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India was one of the first countries to emerge from the global crisis (photo: Borchi/Corbis)

India Rebounds, Needs to Return to Reform Agenda

February 05, 2010

India’s economy is rebounding strongly, ahead of most countries in the world, with growth approaching pre-crisis levels, but policy trade-offs are also coming to a head and the IMF sees conditions as ripe for a return to fiscal consolidation. click for more

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IMF Activates New Package to Support World's Poorest

January 11, 2010
In the biggest revamp of its support for low-income countries in two decades, the IMF activates a new package of lending facilities to the world's poorest nations. The measures boost lending resources, raise borrowing limits, eliminate interest costs for two years, and offer more flexible terms.

Despite Crisis, Poor Countries Try to Maintain Social Spending

January 08, 2010
As part of a series of measures taken to support countries during the global crisis, the IMF is placing new emphasis on preserving social spending in countries that borrow money from it.

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IMF Research

Commodity Prices Buoyant in Year of Crisis, Recovery

December 30, 2009
Commodity prices were surprisingly buoyant in 2009, and are expected to increase further in 2010 as world activity expands after the global crisis. Rising demand will eventually require extra capacity in many commodity sectors, with some need to tap higher-cost sources.

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IMF Survey Interview

IMF Studies How to Pay for Financial Sector Rescues

January 11, 2010
Last September, leaders of the Group of Twenty (G-20) industrial and emerging market countries, meeting in Pittsburgh, asked the IMF to prepare a “range of options” for “how the financial sector could make a fair and substantial contribution toward paying for any burdens associated with government interventions” to counteract financial sector crises.

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What the Numbers Show

Did Foreign Reserves Help Weather the Crisis?

October 08, 2009
Did the large accumulation of international reserves in many emerging economies mitigate the impact of the financial crisis? While country authorities believe reserves have helped, hard econometric evidence that they have seems hard to come by.

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Since 1995, global capital flows have tripled to $6.4 trillion, reaching about 14.5 percent of world GDP, after 15 years of staying within a relatively narrow range of 2-6 percent. Slideshow.click for more

In the News

IMF Launches Consultative Process on Financial Sector Tax

January 11, 2010
The International Monetary Fund is launching a consultative process as it begins to examine policy options for how governments can recover public money that was used to support banks and other financial institutions during the current crisis. Some form of financial sector tax is one of the options under examination.

IMF Wins Environmental Award as Nations Debate Climate Change

December 11, 2009
The IMF was awarded one of the world’s highest environmental designations for its headquarters buildings in Washington, D.C., just as policymakers from around the world convened in Copenhagen for a United Nations conference on climate change.

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Countries & Regions

IMF Shocks Loan, Policy Changes Help Kenya's Recovery

January 08, 2010
Less than a year after drawing on an emergency IMF loan, Kenya is showing signs of economic recovery, the IMF says in its regular assessment of the country’s economy. Kenya’s loan drawdown allowed the country to close financing gaps that opened up during 2008.

All About Goals as Africa Shows Signs of Recovery

January 07, 2010
A successful soccer World Cup in South Africa later this year will be one of several goals in the sights of African countries. After being battered by world events last year, sub-Saharan Africa will be aiming at speedy economic recovery in 2010.

Multi-Speed Recovery Seen for Europe

December 28, 2009
As 2009 draws to a close, IMF European Department Director Marek Belka says that what is striking about Europe is how differently countries fared during the global crisis. These different points of departure will also make for a multi-speed recovery, Belka argues.

Democratic Republic of the Congo Gets $551 Million IMF Loan

December 11, 2009
The IMF approves a $551 million loan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to support the central African country’s poverty reduction and growth policies and its program of structural reforms. The IMF also provides the country with $73 million in debt relief.

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