IMFBlog2019-09-30T08:36:17-05:00September 30, 2019|
By Esha Chhabra and Bidisha Das
Thanks to mobile money, any person with a basic phone can now make cash transfers, pay bills, and send money to family members abroad without having a bank account. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-09-12T10:53:38-05:00September 10, 2019|
By Ashok Vir Bhatia, Srobona Mitra, and Anke Weber
When savers and firms invest and borrow beyond their national borders, they enjoy opportunities to diversify their portfolios and lower their funding costs, respectively. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-09-09T14:05:07-05:00September 9, 2019|
By Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom, and Davide Furceri
Rising trade uncertainty is cited as a driving factor for “sluggish global growth” in the current issue of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook, which describes the state of the world economy. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-09-09T08:45:51-05:00September 4, 2019|
By William Oman
July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded on earth, with countries across the world experiencing record-breaking temperatures. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-08-27T09:50:01-05:00August 26, 2019|
By Tobias Adrian, Dong He, Nellie Liang, and Fabio Natalucci
“It’s awful. Why did nobody see it coming?” asked Queen Elizabeth II in November 2008 during a visit to the London School of Economics, wondering why nobody had predicted the Global Financial Crisis. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-08-23T09:21:28-05:00August 21, 2019|
By Gustavo Adler, Luis Cubeddu, and Gita Gopinath
Escalating trade tensions are taking a toll on the global economy and are partly responsible for the recent downward revisions to our growth forecasts for 2019-20. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-08-14T07:30:12-05:00August 14, 2019|
By IMFBlog
Pensions, education, healthcare, better infrastructure, technology, and climate change: fiscal policymakers have their work cut out for them on many fronts. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-08-08T07:31:29-05:00August 8, 2019|
By Emanuel Kopp, Daniel Leigh, and Suchanan Tambunlertchai
US business investment has been on the rise. Since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2017, US businesses have bought more machinery, developed software, and created new intellectual property. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-08-07T07:54:48-05:00August 7, 2019|
By IMFBlog
Following a period of escalating prices, Canada’s housing market is cooling. Measures designed to strengthen financial stability such as more stringent tests of borrowers’ ability to repay their loans, along with higher interest rates, combined to make mortgage financing more expensive. (more…)
