IMFBlog2021-11-01T11:21:47-04:00July 13, 2021|
By Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, Samuel Pienknagura, and Luca Ricci
Protests driven by the pandemic’s economic fallout are on the rise, with potentially long-lasting economic consequences.
Protests can be catalysts for political reform and social change. But what impact do they have on the economy? […]
IMFBlog2021-04-16T13:35:53-04:00April 15, 2021|
By Alejandro Werner, Takuji Komatsuzaki, and Carlo Pizzinelli
Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean recovered briskly in the second half of 2020, yet still more slowly than the global economy and other emerging markets. […]
IMFBlog2020-10-23T12:48:52-04:00October 22, 2020|
By Samuel Pienknagura, Jorge Roldós, and Alejandro Werner
COVID-19 has hit Latin America and the Caribbean harder than other parts of the world, both in human and economic terms. […]
IMFBlog2020-07-16T10:34:20-04:00June 26, 2020|
Latin America and the Caribbean have become the new COVID-19 global epicenter. The human cost has been tragic, with over 100,000 lives lost. The economic toll has also been steep. […]
IMFBlog2021-08-05T11:04:17-04:00April 16, 2020|
As of today, about 3,000 people have died from the COVID-19 virus in Latin America and the Caribbean. While the pandemic continues to spread across the region, countries are facing the worst economic recession since countries started producing national accounts statistics in the 1950s. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-13T12:56:12-04:00January 29, 2020|
Economic activity in Latin America and the Caribbean stagnated in 2019, continuing with the weak growth momentum of the previous five years and adding more urgency and new challenges to reignite growth. Indeed, real GDP per capita in the region has declined by 0.6 percent per year on average during 2014–2019—a sharp contrast from the commodity boom’s average increase of two percent per year during 2000–2013. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-13T12:56:12-04:00January 20, 2020|
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In the October World Economic Outlook, we described the global economy as in a synchronized slowdown, with escalating downside risks that could further derail growth. Since then, some risks have partially receded with the announcement of a US-China Phase I trade deal and lower likelihood of a no-deal Brexit. […]
IMFBlog2019-12-23T12:36:10-05:00December 18, 2019|
IMFBlog2019-11-07T08:34:02-05:00November 7, 2019|
By Shekhar Aiyar and Christian Ebeke
There are clashing views on the relationship between income inequality and growth. […]
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. […]
