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• Top 10 Blogs of 2021 Show Breadth of Global Policy Challenges
  • Published: December 23, 2021
• Higher Shipping Costs May Lift Asia’s Low Inflation
  • Published: December 22, 2021
  • Authors: Yan Carrière-Swallow, Pragyan Deb, Daniel Jiménez
• IMF Podcasts: The Year in Review
  • Published: December 21, 2021
• Africa Cannot Confront Climate Change Alone
  • Published: December 17, 2021
  • Summary: Africa contributes almost nothing to global warming.
• Africa's Path to Recovery in an Uncertain World
  • Published: December 16, 2021
  • Summary: Op-Ed by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and President of Senegal Macky Sall
• The World’s Top Recipients of Foreign Direct Investment
  • Published: December 16, 2021
  • Authors: Carlos Sánchez-Muñoz, Silvia Matei, Kristy Howell
• Global Debt Reaches a Record $226 Trillion
  • Published: December 15, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Paulo Medas, Roberto Perrelli
  • Summary: Policymakers must strike the right balance in the face of high debt and rising inflation.
• Making Electronic Money Safer in the Digital Age
  • Published: December 14, 2021
  • Authors: José Garrido, Jan Nolte
  • Summary: As e-money use grows, regulators need to focus on consumer protection and the integrity of the overall payments system.
• Global Crypto Regulation Should be Comprehensive, Consistent, and Coordinated
  • Published: December 9, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Dong He, Aditya Narain
  • Summary: The IMF’s mandate is to safeguard the stability of the international monetary and financial system, and crypto assets are changing the system profoundly.
• Metals Demand From Energy Transition May Top Current Global Supply
  • Published: December 8, 2021
  • Authors: Nico Valckx, Martin Stuermer, Dulani Seneviratne,, Prasad Ananthakrishnan
• Food Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Published: December 6, 2021
  • Authors: Seung Mo Choi
• Addressing Inflation Pressures Amid an Enduring Pandemic
  • Published: December 3, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Gita Gopinath
  • Summary: With inflationary pressures intensifying and Omicron generating new uncertainties, monetary policymakers are facing new and challenging tradeoffs.
• The Economics of Health and Well-Being
  • Published: December 2, 2021
  • Authors: Gita Bhatt
• The G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments Must Be Stepped Up
  • Published: December 2, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
  • Summary: With the debt service suspension initiative expiring and interest rates poised to rise, low-income countries will find it increasingly difficult to service their debts.
• Sovereign Domestic Debt Restructuring: Handle with Care
  • Published: December 1, 2021
  • Authors: Peter Breuer, Anna Ilyina, Hoang Pham
  • Summary: Restructuring domestic debt is like surgery: You only do it if you must, and you avoid it if it might do more harm than good.
• Global Financial Safety Net—A Lifeline for an Uncertain World
  • Published: November 30, 2021
  • Authors: Alina Iancu, Seunghwan Kim, Alexei Miksjuk
• How Domestic Violence is a Threat to Economic Development
  • Published: November 24, 2021
  • Authors: Rasmane Ouedraogo, David Stenzel
  • Summary: Stopping violence against women is not only a moral imperative, new evidence shows that it can help the economy.
• In the Race to Vaccinate Sub-Saharan Africa Continues to Fall Behind
  • Published: November 22, 2021
  • Authors: Shushanik Hakobyan
• How Trade Can Help Speed Asia’s Economic Recovery
  • Published: November 19, 2021
  • Authors: Pragyan Deb, Julia Estefania-Flores, Siddharth Kothari, Nour Tawk
• Sharing the Gains of Automation: The Role of Fiscal Policy
  • Published: November 18, 2021
  • Authors: Nikolay Gueorguiev, Ryota Nakatani
  • Summary: Careful calibration of spending and tax policies can reduce inequality caused by automation.
• Latin America’s Inflation Challenge
  • Published: November 16, 2021
  • Authors: Maximiliano Appendino
• Soaring Metal Prices May Delay Energy Transition
  • Published: November 10, 2021
  • Authors: Lukas Boer, Andrea Pescatori, Martin Stuermer, Nico Valckx
• The Unequal COVID Saving and Wealth Surge
  • Published: November 9, 2021
  • Authors: Cian Allen, Cyril Rebillard
• Countering Tax Avoidance in Sub-Saharan Africa’s Mining Sector
  • Published: November 5, 2021
  • Authors: Giorgia Albertin, Dan Devlin, Boriana Yontcheva
• Brave New World: Tracking Trade from Space
  • Published: November 2, 2021
  • Authors: Serkan Arslanalp, Robin Koepke, Jasper Verschuur
• Not Yet on Track: Climate Threat Demands More Ambitious Global Action
  • Published: November 1, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: New IMF analysis shows gaps in ambition and policy needed to achieve emissions curbs that contain global warming.
• Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean Challenges and Opportunities
  • Published: October 28, 2021
  • Authors: Anna Ivanova, Julie Kozack, Jorge Roldós, Sònia Muñoz
  • Summary: Adapting to new climate conditions while intensifying mitigation efforts will require major structural transformations in the region.
• Opinion: Time of major economic transformations in the Middle East
  • Published: October 27, 2021
  • Authors: Jihad Azour
• Joint Action Needed to Secure the Recovery
  • Published: October 27, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: G20 should lead in sharing vaccine doses, helping developing countries financially, and committing to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century.
• Needed—A Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age
  • Published: October 26, 2021
  • Authors: Vikram Haksar, Yan Carrière-Swallow, Kathleen Kao, Gabriel Quirós-Romero
  • Summary: Global principles on data policy can help level the playing field while addressing financial stability and inclusion, competition, and privacy.
• Longer Delivery Times Reflect Supply Chain Disruptions
  • Published: October 25, 2021
  • Authors: Parisa Kamali, Alex (Shiyao) Wang
• Surging Energy Prices May Not Ease Until Next Year
  • Published: October 21, 2021
  • Authors: Andrea Pescatori, Martin Stuermer, Nico Valckx
  • Summary: Soaring natural gas prices are rippling through global energy markets—and other economic sectors from factories to utilities.
• Europe’s Post-Pandemic Economic Challenges
  • Published: October 20, 2021
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer
  • Summary: Getting fiscal policy right will be harder than dealing with inflation.
• Housing Prices Continue to Soar in Many Countries Around the World
  • Published: October 18, 2021
  • Authors: The Editors
• Fiscal Policy for an Uncertain World
  • Published: October 13, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Sandra Lizarazo, Paulo Medas, Roberto Piazza
• Uncertainty Grips Markets as Optimism Wanes
  • Published: October 12, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian
  • Summary: Market sentiment has deteriorated since earlier this year amid still elevated financial vulnerabilities and mounting concerns about risks to inflation.
• A Hobbled Recovery Along Entrenched Fault Lines
  • Published: October 12, 2021
  • Authors: Gita Gopinath
  • Summary: The global recovery continues amid increasing uncertainty, more complex policy trade-offs.
• Sharing the Recovery: SDR Channeling and a New Trust
  • Published: October 8, 2021
  • Authors: Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Uma Ramakrishnan
• When It Comes to Public Finances, Credibility Is Key
  • Published: October 7, 2021
  • Authors: Raphael Espinoza, Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro
• Why Basic Science Matters for Economic Growth
  • Published: October 6, 2021
  • Authors: Philip Barrett, Niels-Jakob Hansen, Jean-Marc Natal, Diaa Noureldin
  • Summary: Public investment in basic research will pay for itself.
• Inflation Scares in an Uncharted Recovery
  • Published: October 6, 2021
  • Authors: Francesca Caselli, Prachi Mishra
  • Summary: A key question is what combination of events could cause persistently faster price gains.
• How Investment Funds Can Drive the Green Transition
  • Published: October 4, 2021
  • Authors: Fabio Natalucci, Felix Suntheim, Jérôme Vandenbussche
  • Summary: Sustainable investment funds need to be scaled up to support a successful transition to a green economy.
• Crypto Boom Poses New Challenges to Financial Stability
  • Published: October 1, 2021
  • Authors: Dimitris Drakopoulos, Fabio Natalucci, Evan Papageorgiou
  • Summary: As crypto assets take hold, regulators need to step up.
• How Countries Can Diversify Their Exports
  • Published: September 22, 2021
  • Authors: Gonzalo Salinas
• To Safeguard Global Financial Stability, Boost the Resilience of Investment Funds
  • Published: September 17, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Antonio Garcia Pascual, Ranjit Singh, Jay Surti
• How to Tax in Asia’s Digital Age
  • Published: September 14, 2021
  • Authors: Era Dabla-Norris, Andrew Hodge, Dinar Prihardini
  • Summary: New global reforms will change where tech giants pay taxes in Asia and make the international tax system more robust.
• The Climate Issue
  • Published: September 7, 2021
  • Authors: Gita Bhatt
• Your Top 5 Back-to-School Blogs
  • Published: September 2, 2021
  • Authors: The Editors
• A Shot in the Arm—How Special Drawing Rights Can Help Struggling Countries
  • Published: August 26, 2021
  • Authors: The Editors
• How the world can make the most of new special drawing rights
  • Published: August 23, 2021
• Your Weekend Podcast Roundup
  • Published: August 20, 2021
  • Authors: The Editors
  • Summary: We may not be commuting as much, but it seems we’re still listening.
• Pacific Island Airlines: Flying on Empty?
  • Published: August 18, 2021
  • Authors: Vybhavi Balasundharam, Leni Hunter
• From the History Books: The Rethinking of the International Monetary System
  • Published: August 16, 2021
  • Authors: Atish Rex Ghosh
• IMF Summer Reads
  • Published: August 13, 2021
  • Authors: The Editors
• Putting Public Investment to Work
  • Published: August 11, 2021
  • Authors: Mariano Moszoro
• Coming Together
  • Published: August 10, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Gita Gopinath
  • Summary: Differences in vaccine access and the ability to deploy policy support are creating a growing divergence between advanced economies from many emerging market and developing economies.
• Women in Economics
  • Published: August 6, 2021
  • Authors: The Editors
  • Summary: Women remain underrepresented in economics, yet many have made an outsized impact on the field.
• Managing the Political Economy of Climate Change Policies
  • Published: August 5, 2021
  • Authors: Davide Furceri, Jonathan D. Ostry
• How To Escape The Perils of Fragility
  • Published: August 3, 2021
  • Authors: Olusegun Akanbi, Kenji Moriyama, Keyra Primus
  • Summary: Already facing huge development needs, the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the challenges facing fragile and conflict states—a group of currently about 40 countries trapped in cycles of low administrative capacity, political instability, conflict, and weak economic performance.
• How the Pandemic Widened Global Current Account Balances
  • Published: August 2, 2021
  • Authors: Martin Kaufman, Daniel Leigh
• Making The Digital Money Revolution Work for All
  • Published: July 29, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli
  • Summary: History moves in uneven steps. Just as the telegraph erased time and distance in the 19th century, today’s innovations in digital money may bring significant changes in the way we lead our lives. The shift to electronic payments and social interactions brought on by the pandemic may cause similarly rapid and widespread transformations.
• Drawing Further Apart: Widening Gaps in the Global Recovery
  • Published: July 27, 2021
  • Authors: Gita Gopinath
  • Summary: The global economic recovery continues, but with a widening gap between advanced economies and many emerging market and developing economies.
• Cryptoassets as National Currency? A Step Too Far
  • Published: July 26, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Rhoda Weeks-Brown
• Stepping Up to Meet Low-Income Countries’ Pandemic Recovery Needs
  • Published: July 26, 2021
  • Authors: Christian Mumssen, Seán Nolan
• Reaching Net Zero Emissions
  • Published: July 22, 2021
  • Authors: Florence Jaumotte, Gregor Schwerhoff
• Taming Market Power Could (also) Help Monetary Policy
  • Published: July 21, 2021
  • Authors: Romain Duval, Davide Furceri, Marina M. Tavares
  • Summary: Some central banks are currently debating whether to tighten monetary policy to fight inflationary pressures, after having eased decisively in response to the COVID-19 shock.
• Seizing the Opportunity for a Pro-Growth, Post-Pandemic World
  • Published: July 20, 2021
  • Authors: Geoffrey W.S. Okamoto
• The Resilience of Private Balance Sheets in Europe during COVID-19
  • Published: July 15, 2021
  • Authors: Estelle Xue Liu, Karim Foda, Sebastian Weber
• Could Renewed Social Unrest Hinder the Recovery?
  • Published: July 13, 2021
  • Authors: Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, Samuel Pienknagura, Luca Ricci
• What COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Mitigating Climate Change
  • Published: July 9, 2021
  • Authors: Oya Celasun, Florence Jaumotte, Antonio Spilimbergo
• Urgent Action Needed to Address a Worsening ‘Two-Track’ Recovery
  • Published: July 7, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: By Kristalina Georgieva
• Sub-Saharan Africa: We Need to Act Now
  • Published: June 28, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Abebe Aemro Selassie
• Four Facts about Soaring Consumer Food Prices
  • Published: June 24, 2021
  • Authors: Christian Bogmans, Andrea Pescatori, Ervin Prifti
• A Proposal to Scale Up Global Carbon Pricing
  • Published: June 18, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Ian Parry
• How to Attract Private Finance to Africa’s Development
  • Published: June 14, 2021
  • Authors: Luc Eyraud,, Catherine Pattillo, Abebe Aemro Selassie
• Getting Back to Growth
  • Published: June 10, 2021
  • Authors: Lone Engbo Christiansen, Ashique Habib, Margaux MacDonald, Davide Malacrino
• The Benefits of Setting a Lower Limit on Corporate Taxation
  • Published: June 9, 2021
  • Authors: AQIB ASLAM, Maria Coelho
  • Summary: On June 5, 2021, Finance Ministers from the Group of Seven major industrialized nations committed to a global minimum corporate tax rate on multinationals of at least 15 percent. While there are a number of details yet to be hammered out in broader global discussions, this historic agreement heralds an important step forward on the road to international corporate tax reform.
• Four Factors Behind the Metals Price Rally
  • Published: June 8, 2021
  • Authors: Martin Stuermer, Nico Valckx
• The Next Move: Consequences for Emerging Markets
  • Published: June 2, 2021
  • Authors: Gita Bhatt
• A New Commitment for Vaccine Equity and Defeating the Pandemic
  • Published: June 1, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: By Kristalina Georgieva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, David Malpass and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
• How to Reduce COVID-19’s Unequal Effects Across Workers
  • Published: June 1, 2021
  • Authors: Jorge Mondragon, Marina M. Tavares
• Making Affordable Rental Housing Part of Europe’s Recovery
  • Published: May 26, 2021
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer, Andrea Schaechter, Andreas Tudyka
• Fit for Purpose—Adapting IMF Advice to a New Economic Landscape
  • Published: May 24, 2021
  • Authors: Fabian Bornhorst, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
• A Proposal to End the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Published: May 21, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Gita Gopinath, Ruchir Agarwal
• Checking the Receipts from Pandemic-Related Spending
  • Published: May 20, 2021
  • Authors: Chady El Khoury, Jiro Honda, Johan Mathisen, Etienne Yehoue
  • Summary: blog
• How Strengthening Standards for Data and Disclosure Can Make for a Greener Future
  • Published: May 13, 2021
  • Authors: Caio Ferreira, Fabio Natalucci, Ranjit Singh, Felix Suntheim
• The Policymaker’s Trilemma
  • Published: May 12, 2021
  • Authors: Abebe Aemro Selassie, Andrew Tiffin
• How Stock Markets Respond to Social Unrest
  • Published: May 10, 2021
  • Authors: Philip Barrett, Sophia Chen
• Economies in the Financial Spotlight in 2021
  • Published: May 6, 2021
• US Dollar Share of Global Foreign Exchange Reserves Drops to 25-Year Low
  • Published: May 5, 2021
  • Authors: Serkan Arslanalp, Chima Simpson-Bell
• COVID-19: The Moms Emergency
  • Published: April 30, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Stefania Fabrizio, Diego B. P. Gomes, Marina M. Tavares
• Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Will Require Extraordinary Effort by All
  • Published: April 29, 2021
  • Authors: Dora Benedek, Edward Gemayel, Abdelhak Senhadji, Alexander F. Tieman
• Understanding the Rise in Long-Term Rates
  • Published: April 22, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Rohit Goel, Sheheryar Malik, Fabio Natalucci
  • Summary: The rise in long-term US interest rates has become a focus of global macro-financial concerns.
• A Future with High Public Debt: Low-for-Long Is Not Low Forever
  • Published: April 20, 2021
  • Authors: Marcos Chamon, Jonathan D. Ostry
• What Pandemics Mean for Robots and Inequality
  • Published: April 19, 2021
  • Authors: Tahsin Saadi Sedik, Jiae Yoo
• A COVID-19 Recovery Contribution
  • Published: April 16, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Michael Keen, Alexander Klemm, Paolo Mauro
• Short-term Shot and Long-term Healing for Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Published: April 15, 2021
  • Authors: Alejandro Werner, Takuji Komatsuzaki, Carlo Pizzinelli
• From Vaccines to V-Shaped Recovery in Europe
  • Published: April 14, 2021
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer
• After a Strong Crisis Response, Asia Can Build a Fairer and Greener Future
  • Published: April 13, 2021
  • Authors: Jonathan D. Ostry
• Tailoring Government Support
  • Published: April 7, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro, Raphael Lam, Mehdi Raissi
• An Asynchronous and Divergent Recovery May Put Financial Stability at Risk
  • Published: April 6, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian
• Managing Divergent Recoveries
  • Published: April 6, 2021
  • Authors: Gita Gopinath
• Funding the Recovery of Low-income Countries After COVID
  • Published: April 5, 2021
  • Authors: Guillaume Chabert, Robert Gregory, Gaëlle Pierre
  • Summary: Many of the poorest countries in the world are facing the threat of a weak recovery, and setback in their development path.
• How Rising Interest Rates Could Affect Emerging Markets
  • Published: April 5, 2021
  • Authors: Philipp Engler, Roberto Piazza, Galen Sher
• Taming the Wave of Small and Medium Enterprise Insolvencies
  • Published: April 2, 2021
  • Authors: Federico J. Díez, Romain Duval, Chiara Maggi, Nicola Pierri
  • Summary: The pandemic has hit small and medium enterprises particularly hard, partly because they are predominant in some contact-intensive sectors like hotels, restaurants, and entertainment.
• Giving Everyone a Fair Shot
  • Published: April 1, 2021
  • Authors: David Amaglobeli, Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro
• Slow-Healing Scars: The Pandemic’s Legacy
  • Published: March 31, 2021
  • Authors: Sonali Das, Philippe Wingender
• Working Out the Differences: Labor Policies for a Fairer Recovery
  • Published: March 31, 2021
  • Authors: John Bluedorn
• Confronting the Hazards of Rising Leverage
  • Published: March 29, 2021
• Confronting the Hazards of Rising Leverage
  • Published: March 29, 2021
  • Authors: Adolfo Barajas, Fabio Natalucci
• Commercial Real Estate at a Crossroads
  • Published: March 29, 2021
  • Authors: Andrea Deghi, Fabio Natalucci
• How European Banks Can Support the Recovery
  • Published: March 26, 2021
  • Authors: Mai Chi Dao, Aiko Mineshima, Srobona Mitra, Andreas (Andy) Jobst
• Asia-Pacific, the Gigantic Domino of Climate Change
  • Published: March 25, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Chang Yong Rhee
• The Future of Asia: What a Difference a Year Can Make
  • Published: March 17, 2021
  • Authors: Chang Yong Rhee, Katsiaryna Svirydzenka
• Blowing Hot and Cold
  • Published: March 16, 2021
  • Authors: Jiaxiong Yao
• Rising Market Power—A Threat to the Recovery?
  • Published: March 15, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Federico J. Díez, Romain Duval, Daniel Schwarz
• Keeping it Local: A Secure and Stable Way to Access Financing
  • Published: March 12, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Thor Jonasson, Ayhan Kose, Anderson Silva
• A New Vision for the US Climate Agenda
  • Published: March 10, 2021
  • Authors: Ian Parry
  • Summary: Over the next decade, global greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut by 25– 50 percent to be on track for meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of containing global warming to 1.5–2°C.
• How Countries Are Helping Small Businesses Survive COVID-19
  • Published: March 9, 2021
  • Authors: Kazuko Shirono, Esha Chhabra, Yingjie Fan
• Engendering the Recovery: Budgeting with Women in Mind
  • Published: March 5, 2021
  • Authors: Antoinette M. Sayeh, Jiro Honda, Carolina Renteria, Vincent Tang
  • Summary: International Women’s Day, March 8, marks a year from the start of widespread lockdowns in response to COVID-19. As an IMF blog warned back in July, women have borne the economic and social brunt of the pandemic.
• Key to Resolving Covid’s Global Debt Crunch: Transparency
  • Published: March 5, 2021
• The Evidence Is in on Negative Interest Rate Policies
  • Published: March 3, 2021
  • Authors: Gaston Gelos
• Staying Afloat: New Measures to Support European Businesses
  • Published: March 2, 2021
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer, Laura Papi
• The Haves and Have-nots Of the Digital Age
  • Published: March 1, 2021
  • Authors: Gita Bhatt
• The Great Divergence: A Fork in the Road for the Global Economy
  • Published: February 24, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• Divergent Recoveries in Asia: History is not Destiny
  • Published: February 23, 2021
  • Authors: Davide Furceri, Jonathan D. Ostry, Anthony C.K. Tan
  • Summary: Asian economies are performing better than expected.
• Structural Factors and Central Bank Credibility Limit Inflation Risks
  • Published: February 19, 2021
  • Authors: Gita Gopinath
  • Summary: After ending last year with unexpectedly strong vaccine success and hope that the pandemic and economic distress it caused would recede, we woke up to the reality of new virus variants and the unpredictable, winding road that it can lead the world down.
• Public and Private Money Can Coexist in the Digital Age
  • Published: February 18, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli
  • Summary: We value innovation and diversity—including in money. In the same day, we might pay by swiping a card, waving a phone, or clicking a mouse. Or we might hand over notes and coins, though in many countries increasingly less often.
• Why Climate Change Vulnerability Is Bad for Sovereign Credit Ratings
  • Published: February 17, 2021
  • Authors: Serhan Cevik, João Tovar Jalles
  • Summary: Climate change has made the world a riskier place.
• When it Comes to Services vs. Manufacturing, Words Matter
  • Published: February 16, 2021
  • Authors: Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov
• How e-Government Services Can Pay Dividends
  • Published: February 11, 2021
  • Authors: Ali Al-Sadiq
• Latin America and Caribbean’s Winding Road to Recovery
  • Published: February 8, 2021
  • Authors: Alejandro Werner, Anna Ivanova, Takuji Komatsuzaki
• Cooperation Critical to Reducing Divergent Paths to Recovery in Middle East and Central Asia
  • Published: February 4, 2021
  • Authors: Jihad Azour
• COVID’s Long Shadow: Social Repercussions of Pandemics
  • Published: February 3, 2021
  • Authors: Philip Barrett, Sophia Chen, Nan Li
• The Pre-Pandemic Debt Landscape—and Why It Matters
  • Published: February 1, 2021
  • Authors: Xuehui Han, Paulo Medas, Susan Yang
• Government Support Is Vital as Countries Race to Vaccinate
  • Published: January 28, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Raphael Lam, Paolo Mauro, Mehdi Raissi
• Financial Perils in Check for Now, Eyes Turn to Risk of Market Correction
  • Published: January 27, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Fabio Natalucci
• A Race Between Vaccines and the Virus as Recoveries Diverge
  • Published: January 26, 2021
  • Authors: Gita Gopinath
  • Summary: In just three months since we released our last forecast in October, recorded COVID-19 deaths have doubled to over 2 million, as new waves have lifted infections past previous peaks in many countries.
• What the Continued Global Uncertainty Means for You
  • Published: January 19, 2021
  • Authors: Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom, Davide Furceri
• Legally Speaking, is Digital Money Really Money?
  • Published: January 14, 2021
  • Authors: Catalina Margulis, Arthur Rossi
• Denmark’s Ambitious Green Vision
  • Published: January 11, 2021
  • Authors: Nicoletta Batini, Miguel Segoviano
• The Jobs of Tomorrow
  • Published: January 7, 2021
  • Authors: The Editors
  • Summary: Sadia Zahidi of the World Economic Forum writes for the IMF's Finance & Development Magazine about their Future of Jobs Report.
• Top 10 Blogs of 2020
  • Published: January 4, 2021
  • Authors: The Editors
  • Summary: Welcome to 2021. Before we step too far into the new year, the editors at IMFBlog invite you to reflect on what the world went through in 2020.

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