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…)
IMFBlog2019-07-02T09:00:07-05:00July 2, 2019|
By Tobias Adrian, Rohit Goel and Fabio Natalucci
The slope of the yield curve in the US has inverted in recent months, making long-term debt significantly cheaper than short-term debt. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-06-18T11:34:02-05:00June 18, 2019|
By Jason Harris, Abdelhak Senhadji, and Alexander F. Tieman
Our new data on government assets shows that when governments know what they own, they can make better use of the assets for the well-being of all their citizens. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-06-18T14:28:45-05:00June 18, 2019|
By Poul Thomsen
As we approach the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former socialist countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) have made tremendous progress in becoming full-fledged market economies and raising income levels. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-06-10T08:00:45-05:00June 10, 2019|
IMFBlog2019-06-19T09:26:31-05:00June 5, 2019|
IMFBlog2019-05-30T16:36:18-05:00May 30, 2019|
By Gita Bhatt
If Lord Keynes, who helped usher in the post–World War II economic order at the Bretton Woods conference, visited the IMF today, he would be astonished at the institution’s evolution. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-08-21T14:07:25-05:00May 28, 2019|
IMFBlog2019-05-21T09:18:30-05:00May 21, 2019|
By Romain Duval and Prakash Loungani
Emerging market economies have enjoyed good growth in recent decades but are still far from closing gaps in living standards with advanced economies. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-05-20T14:00:39-05:00May 20, 2019|
By Petya Koeva Brooks, Martin Mühleisen, and Chad Steinberg
The IMF’s Review of Program Design and Conditionality provides a deep look into the design of 133 IMF-supported lending programs in operation between September 2011 and December 2017. (more…)
