IMFBlog2021-06-10T09:25:58-04:00June 9, 2021|
By Aqib Aslam and Maria Coelho
On June 5, 2021, Finance Ministers from the Group of Seven major industrialized nations committed to a global minimum corporate tax rate on multinationals of at least 15 percent. While there are a number of details yet to be hammered out in broader global discussions, this historic agreement heralds an important step forward on the road to international corporate tax reform. […]
IMFBlog2021-06-01T10:57:30-04:00June 1, 2021|
By Jorge Mondragon and Marina M. Tavares
Lower-skilled and young workers were among the hardest hit from the pandemic, suffering job losses in record numbers last year. Some of those jobs may never reappear as economies readjust to a post-pandemic world. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-26T12:17:50-04:00May 24, 2021|
By Fabian Bornhorst and Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Русский
The International Monetary Fund is responding to the policy challenges of a fast-changing global economy still reeling from the COVID-19 crisis: it is modernizing the way it provides its regular policy advice to member countries—a process known as surveillance. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-26T11:09:45-04:00May 21, 2021|
By Kristalina Georgieva, Gita Gopinath, and Ruchir Agarwal
عربي, 中文, Български, Español, Français, 日本語, Русский
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. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-27T09:48:01-04:00May 20, 2021|
By Chady El Khoury, Jiro Honda, Johan Mathisen, and Etienne Yehoue
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
Governments around the world are playing a crucial role in providing lifelines to people and firms to help combat the pandemic and its economic fallout. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-14T13:01:37-04:00May 12, 2021|
By Abebe Aemro Selassie and Andrew Tiffin
中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
Imagine you’re a policymaker in sub-Saharan Africa. You’ve been charged with lifting your country out of the worst health crisis in living memory, and nobody around you knows when it will end—the second wave that gripped the region earlier in the year has eased, but many countries are nonetheless bracing for further waves as winter approaches. […]
IMFBlog2021-06-03T11:36:51-04:00April 29, 2021|
IMFBlog2021-05-05T10:34:40-04:00April 22, 2021|
By Tobias Adrian, Rohit Goel, Sheheryar Malik, Fabio Natalucci
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
The rise in long-term US interest rates has become a focus of global macro-financial concerns. The nominal yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury has increased about 70 basis points since the beginning of the year. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-07T09:08:15-04:00April 19, 2021|
By Tahsin Saadi Sedik and Jiae Yoo
From car manufacture to self-service checkouts, we all see how automation can transform the world of work—with lower costs and higher productivity on one hand, and more precarious employment for people on the other. […]
IMFBlog2021-04-14T09:07:06-04:00April 13, 2021|
In some Asia-Pacific countries, the unpleasant memory of the pandemic is receding; elsewhere, second or third waves of infections are raging. […]
