IMFBlog2020-08-14T10:30:25-04:00August 4, 2020|
By Martin Kaufman and Daniel Leigh
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
The world entered the COVID-19 pandemic with persistent, pre-existing external imbalances. The crisis has caused a sharp reduction in trade and significant movements in exchange rates but limited reduction in global current account deficits and surpluses. […]
IMFBlog2020-04-27T10:59:36-04:00April 20, 2020|
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
I have been saying for a while that this is a “crisis like no other.” It is:
More complex, with interlinked shocks to our health and our economies that have brought our way of life to an almost complete stop;
More uncertain, as we are learning only gradually how to treat the novel virus, make containment most effective, and restart our economies; and
Truly global. Pandemics don’t respect borders, neither do the economic shocks they cause.
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IMFBlog2019-03-13T11:57:50-04:00November 16, 2018|
By Era Dabla-Norris and Kalpana Kochhar
November 16, 2018
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
Women are currently underrepresented in fields experiencing job growth, such as engineering and information and communication technology (photo: Vgajic/iStock by Getty Images)
The way we work is changing at an unprecedented rate. Digitalization, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are eliminating many jobs involving low and middle-skill routine tasks through automation. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-13T15:25:22-04:00August 10, 2018|
By Jiaqian Chen, Christian Ebeke, Li Lin, Haonan Qu, and Jesse Siminitz
August 10, 2018
Versions in Español, Français, Português
A container ship entering the Port of Marseille, France: The UK is among the European Union’s largest trading partners, accounting for about 13 percent of its trade in goods and services (photo: Gerard Bottino/Newscom)
When the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, higher barriers to trade, capital flows, and labor mobility will affect output and jobs not only in the UK but also in the remaining 27 EU member states. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-13T15:56:44-04:00July 25, 2018|
IMFBlog2019-03-14T10:06:20-04:00June 27, 2018|
By Vikram Haksar, Marialuz Moreno-Badia, Catherine Pattillo and Murtaza Syed
June 27, 2018
Versions in عربي, 中文, Baˈhasa indoneˈsia, 日本語, Português
Countries must assess the amount of room in their budgets for increasing spending or cutting taxes (photo: Martin Barraud/iStock by Getty Images)
How much leeway national policymakers have for increasing spending or cutting taxes has been hard to assess. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-15T10:39:51-04:00February 13, 2018|
By James Brumby and Michael Keen
February 13, 2018
Versions in عربي (Arabic), 中文 (Chinese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), 日本語 (Japanese), Русский (Russian)
New Delhi, India: there are now very few effective explicit wealth taxes in either developing or advanced economies (photo: Jens Kalaene/Corbis).
High and rising income inequality is a serious concern in many countries, as highlighted in the IMF’s recent Fiscal Monitor. Wealth, however, is distributed even more unequally than income, as in the picture below. […]
