International trade | September 2023

The Drive for Trade Integration

Jihad Azour and Abebe Aemro Selassie talk about the potential of unified trade across Africa

Jihad Azour

Abe Selassie

Globalization | Podcast

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas on Geopolitics and Dollar Dominance

In this podcast, IMF Chief Economist, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas discusses what fragmentation of the global economy might mean for the dominance of the US dollar in the international monetary and financial system.

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Globalization | June 2022

Shifting Geopolitical Tectonic Plates

A more fragmented world will need the IMF more, not less

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Climate change | March 2021

Averting a Great Divergence

Exiting the pandemic with minimal scarring will require policy action on several fronts

GITA GOPINATH

Monetary policy | December 2020

No Going Back

Investing in policies for people will help shape a better economy for the postcrisis world

KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA

COVID-19 | September 2020

Knightmare Uncertainty

In the COVID-19 world, risk has become riskier

GEOFFREY OKAMOTO