IMFBlog2021-05-26T11:09:45-04:00May 21, 2021|
By Kristalina Georgieva, Gita Gopinath, and Ruchir Agarwal
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Many countries have stepped up in the global fight against the pandemic, as have institutions such as the World Health Organization, the World Bank, Gavi (the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization), the African Union, and others. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-07T09:08:44-04:00April 16, 2021|
By Vitor Gaspar, Michael Keen, Alexander Klemm, and Paolo Mauro
The economic costs of the pandemic have fallen most heavily on those least able to bear them. Governments have taken steps to support people and firms through wage subsidies, unemployment benefits, and other fiscal measures. […]
IMFBlog2020-10-13T17:20:39-04:00October 13, 2020|
IMFBlog2020-10-09T09:17:34-04:00October 8, 2020|
By Francesco Grigoli and Damiano Sandri
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One enduring lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that any lasting economic recovery will depend on resolving the health crisis. […]
IMFBlog2020-05-14T09:00:07-04:00May 14, 2020|
By Diego Cerdeiro, Andras Komaromi, Yang Liu, and Mamoon Saeed
With the current fast-changing developments, policy makers need to know what is happening to the economy in real time, but they often must settle for data telling them what happened many weeks ago. […]
IMFBlog2020-05-07T09:38:49-04:00May 6, 2020|
Vitor Gaspar, W. Raphael Lam, and Mehdi Raissi
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Fiscal policies have provided large emergency lifelines to people and firms during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are also invaluable to increase a country’s readiness to respond to a crisis and to help with the recovery and beyond. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-13T12:56:12-04:00January 20, 2020|
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In the October World Economic Outlook, we described the global economy as in a synchronized slowdown, with escalating downside risks that could further derail growth. Since then, some risks have partially receded with the announcement of a US-China Phase I trade deal and lower likelihood of a no-deal Brexit. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-14T13:32:16-04:00March 21, 2018|
By Valerie Cerra and Sweta C. Saxena
March 21, 2018
Version in 日本語 (Japanese), Português (Portuguese)
New study finds that all types of recessions lead to permanent losses in output and welfare (photo: Peshkov/iStock by GettyImages).
Economic recessions are typically described as short-term periods of negative economic growth. According to the traditional business cycle view, output moves up and down around its long-term upward trend and after a recession, it […]
IMFBlog2019-03-15T11:48:55-04:00January 25, 2018|
January 25, 2018
Versions in Español (Spanish) and Português (Portuguese)
Latin America’s economic recovery is expected to benefit from higher commodity prices (photo: iStock by Getty Images)
Recent trends in the world economy and financial markets are good news for Latin America. Global growth and trade are on an upswing, and we expect the momentum to continue in 2018. Stronger commodity prices have […]
IMFBlog2019-03-25T15:48:26-04:00May 22, 2017|
By IMFBlog
May 22, 2017
Version in Русский (Russian)
Most of the countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe will see their economies humming away at a strong growth rate in 2017. A measure of their success at fully utilizing their economic machine is the output gap—the difference between what the economy is currently producing, and what it can produce when it is at full capacity.
Our Chart of the Week from a recently published report on the Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European region […]
