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New Methods Aim to Identify Systemic Financial Risks

April 21, 2009
The global crisis has highlighted that further progress is needed to identify and address systemic risks—those that threaten the financial system rather than individual financial institutions or markets. But first those risks must be identified and measured, new IMF research says.

IMF: Prevent Institutions Becoming Too Connected to Fail

April 21, 2009
The current financial crisis highlights the problem of an institution that is too connected to be allowed to fail because it is linked to so many other financial institutions. Its demise could thus trigger catastrophic financial sector failures, new IMF research warns.

Further Action Needed to Reinforce Signs of Market Recovery: IMF

April 21, 2009
An unprecedented policy response to the global economic crisis is gradually beginning to restore market confidence, the IMF says. But in its semiannual Global Financial Stability Report the IMF warns that the challenges to restoring financial stability remain significant.

Global Leaders to Assess Response to World Recession

April 20, 2009
Finance ministers and central bank governors from around the world gather in Washington April 24-26 to assess the global response to the world financial crisis and attempts to recover from the deepest recession since the 1930s.

IMF Approves $47 Billion Credit Line for Mexico

April 17, 2009
The IMF approves a credit line for Mexico of $47 billion in the first use of a new instrument designed to bolster strong performing economies against fallout from the current global economic crisis.

Rapid Spread of Crisis Reflects Close Global Economic Ties

April 16, 2009
Emerging economies are now so closely integrated with advanced economies that financial stress transmits rapidly and forcefully, with financial linkages a key channel of transmission, according to new IMF research.

Global Recession to Be Long, Deep with Slow Recovery

April 16, 2009
Two features of the current recession—its association with deep financial crisis and its highly synchronized nature—suggest that it is likely to be unusually severe and followed by a slow recovery, according to new IMF research. However, macroeconomic policies can cushion the blows to incomes.

More Needed to Revive Global Economy, Says IMF

April 16, 2009
More still needs to be done to revive the global economy and pull it out of recession, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn says. In a Washington speech he calls for improvements in the national and international financial architecture in several key areas.

Inflexible Budget Curbs Options as Estonia Faces Recession

April 15, 2009
Estonia is experiencing a severe economic downturn brought on by mounting internal and external imbalances, and worsened by the global slowdown. The task for policymakers now is to reestablish the basis for balanced economic growth, external sustainability, and adoption of the euro.

Poland Seeks $20.5 Billion Credit Line From IMF

April 14, 2009
Poland becomes the second country to seek access to a new IMF credit line for strongly performing economies to buttress them against the global economic crisis. Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the country is interested in a one-year precautionary arrangement under the IMF’s Flexible Credit Line for $20.5 billion.

Fresh Approach Needed in Banking System

April 14, 2009
Fresh, innovative thinking is needed to solve the deeply rooted problems in the banking sector. The IMF should spearhead a new compact between the world of finance and the real economy, writes Robert Regard.

Overhauling Europe's Financial System

April 14, 2009
Although the rationale for creating a single financial market in the European Union remains compelling, there is a real risk that the global financial crisis will derail the latest attempts to reach this goal.

New Rules of Engagement for IMF Loans

April 13, 2009
As part of a wide-ranging reform of lending practices to help improve its ability to combat the current crisis, the IMF has redefined its engagement with countries on issues related to structural reform of the economy, making adjustments that will help remove the perceived stigma in seeking IMF financial assistance.

G-20 Reaffirms IMF's Central Role in Combating Crisis

April 03, 2009
The G-20 reaffirms the IMF’s central role in the international financial system, agreeing to triple the Fund’s lending capacity to $750 billion and enabling it to inject extra liquidity into the world economy.

Reserves Prove Their Usefulness as Global Economic Crisis Bites

April 03, 2009
After years of large-scale global accumulation of foreign exchange reserves, and even talk of excessive reserves, official reserves are now being drawn upon in many countries and are proving their usefulness, a conference of sovereign asset and wealth fund managers hears.

Africa Needs Trade and Investment, Not More Aid

April 02, 2009
Global fiscal stimulus and action to unblock the credit markets in the north will likely do more for Africa than another round of aid-financed government consumption, writes Robert Liebenthal from Zambia.

G-20 Backs Big Boost to IMF's Financing

April 02, 2009
The Group of Twenty industrialized and emerging market economies back a big boost to the IMF’s financing capacity as part of measures to counter the global economic crisis, and call for further revisions in country representation in the 185-member institution.

Mexico Seeks $47 Billion Credit Line from IMF

April 01, 2009
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn welcomes Mexico’s interest in a precautionary credit line from the IMF and says he intends to move forward rapidly to seek approval from the Executive Board.

World Faces Crisis Crossroads at G-20 Summit, Says IMF

March 27, 2009
The world is at a crossroads as it faces its greatest economic crisis in 60 years, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn says during a trans-Atlantic video news conference. G-20 leaders who meet in London on April 2 have the opportunity to spur a recovery next year if they take the right action.

Time to Rethink Global Economic Framework?

March 26, 2009
The buildup of debt in the United States and a handful of other countries fueled the growth of the world economy over the past few years, writes Rudolf Witske.

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