Needed—A Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age
Global principles on data policy can help level the playing field while addressing financial stability and inclusion, competition, and privacy.
How Strengthening Standards for Data and Disclosure Can Make for a Greener Future
By Caio Ferreira, Fabio Natalucci, Ranjit Singh, and Felix Suntheim
Imagine you plan to invest your savings and are looking for a firm or sector with a sustainable business model or a project that can make a real difference in the transition to a low-carbon economy. […]
Chart of the WeekData Disruption: The Impact of COVID-19 on Inflation Measurement
Lockdowns, working from home, and physical distancing caused people to spend larger shares of their household budgets on food and housing, while fewer people bought nonessentials, like airline tickets and clothing. […]
Keeping Economic Data Flowing During COVID-19
By Louis Marc Ducharme, James Tebrake, and Zaijin Zhan
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Accurate and timely economic data are crucial for informing policy decisions, especially during a crisis. But the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the production of many key statistics. […]
The Economics of Data
By Yan Carrière-Swallow and Vikram Haksar
Look around the global economy and you’ll see an American company developing the next generation of driverless cars, a Chinese financier extending loans to “mom-and-pop” stores that used to lack access to credit, and researchers at a Swiss pharmaceutical company developing a treatment for a chronic health condition. […]
Chart of the Week: Invest in Robots and People in Asia
By IMFBlog
August 29, 2018
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An engineer adjusts a robot arm in a robotics plant in Shenyang, China, where industrial robots are widely used for manufacturing (photo: Yang Qing Xinhua News Agency/Newscom)
With about 1 million robots in use in Asia, robotics and automation mean economic risks and growth opportunities for the region. […]
Estimating Cyber Risk for the Financial Sector
June 22, 2018
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Average annual losses to financial institutions from cyber-attacks could reach a few hundred billion dollars a year (photo: Eti Ammos/iStock by Getty Images)
Cyber risk has emerged as a significant threat to the financial system. […]
Creating a Better Global Trade System
May 29, 2018
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Engineers inspect the 3D printing of a bicycle frame in California: trade in services has risen dramatically and the use of technology is changing how countries trade with each other (photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters /Newscom).
Recent news on global trade has tended to focus on protectionist measures and diplomatic tensions. These challenges have raised concerns over growth and jobs across the world. […]
Have Data—Will Travel
By iMFdirect
Author and innovation guru, Alec Ross says that technology is shaping the industries of the future.
“Ninety percent of the world’s data has been produced in the last two years. In fact, if you take the sum of all the information produced by human kind—from paintings on cave walls—to the year 2003, the sum of that data we now produce every two days.” […]