IMFBlog2020-03-04T11:06:46-05:00February 26, 2020|
By David Lipton
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
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. […]
IMFBlog2020-02-19T15:04:00-05:00February 18, 2020|
By Stefania Fabrizio, Daniel Gurara and Lisa Kolovich
Making sure that opportunities to enter the workforce are fair and rewarding for women benefits everyone. Yet, the average female workforce participation rate across countries is still 20 percentage points lower than the male rate, largely because gender gaps in wages and access to opportunities, such as education, stubbornly persist. […]
IMFBlog2020-02-10T08:30:06-05:00February 10, 2020|
By Carlos Mulas-Granados, Richard Varghese and Vizhdan Boranova
Tired of reading articles about how a robot will take your job? We’ve all heard horror stories that foresee the devastating consequences that automation will have on people’s working lives—yet much less attention has been devoted to what workers actually think. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-13T12:56:13-04:00January 7, 2020|
عربي, Español, 中文, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
Over the past decade, inequality has become one of the most complex and vexing challenges in the global economy.
Inequality of opportunity. Inequality across generations. Inequality between women and men. And, of course, inequality of income and wealth . They are all present in our societies and—unfortunately— in many countries they are […]
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. […]
IMFBlog2019-11-07T16:11:15-05:00November 6, 2019|
By William Gbohoui, Raphael Lam, and Victor Lledo
Social and economic inequality between and within regions in countries is rising in many advanced economies and is now at the forefront of the policy debate because of perceptions that some people and places have been left behind. […]
IMFBlog2019-09-05T09:17:56-04:00September 5, 2019|
IMFBlog2019-08-14T07:30:12-04:00August 14, 2019|
By IMFBlog
Pensions, education, healthcare, better infrastructure, technology, and climate change: fiscal policymakers have their work cut out for them on many fronts. […]
IMFBlog2019-06-24T07:48:34-04:00June 24, 2019|
By Vivian Malta and Monique Newiak
Our chart of the week, drawn from the IMF’s 2019 economic health check for Nigeria, highlights substantial inequality in access to education between girls and boys, and between rich and poor. […]
IMFBlog2019-05-15T13:42:48-04:00May 15, 2019|
