IMFBlog2020-09-09T11:47:33-04:00June 3, 2020|
Martin Mühleisen, Vladimir Klyuev, Sarah Sanya
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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. […]
IMFBlog2020-04-02T16:05:45-04:00April 1, 2020|
This blog is part of a special series on the response to the coronavirus.
By Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, Paolo Mauro, Antonio Spilimbergo, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis like no other. It feels like a war, and in many ways it is. People are dying. Medical professionals are on the front lines. Those in essential services, food distribution, delivery, and public utilities work overtime to support the effort. […]
IMFBlog2020-04-01T14:43:16-04:00March 31, 2020|
This blog is part of a special series on the response to the coronavirus.
By Tobias Adrian and Aditya Narain
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Today we face economic upheaval potentially more severe than we witnessed during the global financial crisis. The coronavirus pandemic is a different kind of shock. Never before have modern economies shut down at the drop of a hat. […]
IMFBlog2020-03-23T10:02:58-04:00January 16, 2019|
By IMFBlog
In 2019, the IMF will complete 14 assessments under the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). Eight of this year’s assessments are mandatory: Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Italy, Poland, Singapore, and Switzerland. The other six are voluntary: Algeria, Bahamas, Kuwait, FYR Macedonia, Malta, and Thailand. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-13T10:49:35-04:00December 14, 2018|
By Atilla Arda, Daniel Hardy, and Maike B. Luedersen
December 14, 2018
View of skyscrapers in the banking district in Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Progress has been made, but more needs to be done to strengthen the euro area’s banking union (photo: imageBROKER/Stefan Ziese/Newscom)
Dealing with problem banks in a prompt, efficient, and even-handed manner is essential for the European banking union. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-13T10:57:28-04:00December 4, 2018|
By Jiaqian Chen
December 4, 2018
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A UK border agency worker holds a passport: As a member of the European Union, free labor mobility has enabled the UK to hire talent from across the EU (photo: Mac Gregor/Reuters/Newscom)
The United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union in March 2019. Our […]
IMFBlog2019-03-13T12:23:50-04:00October 29, 2018|
By Tobias Adrian, Dirk Jan Grolleman, and Anastasiia Morozova
October 29, 2018
Countries have improved banking sector regulation considerably in the past decade, but areas of weakness remain (Steve Gottlieb/Newscom)
The many 10th anniversary retrospectives of the global financial crisis mostly agree: the financial system is safer today than it was when US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-13T12:46:35-04:00October 9, 2018|
