Chart of the Week: Top 5 Charts

IMF Blog, July 25, 2018

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Authors: The Editors
Published: July 25, 2018

Overview

Title: Chart of the Week: Top 5 Charts
Author line: The Editors
Date: July 25, 2018
Lead caption: People wait while their electric cars charge, in Xiamen, China (photo: Zhang Guojun/Newscom)
Summary: Editors select five favorite charts from the Chart of the Week series covering topics in transportation, savings behavior, tourism, wealth and inequality, and millennial housing.

Selected charts (editors' picks)

Chart of the Week: Sharing the Wealth: Inequality and Who Owns What
Chart of the Week: Electric Takeover in Transportation
Chart of the Week: China’s Thrift, and What to Do About It
Chart of the Week: Iceland’s Tourism Eruption
Chart of the Week: House of Cards (millennial home ownership)

Context and purpose

This page curates highlights from the IMF’s Chart of the Week series, presenting topical visual analyses chosen by the editors.
The chosen charts emphasize cross-cutting policy-relevant themes: inequality and wealth distribution; technological change in transportation (electric vehicles); national saving behavior and policy implications (China’s thrift); tourism dynamics and impacts (Iceland); and housing trends affecting millennials.

About the blog

IMFBlog is a forum for the views of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and officials on pressing economic and policy issues of the day.
The IMF, based in Washington D.C., is an organization of 191 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation and financial stability around the world.
Note on views: The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF and its Executive Board.

Source: Chart of the Week: Top 5 Charts (July 25, 2018)

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