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Authors Ayhan Kose and Marco Terrones explore the last four global recessions through text, charts, and multimedia interviews and features (photo: IMF)

When National Cycles Coincide: Tracking Global Recessions and Recoveries

February 09, 2016

The world has experienced four global recessions since 1960. In a new multimedia book, two economists track what drives the global economy into and out of a recession.click for more

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Akerlof Says Free Markets May Manipulate Our Thinking

November 25, 2015
At a recent IMF forum, George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, discussed his new book, Phishing for Phools, which is based on the idea that free market forces can produce systemic harm by exploiting human weaknesses.click for more

Financial Sector Reform—an Investment in Asia’s Future

September 03, 2015
Asia’s financial systems are big, resilient, and growing rapidly, but financing another generation of rapid growth will require further innovation, says the IMF Managing Director.click for more

Authors Debate Impact of Bretton Woods on IMF, Past and Future

May 15, 2013
Expert panelists engaged in animated debate over Bretton Woods architects Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes and offered insights on how the IMF came about and how that history affects the global economy, in a book discussion sponsored by F&D.click for more

Managing Public Finances Is Vital to Economic Prosperity

April 16, 2013
Across the world many countries are now grappling with restoring sound and sustainable public finances: the way governments manage their budgets today will have profound economic effects in the years ahead.click for more

Don’t Demonize Finance After Crisis, Says Shiller

May 01, 2012
Despite the widespread repercussion from the global financial crisis, finance should be embraced rather than demonized, says economist Robert Shiller. In a new book, he argues that access to finance should be enlarged. click for more

Top Economists Ponder Post-Crisis Realities

March 30, 2012
The global economic crisis and the weak recovery that has followed raise fundamental questions concerning macroeconomics and economic policy, according to a new book by IMF Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard and other leading economists. click for more

IMF Study Examines Changing Patterns in Global Gas Markets

February 01, 2012
Recent developments in regional gas markets across the world point to important structural changes. But patterns in Europe and the United States are diverging, a new IMF study finds. click for more

New IMF Study Offers Options for Bolstering Gulf Economies

October 17, 2011
Strong growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries has not delivered all the expected results, particularly with respect to generating jobs for the region's nationals and reducing dependence on oil and gas, the IMF says. click for more

More Domestic Demand Could Help Rebalance Asian Economies

March 22, 2011
Exports have played an important role in Asia’s economic success to date, but the region now needs to develop a second engine of growth by rebalancing its economy to encourage greater domestic demand, according to IMF economists in a new book.click for more

Prescient Pundits Deconstruct Forces, Actors Shaping Crisis

September 08, 2010
The global financial crisis has been analyzed, scrutinized, and deconstructed from almost every angle since it erupted in 2007. But two books published in 2010 by eminent authors Raghuram Rajan and Sebastian Mallaby show that there are still fresh areas to explore. click for more

Harnessing the Power of Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Inequality

September 25, 2015
The appropriate design of fiscal policies can mitigate income inequality, without hurting growth, or even while increasing it, according to a recently published IMF book, Inequality and Fiscal Policy.click for more

Good Administration of Oil and Mining Revenues is Vital

August 06, 2014
Effective administration of public revenues derived from the petroleum and mining industries gets a boost with the release of a new IMF handbook. Policymakers and government officials in charge of administering oil, gas and mining revenues now have practical guidelines at their disposal.click for more

Eastern Caribbean Currency Union Faces Similar Challenges to Euro Area

May 09, 2013
As the 2008 global crisis deepened, the euro area, the world’s largest and most well-known regional currency union, faced a number of challenges. In many respects, the smaller Eastern Caribbean Economic and Currency Union (ECCU) is an interesting microcosm of the euro area’s problems and its difficulties.click for more

Country's Wealth Depends on Citizens' Share of National Pie

June 01, 2012
Why are some countries rich and others poor? James Robinson, coauthor of the newly published “Why Nations Fail”, argues that the wealth of a country is most closely tied to how far the average person is able to share in its overall economic growth.click for more

IMF Weighs in on Health Care Reform

April 25, 2012
Economies the world over will be hit with rising health care costs at a time when many of them need to undertake large fiscal adjustments to reduce deficits and debt. click for more

New Book Weighs IMF Response to a Crisis-Filled Decade

March 21, 2012
The 1990s was a tumultuous period that witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union, the transition of former Eastern bloc countries to market economies, and a series of crippling financial crises—all of which posed new challenges for the IMF and transformed its role. click for more

Dollar's History Points to Future of Global Monetary System

October 21, 2011
Long-term strengthening of the international monetary system will require concerted efforts from policymakers in advanced and emerging economies alike, a Washington seminar heard. The event discussed a new book on the rise of the dollar in the 20th century by Berkeley economics professor Barry Eichengreen.click for more

Supporting Aging Populations as Demographics Shift

June 10, 2011
Demographic changes are threatening the ability of many countries to provide a decent standard of living for the old without imposing a crushing burden on the young, says the IMF’s Finance & Development magazine in a cover story. The world’s population is projected to rise to 9 billion by 2050.click for more

Five Fundamental Changes Are Boosting Growth in Africa

November 16, 2010
Seventeen emerging African countries are putting behind them the conflict, stagnation, and dictatorships of the past, according to a new book by Steve Radelet. Instead of treating the region as a monolith, the former Center for Global Development senior fellow stressed the differences between Africa’s emerging countries.click for more

Reconstructing the World Economy

July 13, 2010
As the world emerges from the worst crisis in decades, a new IMF book presents a number of proposals for improving the stability of the global economy. click for more

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