The Top Ten Blogs of 2015
IMF Blog, December 30, 2015
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- Authors: iMFdirect
- Published: December 30, 2015
Overview
- Publication: iMFdirect
- Date: December 30, 2015
- Summary: 2015 featured bold blog contributions at the IMF, including pieces by Olivier Blanchard and Vitor Gaspar, head of the Fiscal Affairs Department.
- Reader interest focused on: tough choices for Greece; the slump in commodity prices; the real cost of energy subsidies; how the poor and middle class contribute to growth; and new insights into emerging markets.
Top ten list (compiled based on readership)
- Seven Questions About The Recent Oil Price Slump *
- Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward
- Greece: A Credible Deal Will Require Difficult Decisions By All Sides
- Act Local, Solve Global: The $5.3 Trillion Energy Subsidy Problem
- Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future
- Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Era of Oil
- Growth’s Secret Weapon: The Poor and the Middle Class
- Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities
- Ten Take Aways from the “Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?”
- How Much Finance Is Too Much: Stability, Growth & Emerging Markets
- Note: "* published in late December 2014 but we decided to grandfather it in."
Honorable mentions
- The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon
- (Yet) Another Year of Subpar Growth: Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015
- Canada’s Financial Sector: How to Enhance its Resilience
Closing
- From the editors of iMFdirect: wishes for a peaceful, intriguing and insightful 2016.
Source: The Top Ten Blogs of 2015, iMFdirect, December 30, 2015.
References
- Olivier Blanchard
- Vitor Gaspar
- Seven Questions About The Recent Oil Price Slump
- Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward
- Greece: A Credible Deal Will Require Difficult Decisions By All Sides
- Act Local, Solve Global: The $5.3 Trillion Energy Subsidy Problem
- Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future
- Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Era of Oil
- Growth’s Secret Weapon: The Poor and the Middle Class
- Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities
- Ten Take Aways from the “Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?”
- How Much Finance Is Too Much: Stability, Growth & Emerging Markets
- The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon
- (Yet) Another Year of Subpar Growth: Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015
- Canada’s Financial Sector: How to Enhance its Resilience