IMFBlog2021-05-05T10:34:40-04:00April 22, 2021|
By Tobias Adrian, Rohit Goel, Sheheryar Malik, Fabio Natalucci
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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. […]
IMFBlog2021-04-07T09:04:37-04:00April 6, 2021|
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After enduring a tumultuous 2020, the global economy is finally emerging from the worst phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit with prospects diverging starkly across regions and countries—and only after a “lost year” spent in suspended animation. […]
IMFBlog2021-04-06T13:02:13-04:00April 6, 2021|
IMFBlog2021-05-13T12:50:14-04:00March 10, 2021|
By Ian Parry
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Over the next decade, global greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut by 25– 50 percent to be on track for meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of containing global warming to 1.5–2°C.The United States intends to do its part. Its climate plan pledges US carbon neutrality by 2050, with a 2030 emissions target to be announced shortly.
IMFBlog2021-02-21T17:06:20-05:00February 19, 2021|
After ending last year with unexpectedly strong vaccine success and hope that the pandemic and economic distress it caused would recede, we woke up to the reality of new virus variants and the unpredictable, winding road that it can lead the world down. […]
IMFBlog2021-01-19T15:49:34-05:00January 19, 2021|
By Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom, and Davide Furceri
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Global uncertainty reached unprecedented levels at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and remains elevated. The World Uncertainty Index—a quarterly measure of global economic and policy uncertainty covering 143 countries—shows that although uncertainty has come down by about 60 percent from the peak observed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020, it remains about 50 percent above its historical average during the 1996–2010 period.
Uncertainty in systemic economies matters for uncertainty […]
IMFBlog2020-12-09T16:45:33-05:00December 8, 2020|
By Christian Bogmans and Claire Mengyi Li
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As the world economy emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the consumption of coal is expected to recover from its sharp decline during the pandemic. […]
IMFBlog2020-12-03T12:45:50-05:00December 2, 2020|
By Cristian Alonso, Siddharth Kothari, and Sidra Rehman
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New technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, big data, and networks are expected to revolutionize production processes, but they could also have a major impact on developing economies. […]
IMFBlog2020-10-30T15:49:14-04:00October 29, 2020|
By Gabriela Cugat and Futoshi Narita
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Emerging markets and developing economies grew consistently in the two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, allowing for much-needed gains in poverty reduction and life expectancy. The crisis now puts much of that progress at risk while further widening the gap between rich and poor.
Despite the pre-pandemic gains in poverty reduction and lifespans, many of these countries have struggled to reduce income inequality. At the same time, they saw persistently high shares of inactive youth (i.e., those not […]
IMFBlog2020-08-14T10:30:25-04:00August 4, 2020|
By Martin Kaufman and Daniel Leigh
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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. […]
