IMFBlog2021-05-13T12:50:16-04:00February 23, 2021|
by Davide Furceri, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Anthony C.K. Tan
Asian economies are performing better than expected. In the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook Update, we upgraded our growth estimate for 2020 by 0.7 percentage point from our previous forecast in October, to a contraction of 1.5 percent—in regional terms, a better outcome than other parts of the world. […]
IMFBlog2021-01-27T17:52:53-05:00January 27, 2021|
By Tobias Adrian and Fabio Natalucci
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
“The vaccines are here!”—the cry heard and welcomed the world over—has boosted hopes of a global economic recovery in 2021. […]
IMFBlog2020-09-09T11:47:33-04:00June 3, 2020|
Martin Mühleisen, Vladimir Klyuev, Sarah Sanya
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
The coronavirus crisis is a crisis like no other, and for emerging market and developing economies (EMDE), it has triggered a policy response like no other, both in scope and magnitude. […]
IMFBlog2019-07-03T12:44:31-04:00May 22, 2019|
By Gerry Rice and Olga Stankova
عربي, 中文, Español, 日本語, Русский
When it comes to forging economic policy, communicating with the public is no longer an afterthought. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-14T16:02:37-04:00January 8, 2018|
By Romain Duval, Giuseppe Nicoletti, and Fabrizio Zampolli
January 8, 2018
Auto worker in Mexico: weak productivity has been a problem even before the global financial crisis (photo: Henry Romero/Newscom).
Almost ten years after the onset of the global financial crisis productivity growth remains anaemic in advanced economies despite very easy monetary conditions, casting doubts on the sustainability of the cyclical recovery. The productivity slowdown started well before the crisis, which then amplified the problem. To what extent can this slowdown be ascribed to policies and financial factors, including loose monetary policy prior to 2008, corporate and bank balance sheet vulnerabilities, and the exceptional monetary and financial policy responses to the crisis? […]
