IMFBlog2020-02-26T08:30:22-05:00February 26, 2020|
By David Lipton
Across sub-Saharan Africa, a visit to a school offers both a vision of hope for the future, and a reminder of the difficulties in attaining that vision. My recent visit to Sierra Leone and Niger brought this duality into sharp focus. (more…)
IMFBlog2020-01-15T16:07:45-05:00January 13, 2020|
By David Lipton
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
Last March, Operation Taiex led to the arrest of the gang leader behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks on over 100 financial institutions worldwide. This law enforcement operation included the Spanish national police, Europol, FBI, the Romanian, Moldovan, Belarusian, and Taiwanese authorities, as well as private cybersecurity companies. Investigators found out that hackers were operating in at least 15 countries.
IMFBlog2019-11-21T17:12:24-05:00November 21, 2019|
By Emilio Fernandez Corugedo and Jaime Guajardo
The world’s newest migration crisis is unfolding in Latin America, where Venezuela’s economic collapse and unprecedented humanitarian crisis has sparked a wave of emigration to neighboring countries. (more…)
IMFBlog2019-11-06T14:17:47-05:00October 18, 2019|
By Davide Furceri, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Chris Papageorgiou
Economic reforms are often painful in the short term and hence unpopular, but does that mean reform-minded leaders always pay a price at the ballot box? (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…)
IMFBlog2019-07-02T09:00:07-05:00July 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|
