Last Updated: October 13, 2008
Globalization
"Deleveraging in the financial sector is likely to weigh on the pace of credit and economic growth for a considerable period" (photo: Mario Tama/Getty)
Opinion
The Crisis is not the End of the Market Economy
September 24, 2008
"I believe that the market economy will emerge strengthened from this crisis."
An interview with IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 
Spotlight
World Economic Outlook: Financial Stress, Downturns, and Recoveries
Globalization of Labor
Long-Distance Learning Makes the World a Classroom
August 21, 2008
The IMF's distance learning program links students and instructors anywhere in the world. 
IMF Study Tracks Which Firms Go Global
Research and Publications
Globalization Drives Strategic Product Switching
October 2008
Previous studies on industrial countries have shown that product switching has been a defensive strategy against low-cost imports. In contrast, our results suggest that Estonian firms have switched products as an offensive strategy to take advantage of the export opportunities created by trade liberalization. 


