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How Stablecoins Can Improve Payments and Global Finance

December 4, 2025

Tobias Adrian, Marcello Miccoli, Nobuyasu Sugimoto

New technology can foster innovation and financial inclusion, or cause fragmentation and turbulence in many countries

Better Economic Measurement Is About Wiser Use, Not Just More Data

December 3, 2025

Statistics are a means, not an end, that should serve the public by helping us see the world more clearly and make better decisions

Economic growth

Industrial Policy Can Lift Productivity—but Comes With Risks and Trade-offs

November 25, 2025

Shekhar Aiyar, Mehdi Benatiya Andaloussi

Potential gains in targeted sectors and overall are not guaranteed and depend on careful policy design and implementation

Artificial intelligence

How Europe Can Capture the AI Growth Dividend

November 20, 2025

Florian Misch, Ben Park, Carlo Pizzinelli, Galen Sher

Artificial intelligence could boost Europe’s productivity, but gains will hinge on efforts to deepen the single market and the calibration of regulation

Economic growth

Policy Actions Can Reinforce Growth Progress in Many G20 Economies

November 19, 2025

Nicolas Fernandez-Arias, Shushanik Hakobyan

Concerted action on economic reforms can help the G20 achieve the group’s collective growth ambitions, but the reforms with the biggest payoff vary across countries

Economic growth

Sub-Saharan Africa: Steady Growth Amid Fiscal Challenges

November 18, 2025

Abebe Aemro Selassie, Amadou Sy

Increasing government revenue and better managing debt can help foster resilience and accelerate growth