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  • COVID-19

The IMF and COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

The Future of Asia: What a Difference a Year Can Make

March 17, 2021

COVID-19 exacerbated existing long-term issues in Asia-Pacific: slowing productivity, growing debt, aging populations, and rising inequality. A new IMF staff paper looks into how the region can navigate these multiple challenges.

  • Q&As: The IMF's Response to COVID-19
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“The IMF has secured $1 trillion in lending capacity, serving our members and responding fast to an unprecedented number of emergency financing requests—from over 90 countries so far. ”

Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director, IMF

  • Policy Advice to Asia in the COVID-19 Era - March 5, 2021
  • Further Extension of Consultation Cycles Due To Covid-19 Pandemic, and Suspension of Framework To Address Excessive Delays in Article IV Consultations and Mandatory Financial Stability Assessments - July 17, 2020
  • Inside Jordan’s Fight to Tackle COVID-19
  • Five Charts That Illustrate COVID-19’s Impact on the Middle East and Central Asia
  • Regional Economic Outlook Update for Sub-Saharan Africa - June 2020
  • Global Financial Stability Report Update: Financial Conditions Have Eased, but Insolvencies Loom Large - June 2020
  • World Economic Outlook Update: A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery - June 2020
  • Policies, Politics and Pandemics – F&D Magazine - June 2020
  • IMF Executive Board Approves Two-Year US$23.93 Billion Flexible Credit Line Arrangement for Chile - May 29, 2020
  • IMF Executive Board Approves Two-Year US$11 Billion Flexible Credit Line Arrangement for Peru - May 28, 2020
  • How the IMF is Promoting Transparent and Accountable Use of COVID-19 Financial Assistance - May 5, 2020
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A Global Crisis Like No Other Needs a Global Response Like No Other
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  • COVID-19 Hits the Poor Harder, but Scaled-Up Testing Can Help, December 3, 2020
  • Trade as a Tool for an Efficient Recovery, September 14, 2020
  • Guilt, Gender, and an Inclusive Recovery: A Lesson from Japan, September 9, 2020
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  • Reform of the International Debt Architecture is Urgently Needed
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How the IMF Helps Countries

Emergency Financial Assistance by Region
(Last updated: March 2021)
 

Notes: How Governments Can Support People And Firms During COVID-19
(Last updated: March 2021)

Policy Tracker: Economic responses to COVID-19 by 196 countries
(Last updated: March 2021)
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(Last updated: October 2020)
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