## Economics After the Great Recession

_IMF Blog, October 25, 2016_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: iMFdirect
- Published: October 25, 2016

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### Event and participants
- Publication: iMFdirect
- Date: October 25, 2016
- Event: The IMF’s Annual Research Conference is coming up November 3 and 4
- Participants highlighted:
  - Maurice Obstfeld — the IMF’s Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department
  - Olivier Blanchard — the IMF’s former Economic Counsellor and now a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute in Washington, D.C.
- Media: Video conversation [embedded YouTube link in source]

### Central issue highlighted
- Low potential growth in advanced economies is identified as the main issue facing the global economy.

### Factors and legacies discussed
- Blanchard’s assessment:
  - Cannot blame everything on the crisis; other contributors include:
    - The slowdown in productivity growth
    - Demographics
  - These trends must be addressed alongside the legacies from the great recession

### Conference focus and objectives
- The conference will:
  - Revisit traditional macroeconomic issues
  - Bring in new issues—inequality and globalization—to shed light on current conditions and future directions
  - Explore Olivier Blanchard's legacy
  - Survey the new issues
  - Point the way forward to new solutions

*Source: iMFdirect, October 25, 2016 — "Economics After the Great Recession"*

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## References

- [Annual Research Conference](http://www.imf.org/external/np/res/seminars/2016/arc/index.htm)
- [video](http://www.imf.org/external/mmedia/view.aspx?vid=5183532820001)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2016/10/25/economics-after-the-great-recession_