IMFBlog2019-11-27T13:40:16-05:00November 25, 2019|
By Tobias Adrian and Ashraf Khan
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
In August 1694, the Bank of England opened for business with a staff of 19. The original Royal Charter, granted by King William and Queen Mary, tasked the Bank to “promote the public Good and Benefit of our People.” (more…)
IMFBlog2019-10-16T13:18:52-04:00October 16, 2019|
By Tobias Adrian and Fabio Natalucci
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, Português, 日本語, Русский
The pace of global economic activity remains weak, and financial markets expect rates to stay lower for longer than anticipated in early 2019. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-10-11T12:30:41-04:00October 11, 2019|
By Claudio Raddatz and Adolfo Barajas
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When a Mexican airline buys Brazilian airplanes, it’s likely to finance the purchase with a US dollar loan obtained from a non-US bank. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-10-11T09:21:41-04:00October 10, 2019|
Evan Papageorgiou, Jochen Schmittmann, and Felix Suntheim
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Unsafe working conditions. Use of child or forced labor. Environmental impact on protected areas. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-10-02T09:17:06-04:00October 2, 2019|
By Michal Andrle, Cheng Hoon Lim and Troy Matheson
Policymakers across the world worry about affordable housing. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-09-30T08:36:17-04:00September 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…)
IMFBlog2019-09-12T10:53:38-04:00September 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…)
IMFBlog2019-09-09T14:05:07-04:00September 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…)
IMFBlog2019-09-09T08:45:51-04:00September 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…)
IMFBlog2019-08-27T09:50:01-04:00August 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…)
