Archive 2015

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• The Top Ten Blogs of 2015
  • Published: December 30, 2015
  • Authors: iMFdirect
• China and Africa: Will the Honeymoon Continue?
  • Published: December 21, 2015
  • Authors: Wenjie Chen, Roger Nord
• The Specter of Risk in the Derivatives of Bond Mutual Funds
  • Published: December 17, 2015
  • Authors: Fabio Cortes
• It's Getting Hot in Here: Climate Change
  • Published: December 10, 2015
  • Authors: iMFdirect
• Are Capital Flows Expansionary or Contractionary? It Depends What Kind
  • Published: December 7, 2015
  • Authors: Olivier Blanchard, Jonathan D. Ostry, Marcos Chamon, Atish Rex Ghosh
• The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon
  • Published: December 2, 2015
  • Authors: Rabah Arezki, Maurice Obstfeld
• A Glimpse of the Future
  • Published: November 30, 2015
  • Authors: Jeff Hayden
• Openness and Inequality: Distributional Impacts of Capital Account Liberalization
  • Published: November 24, 2015
  • Authors: Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani
• Reviving Credit in the Euro Area
  • Published: November 23, 2015
  • Authors: Jean Portier, Luca Sanfilippo
• The Effects of Wage Moderation: Can Internal Devaluations Work?
  • Published: November 17, 2015
  • Authors: Jorg Decressin, Prakash Loungani
• Tackling Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa Could Yield Mileage on Growth
  • Published: November 16, 2015
  • Authors: Antoinette M. Sayeh
• Migration: A Global Issue in Need of a Global Solution
  • Published: November 11, 2015
  • Authors: Christine Lagarde
• Bad Debt in Emerging Markets: Still Early Days
  • Published: November 9, 2015
  • Authors: John Caparusso, Yingyuan Chen, Evan Papageorgiou, Shamir Tanna
• Corruption: A Hidden Tax on Growth
  • Published: November 5, 2015
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Sean Hagan
• Trading Out of Trouble in Latin America
  • Published: November 4, 2015
  • Authors: Natalija Novta, Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos
• What Future for Unconventional Monetary Policies
  • Published: November 2, 2015
  • Authors: Maurice Obstfeld
• Shrinking Populations, Rising Fiscal Challenges
  • Published: October 27, 2015
• Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Era of Oil
  • Published: October 26, 2015
  • Authors: Rabah Arezki, Adnan Mazarei, Prasad Ananthakrishnan
• Empowering Women, Tackling Income Inequality
  • Published: October 22, 2015
  • Authors: Sonali Jain-Chandra, Kalpana Kochhar, Monique Newiak
• To Hike or Not to Hike? Monetary Policy in Latin America During Fed Liftoff
  • Published: October 21, 2015
  • Authors: Carlos Caceres, Yan Carrière-Swallow, Bertrand Gruss
• Plato & the Incas: Overheard at the IMF’s Annual Meetings
  • Published: October 15, 2015
  • Authors: iMFdirect
• Corruption and Governance
  • Published: October 13, 2015
• How to Manage the Commodity Roller Coaster
  • Published: October 7, 2015
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar
• Global Financial Stability: Vulnerabilities, Legacies, and Policy Challenges
  • Published: October 7, 2015
  • Authors: José Viñals
• The Quest for Robust and Synchronized Growth
  • Published: October 6, 2015
  • Authors: Maurice Obstfeld
• Managing China’s Economic Transition
  • Published: October 5, 2015
• Emerging Market Corporate Debt in Foreign Currencies
  • Published: October 1, 2015
  • Authors: Selim Elekdag, Gaston Gelos
• Uncertain Times, Difficult Choices
  • Published: September 28, 2015
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Alejandro Werner
• A Strategy for Resolving Europe’s Problem Loans
  • Published: September 24, 2015
  • Authors: Shekhar Aiyar, Anna Ilyina
• With China Slowing, Faster Reforms Critical to Generate Jobs
  • Published: September 16, 2015
  • Authors: Xiaoguang Liu, Alfred Schipke, Raphael Lam
• The More the Merrier? What Happens When More People Use Financial Services
  • Published: September 15, 2015
  • Authors: Ratna Sahay, Martin Cihak, Papa N’Diaye, Adolfo Barajas, Srobona Mitra
• Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities
  • Published: September 14, 2015
  • Authors: Rabah Arezki, Akito Matsumoto
• Unpicking the Riddle of Sluggish Investment by Japanese Firms
  • Published: September 10, 2015
  • Authors: Joong Shik Kang, Shi Piao
• Seeking Fairness in the Middle East and North Africa: How Taxation Can Help
  • Published: September 8, 2015
  • Authors: Pritha Mitra
• The Road to Lima: Paved with Blogs
  • Published: September 2, 2015
• Olivier Blanchard’s Greatest Hits
  • Published: August 31, 2015
• Under Pressure
  • Published: August 27, 2015
  • Authors: Jeff Hayden
• Foreign Help Wanted: Easing Japan’s Labor Shortages
  • Published: August 24, 2015
  • Authors: Giovanni Ganelli, Naoko Miake
• Banking Union Before Euro Adoption: Flak Jacket or Straitjacket?
  • Published: August 19, 2015
  • Authors: John Bluedorn, Anna Ilyina, Plamen Iossifov
• Making Monetary Policy Decisions in the Dark
  • Published: August 12, 2015
  • Authors: Francesco Grigoli, Alexander Herman, Andrew Swiston, Gabriel Di Bella
• Russia Feeling The Pinch of Cheaper Oil, Sanctions
  • Published: August 10, 2015
  • Authors: iMFdirect
• The African Century
  • Published: August 3, 2015
  • Authors: Antoinette M. Sayeh, Abebe Aemro Selassie
• From Windfall to Windmill: Harnessing Asia’s Dynamism for Latin America
  • Published: July 22, 2015
  • Authors: Andre Meier, Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos
• The Key to Raising Business Investment: Keep Pushing the Accelerator
  • Published: July 20, 2015
  • Authors: David Lipton
• The Global Impact of Lower Oil Prices
  • Published: July 16, 2015
  • Authors: iMFdirect
• From Taper Tantrum to Bund Bedlam
  • Published: July 13, 2015
  • Authors: Yingyuan Chen, David Jones, Sanjay Hazarika
• Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward
  • Published: July 10, 2015
  • Authors: Olivier Blanchard
• Behind the News in Greece and China, Moderate Growth Continues
  • Published: July 9, 2015
  • Authors: Olivier Blanchard
• “To Lean or Not to Lean?” That is the Question
  • Published: July 1, 2015
  • Authors: Stefan Laseen, Andrea Pescatori, Jarkko Turunen
• U.S. Monetary Policy: Avoiding Dark Corners
  • Published: June 25, 2015
  • Authors: Ali Alichi, Douglas Laxton, Jarkko Turunen, Hou Wang
• Inequality's Toll on Growth
  • Published: June 22, 2015
  • Authors: iMFdirect
• Financial Stability Committees: Learning from the Experts
  • Published: June 16, 2015
  • Authors: Jorge Roldós, Alejandro Werner
• Growth’s Secret Weapon: The Poor and the Middle Class
  • Published: June 15, 2015
  • Authors: Era Dabla-Norris, Kalpana Kochhar, Evridiki Tsounta
• Greece: A Credible Deal Will Require Difficult Decisions By All Sides
  • Published: June 14, 2015
  • Authors: Olivier Blanchard
• Financing for Sustainable Development: Money and the Right Policies
  • Published: June 11, 2015
  • Authors: Min Zhu, Sarwat Jahan
• Cross-Country Analysis of Housing Finance and Real Estate Booms
  • Published: June 10, 2015
  • Authors: Eugenio Cerutti, Jihad Dagher, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia
• Raising Long-Run Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean—A Complex(ity) Issue
  • Published: June 9, 2015
  • Authors: Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos, Ke Wang
• A Watershed Moment for Latin America: Nine Takeaways from our High-Level Conference
  • Published: June 5, 2015
  • Authors: Alejandro Werner
• U.S. Economy Returning to Growth, but With Pockets of Vulnerability
  • Published: June 4, 2015
  • Authors: Christine Lagarde
• When Is Repaying Public Debt Not Of The Essence?
  • Published: June 2, 2015
  • Authors: Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish Rex Ghosh
• Once in a Generation
  • Published: May 29, 2015
  • Authors: Jeff Hayden
• Don’t Rule it Out: Simplifying Fiscal Governance in Europe
  • Published: May 29, 2015
  • Authors: Petya Koeva Brooks, Gerd Schwartz
• Reigniting Strong and Inclusive Growth in Brazil
  • Published: May 28, 2015
  • Authors: Christine Lagarde
• Flash Crashes and Swiss Francs: Market Liquidity Takes a Holiday
  • Published: May 20, 2015
  • Authors: José Viñals
• Act Local, Solve Global: The $5.3 Trillion Energy Subsidy Problem
  • Published: May 18, 2015
  • Authors: Benedict Clements, Vitor Gaspar
• Global Energy Subsidies Are Big—About US$5 Trillion Big
  • Published: May 18, 2015
  • Authors: Sanjeev Gupta, Michael Keen
• Commodity Blues: Corporate Investment in Latin America
  • Published: May 12, 2015
  • Authors: Nicolás Magud
• Securitization: Restore Credit Flow to Revive Europe’s Small Businesses
  • Published: May 7, 2015
  • Authors: Shekhar Aiyar, Bergljot Barkbu, Andreas (Andy) Jobst
• Latin America and the Fiscal Stimulus: A Mild Hangover, Not Yet an Addiction
  • Published: May 6, 2015
  • Authors: Alexander Klemm
• European Life Insurers: Unsustainable Business Model
  • Published: May 5, 2015
  • Authors: Reinout De Bock, Andrea M. Maechler, Nobuyasu Sugimoto
• How Much Finance Is Too Much: Stability, Growth & Emerging Markets
  • Published: May 4, 2015
  • Authors: Ratna Sahay, Martin Čihák, Papa N’Diaye
• Ten Take Aways from the "Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?"
  • Published: May 1, 2015
  • Authors: Olivier Blanchard
• Unclogging Euro Area Bank Lending
  • Published: April 30, 2015
  • Authors: Will Kerry, Jean Portier
• Managing Capital Flows in Frontier Economies
  • Published: April 29, 2015
  • Authors: Jonathan D. Ostry, Mahvash S. Qureshi, Atish Rex Ghosh
• Close But Not There Yet: Getting to Full Employment in the United States
  • Published: April 28, 2015
  • Authors: Ravi Balakrishnan, Juan Solé
• Multi-Track Monetary Policies in Advanced Economies: What This Means for Asia
  • Published: April 27, 2015
  • Authors: James Daniel, Rachel van Elkan
• Spring Meetings Redux!
  • Published: April 23, 2015
  • Authors: Sabina Bhatia
• Tolstoy & Billionaires: Overheard at the IMF's Spring Meetings
  • Published: April 21, 2015
• Northern Spring, Southern Chills: Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Published: April 17, 2015
  • Authors: Alejandro Werner
• Oil Prices and Public Finances: A Double-Edged Sword
  • Published: April 15, 2015
  • Authors: Benedict Clements, Marta Ruiz-Arranz
• Measure to Measure: The Effect of Fiscal Policy on Growth and Stability
  • Published: April 15, 2015
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar
• Financial Risks Rise Amid Uneven Global Economic Recovery
  • Published: April 15, 2015
  • Authors: José Viñals
• Four Forces Facing the Global Economy
  • Published: April 14, 2015
  • Authors: Olivier Blanchard
• Growth Dividend from Stabilizing Fiscal Policies
  • Published: April 8, 2015
  • Authors: Xavier Debrun
• No Puzzle About Weak Business Investment: It’s the Economy!
  • Published: April 7, 2015
  • Authors: AQIB ASLAM, Daniel Leigh, Seok Gil Park
• The Promise of Islamic Finance: Further Inclusion with Stability
  • Published: April 6, 2015
  • Authors: Mohamed Norat, Marco Pinon, Zeine Zeidane
• Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future
  • Published: April 2, 2015
  • Authors: Olivier Blanchard
• Can Abenomics Succeed? Overcoming the Legacy of the Lost Decades
  • Published: April 1, 2015
• Making Small Beautiful Again: The Challenge of SME Problem Loans in Europe
  • Published: March 31, 2015
  • Authors: Yan Liu, Kenneth Kang, Dermot Monaghan, Wolfgang Bergthaler
• What Advanced Economies Can Do to Rise Above the “New Mediocre”
  • Published: March 30, 2015
  • Authors: Era Dabla-Norris, Vikram Haksar, Kalpana Kochhar
• Fiscal Policy And Structural Reform
  • Published: March 27, 2015
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar
• The Elusive Quest for International Policy Cooperation
  • Published: March 26, 2015
  • Authors: Olivier Blanchard, Mahvash S. Qureshi, Atish Rex Ghosh
• Dams And Dikes For Public Finances
  • Published: March 18, 2015
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Richard Hughes, Laura Jaramillo
• Seizing India’s Moment
  • Published: March 16, 2015
• Resolving Residential Mortgage Distress: Time to Modify
  • Published: March 11, 2015
  • Authors: Jochen Andritzky
• Canada’s Financial Sector: How to Enhance its Resilience
  • Published: March 9, 2015
  • Authors: Hamid Faruqee, Andrea Pescatori
• Building A Monetary Union in Africa
  • Published: March 4, 2015
• Down But Not Out
  • Published: March 2, 2015
  • Authors: Jeff Hayden
• Fiscal Impact of Lower Oil Prices on Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Published: February 26, 2015
  • Authors: Robert Rennhack, Fabián Valencia
• Fiscal Arrangements in Federations: Four Lessons for Europe
  • Published: February 25, 2015
  • Authors: Martine Guerguil
• Fair Play—Equal Laws for Equal Working Opportunity for Women
  • Published: February 23, 2015
  • Authors: Christine Lagarde
• Investment in the Euro Area: Why Has It Been So Weak?
  • Published: February 19, 2015
  • Authors: Bergljot Bjørnson Barkbu, S. Pelin Berkmen, Hanni Schölermann
• Warning—Falling (U.S. Treasury) Objects
  • Published: February 12, 2015
  • Authors: Nigel Chalk, Jarkko Turunen
• How Can Egypt Achieve Economic Stability and Better Living Standards Together?
  • Published: February 11, 2015
  • Authors: Christopher Jarvis
• Time to Act on the G-20 Agenda: The Global Economy Will Thank You
  • Published: February 6, 2015
  • Authors: Christine Lagarde
• Disinflation in EU Countries outside the Eurozone
  • Published: February 2, 2015
  • Authors: Plamen Iossifov, Jiri Podpiera
• A Big Step Forward for Bolstering Financial Inclusion
  • Published: January 28, 2015
  • Authors: David Marston, Era Dabla-Norris, D. Filiz Unsal
• What’s not to love about free data
  • Published: January 26, 2015
• Learning to Live with Cheaper Oil in the Middle East
  • Published: January 22, 2015
  • Authors: Masood Ahmed
• (Yet) Another Year of Subpar Growth: Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015
  • Published: January 21, 2015
  • Authors: Alejandro Werner
• Global Economy Faces Strong and Complex Cross Currents
  • Published: January 19, 2015
  • Authors: Olivier Blanchard
• Battling Global Unemployment: Too Soon to Declare Victory
  • Published: January 14, 2015
  • Authors: Prakash Loungani
• Inclusive Growth=Stability
  • Published: January 12, 2015
• Housing Bubbles: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
  • Published: January 7, 2015
  • Authors: Kevin Fletcher, Peter Kunzel

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