## The Top Ten Blogs of 2015

_IMF Blog, December 30, 2015_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: iMFdirect
- Published: December 30, 2015

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### 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.*

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## References

- [Olivier Blanchard](http://blogs.imf.org/bloggers/olivier-blanchard/)
- [Vitor Gaspar](http://blogs.imf.org/bloggers/vitor-gaspar/)
- [Seven Questions About The Recent Oil Price Slump](http://blogs.imf.org/2014/12/22/seven-questions-about-the-recent-oil-price-slump/)
- [Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/07/09/greece-past-critiques-and-the-path-forward/)
- [Greece: A Credible Deal Will Require Difficult Decisions By All Sides](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/06/14/greece-a-credible-deal-will-require-difficult-decisions-by-all-sides/)
- [Act Local, Solve Global: The $5.3 Trillion Energy Subsidy Problem](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/05/18/act-local-solve-global-the-5-3-trillion-energy-subsidy-problem/)
- [Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/04/02/contours-of-macroeconomic-policy-in-the-future/)
- [Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Era of Oil](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/10/26/sovereign-wealth-funds-in-the-new-era-of-oil/)
- [Growth’s Secret Weapon: The Poor and the Middle Class](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/06/15/growths-secret-weapon-the-poor-and-the-middle-class/)
- [Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/09/14/metals-and-oil-a-tale-of-two-commodities/)
- [Ten Take Aways from the “Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?”](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/05/01/ten-take-aways-from-the-rethinking-macro-policy-progress-or-confusion/)
- [How Much Finance Is Too Much: Stability, Growth & Emerging Markets](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/05/04/how-much-finance-is-too-much-stability-growth-emerging-markets/)
- [The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/12/02/the-price-of-oil-and-the-price-of-carbon/)
- [(Yet) Another Year of Subpar Growth: Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/01/21/yet-another-year-of-subpar-growth-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-in-2015/)
- [Canada’s Financial Sector: How to Enhance its Resilience](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/03/09/canadas-financial-sector-how-to-enhance-its-resilience/)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2015/12/30/the-top-ten-blogs-of-2015_