Shushanik Hakobyan

Shushanik Hakobyan is a Senior Economist in the Multilateral Surveillance Division of the IMF’s Research Department. She previously worked in the African Department, covering regional surveillance, as well as Lesotho and Rwanda. Her research interests include trade policy, trade and labor markets, and preferential market access. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Canadian Journal of Economics. Prior to joining the IMF in 2017, she was an Assistant Professor at Fordham University, Georgetown University, and Middlebury College. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia.

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• Policy Actions Can Reinforce Growth Progress in Many G20 Economies
  • Published: November 19, 2025
  • Authors: Nicolas Fernandez-Arias, Shushanik Hakobyan
  • Summary: 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
• In the Race to Vaccinate Sub-Saharan Africa Continues to Fall Behind
  • Published: November 22, 2021
  • Authors: Shushanik Hakobyan

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