, Andrea Pescatori, and Ervin Prifti
Rising world food prices for producers are making headlines and causing concerns among the public. The most recent data show a moderation in consumer food price inflation globally, but as we explain below, that could change in the coming months. […]
