IMFBlog2021-05-13T10:23:21-04:00May 13, 2021|
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. […]
IMFBlog2020-11-10T10:00:10-05:00November 10, 2020|
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. […]
IMFBlog2020-05-27T16:41:36-04:00May 26, 2020|
By Louis Marc Ducharme, James Tebrake, and Zaijin Zhan
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
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. […]
IMFBlog2019-09-23T12:31:18-04:00September 23, 2019|
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. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-13T13:53:18-04:00October 3, 2018|
By Rudolfs Bems, Francesca Caselli, Francesco Grigoli, Bertrand Gruss, and Weicheng Lian
October 3, 2018
IMFBlog2019-03-14T10:15:56-04:00June 22, 2018|
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. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-14T11:44:23-04:00May 29, 2018|
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. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-26T11:39:18-04:00March 3, 2017|
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.” […]
IMFBlog2019-03-26T13:35:52-04:00January 11, 2017|
by iMFdirect
New York Times columnist and best-selling author Thomas Friedman says our lives are being transformed in so many realms at once—it’s dizzying.
“We’re in the middle of 3 accelerations; the market, mother nature, and Moore’s law. Moore’s law says the power of microchips will double every 24 months, mother nature is climate change, biodiversity loss and population, and the market is digital globalization.” […]
