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Picking Winners Is Difficult and Costly

Industrial policy could waste resources as capital becomes scarcer

RABAH AREZKI

JEAN-PIERRE LANDAU

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Editor's Letter

Productivity | September 2024

Productivity and Prosperity

Understanding productivity growth more fully is crucial because it plays such an outsize role in economic growth

GITA BHATT

International organization | June 2024

An IMF for Tomorrow

As we mark the IMF’s 80th anniversary, we ask: How can the Fund continue to adapt to the new realities and the changing needs of our 190 members?

GITA BHATT

Economic theory | March 2024

Economics That's More Human

There is a growing consensus that the economics profession must be open to new ideas and frameworks if it hopes to solve the world’s biggest problems

GITA BHATT

Artificial intelligence | December 2023

The AI Awakening

Generative AI has introduced tantalizing new possibilities, yet also genuine and growing concerns

GITA BHATT

Productivity | September 2024

Total Factor Productivity

How can economies do more with less?

ROBERT ZYMEK

Globalization | June 2024

Globalization Today

Updated rules for international trade, coupled with stronger domestic policies, could make globalization more inclusive and sustainable

ADAM JAKUBIK

ELIZABETH VAN HEUVELEN

Inclusive growth | March 2024

What Is Inclusive Growth?

Proponents aim to create societies that are free, equal, and wealthy

RUCHIR AGARWAL

Artificial intelligence | December 2023

Artificial Intelligence’s Promise and Peril

Generative AI is poised to unleash a wave of creativity and productivity but poses important questions for humanity

HERVE TOURPE

Demographic change | September 2024

Demographic Decline

Falling fertility and aging populations pose significant challenges for many economies

ANDREW STANLEY

International organization | June 2024

The Evolving IMF

Over the past 30 years the IMF has adapted to global shocks and evolving member needs

Atish Rex Ghosh

ANDREW STANLEY

Gross domestic product | March 2024

Looking Beyond GDP

The World Happiness Report leads the quest for more holistic measures of well-being

ANDREW STANLEY

Financial safety nets | December 2023

Global Financial Safety Net

In a more shock-prone world, strengthening the financial safety net is more important than ever

ANDREW STANLEY

Demographic change | September 2024

Worry Free Retirement

As life expectancy increases, Olivia S. Mitchell says it takes financial planning to take the worry out of extra retirement years

BRUCE EDWARDS

Economic theory | March 2024

Transforming Economics Teaching

Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems

WENDY CARLIN

Fintech | September 2023

Embracing Artificial Intelligence

Joshua Gans argues that assessing the power and pitfalls of AI requires putting it in the hands of people

Marjorie Henríquez

Migration | June 2023

Partnerships for Refugees

UNHCR’s Filippo Grandi argues that long-term solutions for refugees go beyond humanitarian aid

BRUCE EDWARDS

Globalization | September 2024

Into the Maelstrom

Before 2020, most people barely knew that something called the global supply chain existed

CHRIS WELLISZ

Exchange rates | September 2024

Currencies Considered

The legacy of the switch to floating exchange rates in 1973

TAMIM BAYOUMI

Economic growth | September 2024

Competing for the Future

India’s path to prosperity may depend on a different strategy than the one successfully followed by others

KRISHNA SRINIVASAN

Economic growth | June 2024

High-Quality Growth

Economic policy that considers the costs of GDP growth

VIVEK ARORA

Currencies | September 2024

A Golden History

Kazakhstan’s new banknote series tells the story of the little-known but extraordinary Saka

ANALISA R. BALA

Currencies | June 2024

The Money Archive

The Smithsonian’s National Numismatic Collection is thought to be the world’s largest of its kind

MELINDA WEIR

Inclusion and gender | March 2024

In Pursuit of Freedom

New commemorative coins celebrate abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s life and legacy

MELINDA WEIR

Currencies | December 2023

On the Brink

Catalyzing support for the Philippine national bird could stem its rapid decline.

ANALISA R. BALA

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Productivity and Prosperity

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