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|
IMFBlog2021-06-24T10:00:29-04:00June 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. […]
IMFBlog2021-06-17T11:00:19-04:00June 14, 2021|
By Luc Eyraud, Catherine Pattillo, and Abebe Aemro Selassie
African economies are at a pivotal juncture. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought economic activity to a standstill. Africa’s hard-won economic gains of the last two decades, critical in improving living standards, could be reversed. […]
IMFBlog2021-06-15T16:05:04-04:00June 10, 2021|
By Lone Engbo Christiansen, Ashique Habib, Margaux MacDonald, and Davide Malacrino
عربي, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
Producing and consuming more goods and services for the same amount of work sounds too good to be true. In fact, it’s entirely possible. Higher productivity is one of the key ingredients to higher economic growth and incomes. It’s all about how workers become more productive. […]
IMFBlog2021-06-09T09:41:58-04:00June 8, 2021|
By Martin Stuermer and Nico Valckx
As economies reopen in various parts of the world, the price of some commodities has soared, including the prices of prominent industrial metals. The extent to which the metals price rally may lose steam depends on how multiple factors will play out. […]
IMFBlog2021-07-01T09:51:39-04:00June 2, 2021|
By Gita Bhatt
We focus this issue of Finance & Development on the road ahead for emerging markets, a label frequently applied to economies in the middle—neither advanced nor low-income. Because of their growing systemic relevance, this group of countries helps anchor global stability. […]
IMFBlog2021-06-01T12:00:40-04:00May 26, 2021|
By Alfred Kammer, Andrea Schaechter, and Andreas Tudyka
Already before the pandemic, many store or restaurant workers living in a major city in Europe had to spend more than half of their household’s income on rent. […]
