Gita Gopinath
Gita Gopinath served as the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from January 21, 2022, until August 2025. In that role, she oversaw the work of staff, represented the Fund at multilateral forums, maintained high-level contacts with member governments, Board members, the media, and other institutions, led the Fund’s work on surveillance and related policies, and oversaw research and flagship publications.
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Central Banks Can Fend Off Financial Turmoil and Still Fight Inflation
- Published: June 5, 2023
- Authors: Tobias Adrian, Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
- Summary: But there are trade-offs between price and financial stability during times of stress, especially when inflation is high
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How Countries Should Respond to the Strong Dollar
- Published: October 14, 2022
- Authors: Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
- Summary: Policy responses to currency depreciation pressures should focus on the drivers of the exchange-rate moves and signs of market disruptions
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Why We Must Resist Geoeconomic Fragmentation—And How
- Published: May 22, 2022
- Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Gita Gopinath, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
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Why the IMF is Updating its View on Capital Flows
- Published: March 30, 2022
- Authors: Tobias Adrian, Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Rhoda Weeks-Brown
- Summary: In some circumstances, countries should have the option of pre-emptively curbing debt inflows to safeguard macroeconomic and financial stability.
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A Disrupted Global Recovery
- Published: January 25, 2022
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
- Summary: Growth slows as economies grapple with supply disruptions, higher inflation, record debt and persistent uncertainty.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Proposal to End the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Published: May 21, 2021
- Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Gita Gopinath, Ruchir Agarwal
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Managing Divergent Recoveries
- Published: April 6, 2021
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
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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.
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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.
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Navigating Capital Flows—An Integrated Approach
- Published: December 9, 2020
- Authors: Tobias Adrian, Gita Gopinath, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
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A Long, Uneven and Uncertain Ascent
- Published: October 13, 2020
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
- Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread with over 1 million lives tragically lost so far. Living with the novel coronavirus has been a challenge like no other, but the world is adapting.
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Dominant Currencies and the Limits of Exchange Rate Flexibility
- Published: July 20, 2020
- Authors: Gustavo Adler, Gita Gopinath, Carolina Osorio-Buitron
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Toward an Integrated Policy Framework for Open Economies
- Published: July 13, 2020
- Authors: Tobias Adrian, Gita Gopinath
- Summary: While capital mobility provides many benefits, capital flows to emerging market and developing economies are often volatile and depend critically on global financial conditions.
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Fiscal Policies for a Transformed World
- Published: July 10, 2020
- Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Gita Gopinath
- Summary: Policymakers should tackle the rising poverty and inequality, as well as the structural weaknesses exposed by the crisis to better prepare for future shocks.
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Reopening from the Great Lockdown: Uneven and Uncertain Recovery
- Published: June 24, 2020
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
- Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic pushed economies into a Great Lockdown, which helped contain the virus and save lives, but also triggered the worst recession since the Great Depression.
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The Great Lockdown through a Global Lens
- Published: June 16, 2020
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
- Summary: The Great Lockdown is expected to play out in three phases, first as countries enter the lockdown, then as they exit, and finally as they escape the lockdown when there is a medical solution to the pandemic.
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The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression
- Published: April 14, 2020
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
- Summary: The world has changed dramatically in the three months since our last update of the World Economic Outlook in January. A rare disaster, a coronavirus pandemic, has resulted in a tragically large number of human lives being lost.
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An Early View of the Economic Impact of the Pandemic in 5 Charts
- Published: April 6, 2020
- Authors: John Bluedorn, Gita Gopinath, Damiano Sandri
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Limiting the Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus with Large Targeted Policies
- Published: March 9, 2020
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
- Summary: This health crisis will have a significant economic fallout, reflecting shocks to supply and demand different from past crises.
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Tentative Stabilization, Sluggish Recovery?
- Published: January 20, 2020
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
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2019 in Review: The Global Economy Explained in 5 Charts
- Published: December 18, 2019
- Authors: Gita Gopinath, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Malhar Nabar
- Summary: Global growth this year recorded its weakest pace since the global financial crisis a decade ago, reflecting common influences across countries and country-specific factors.
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The World Economy: Synchronized Slowdown, Precarious Outlook
- Published: October 15, 2019
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
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Taming the Currency Hype
- Published: August 21, 2019
- Authors: Gustavo Adler, Luis Cubeddu,, Gita Gopinath
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Sluggish Global Growth Calls for Supportive Policies
- Published: July 23, 2019
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
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Rebalancing the Global Economy: Some Progress but Challenges Ahead
- Published: July 17, 2019
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
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The Impact of US-China Trade Tensions
- Published: May 23, 2019
- Authors: Eugenio Cerutti, Gita Gopinath, Adil Mohommad
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The Global Economy: A Delicate Moment
- Published: April 9, 2019
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
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A Weakening Global Expansion Amid Growing Risks
- Published: January 21, 2019
- Authors: Gita Gopinath
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