IMFBlog2021-05-13T12:50:15-04:00March 9, 2021|
By Kazuko Shirono, Esha Chhabra, and Yingjie Fan
The economic downturn caused by the pandemic has taken a painful toll on small businesses. Scores of retail businesses have permanently closed in cities around the world since the Great Lockdown in the spring of 2020. […]
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. […]
IMFBlog2020-06-16T12:26:47-04:00June 11, 2020|
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. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-13T13:57:56-04:00December 12, 2019|
By Tobias Adrian and Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) is a complex and multidisciplinary topic requiring active analysis and debate. […]
IMFBlog2019-11-27T13:40:16-05:00November 25, 2019|
By Tobias Adrian and Ashraf Khan
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. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-13T14:29:22-04:00September 14, 2018|
By IMFBlog
September 14, 2018
Skype headquarters, Tallinn, Estonia: Skype was created in Estonia in 2003 (ebolyukh/iStock by Getty Images)
Estonians jokingly refer to themselves as e-Estonians, says Siim Sikkut, Estonia’s Chief Information Officer. But if ever a nickname were spot on, this might be it. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-26T16:10:50-04:00September 1, 2016|
Versions in: عربي (Arabic), 中文 (Chinese), Français (French), 日本語 (Japanese), Русский (Russian), and Español (Spanish)
Low growth, high inequality, and slow progress on structural reforms are among the key issues that G20 leaders will discuss at their meeting in Hangzhou, China, this weekend. This meeting comes at an important moment for the global economy. The political pendulum threatens to swing against economic openness, and without forceful policy actions, the world could suffer from disappointing growth for a long time. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-27T11:28:19-04:00March 7, 2016|
(Versions in عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Русский, Deutsch, and Italiano)
International Women’s Day—March 8—is one of my favorite days. It is a time to celebrate the impressive progress women at all levels of the career ladder have made in recent decades. More women in the labor force, and in more senior positions is good news for women, for their companies, and for their countries’ economies.
A new IMF staff study finds that in Europe, national policies, even taking account of personal preferences, can boost women’s participation in the workforce and enhance their chances for advancement.
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