financial crisis management

Countries in the IMF Financial Spotlight in 2018

IMFBlog2020-03-23T10:06:04-04:00January 31, 2018|

January 31, 2018

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Financial sector assessments are showing that countries and financial systems are adapting better methods to monitor financial vulnerabilities (photo: Ingram Publishing/Newscom).

The IMF in 2018 will complete ten assessments of countries’ financial systems, to identify risks and propose policies to strengthen their financial stability. Three of this year’s reviews will be for countries with Systemically Important Financial Systems : Belgium, Brazil and Poland. In addition, IMF experts will assess the euro area’s financial stability. Other financial stability assessments will cover Armenia, Jamaica, Namibia, Peru, Romania, and Tanzania.

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Aging Japan Puts a Strain on the Financial System

IMFBlog2019-03-25T10:33:35-04:00August 10, 2017|

By Gaston Gelos and Sònia Muñoz

August 10, 2017

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Elderly shoppers in Tokyo’s Sugamo district: As Japan’s population ages, demand for financial services shifts (photo: Issei Kato/Reuters/Newscom).

Japan’s population is shrinking and getting older, posing challenges to the nation’s financial system. How Japan copes could guide other advanced economies in Asia and Europe that are grappling with the same trends but are at an earlier phase of similar demographic developments.

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