COVID-19

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• Healing the Pandemic’s Economic Scars Demands Prompt Action
  • Published: May 17, 2022
  • Authors: Mehdi Benatiya Andaloussi, Lone Engbo Christiansen, Ashique Habib, Davide Malacrino
• Pandemic’s E-commerce Surge Proves Less Persistent, More Varied
  • Published: March 17, 2022
  • Authors: Joel Alcedo, Alberto Cavallo, Bricklin Dwyer, Prachi Mishra, Antonio Spilimbergo
• Rethinking Fiscal Policy and Debt for a Post-Pandemic World
  • Published: March 2, 2022
  • Authors: Gita Bhatt
• Europe’s Consumers are Sitting on 1 Trillion Euros in Pandemic Savings
  • Published: February 10, 2022
  • Authors: Thomas McGregor, Nujin Suphaphiphat, Frederik Toscani
• Why Jobs are Plentiful While Workers are Scarce
  • Published: January 19, 2022
  • Authors: Carlo Pizzinelli, Ippei Shibata
• Support for Africa’s Vaccine Production is Good for the World
  • Published: January 12, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: Robust and reliable vaccine capacity in Africa is a global public good, deserving of global support.
• Africa's Path to Recovery in an Uncertain World
  • Published: December 16, 2021
  • Summary: Op-Ed by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and President of Senegal Macky Sall
• In the Race to Vaccinate Sub-Saharan Africa Continues to Fall Behind
  • Published: November 22, 2021
  • Authors: Shushanik Hakobyan
• The Unequal COVID Saving and Wealth Surge
  • Published: November 9, 2021
  • Authors: Cian Allen, Cyril Rebillard
• Opinion: Time of major economic transformations in the Middle East
  • Published: October 27, 2021
  • Authors: Jihad Azour
• Longer Delivery Times Reflect Supply Chain Disruptions
  • Published: October 25, 2021
  • Authors: Parisa Kamali, Alex (Shiyao) Wang
• Europe’s Post-Pandemic Economic Challenges
  • Published: October 20, 2021
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer
  • Summary: Getting fiscal policy right will be harder than dealing with inflation.
• Fiscal Policy for an Uncertain World
  • Published: October 13, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Sandra Lizarazo, Paulo Medas, Roberto Piazza
• 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.
• Sharing the Recovery: SDR Channeling and a New Trust
  • Published: October 8, 2021
  • Authors: Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Uma Ramakrishnan
• Pacific Island Airlines: Flying on Empty?
  • Published: August 18, 2021
  • Authors: Vybhavi Balasundharam, Leni Hunter
• 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.
• How the Pandemic Widened Global Current Account Balances
  • Published: August 2, 2021
  • Authors: Martin Kaufman, Daniel Leigh
• Stepping Up to Meet Low-Income Countries’ Pandemic Recovery Needs
  • Published: July 26, 2021
  • Authors: Christian Mumssen, Seán Nolan
• The Resilience of Private Balance Sheets in Europe during COVID-19
  • Published: July 15, 2021
  • Authors: Estelle Xue Liu, Karim Foda, Sebastian Weber
• Urgent Action Needed to Address a Worsening ‘Two-Track’ Recovery
  • Published: July 7, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: By Kristalina Georgieva
• Getting Back to Growth
  • Published: June 10, 2021
  • Authors: Lone Engbo Christiansen, Ashique Habib, Margaux MacDonald, Davide Malacrino
• A New Commitment for Vaccine Equity and Defeating the Pandemic
  • Published: June 1, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: By Kristalina Georgieva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, David Malpass and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
• How to Reduce COVID-19’s Unequal Effects Across Workers
  • Published: June 1, 2021
  • Authors: Jorge Mondragon, Marina M. Tavares
• A Proposal to End the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Published: May 21, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Gita Gopinath, Ruchir Agarwal
• Economies in the Financial Spotlight in 2021
  • Published: May 6, 2021
• What Pandemics Mean for Robots and Inequality
  • Published: April 19, 2021
  • Authors: Tahsin Saadi Sedik, Jiae Yoo
• A COVID-19 Recovery Contribution
  • Published: April 16, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Michael Keen, Alexander Klemm, Paolo Mauro
• Short-term Shot and Long-term Healing for Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Published: April 15, 2021
  • Authors: Alejandro Werner, Takuji Komatsuzaki, Carlo Pizzinelli
• From Vaccines to V-Shaped Recovery in Europe
  • Published: April 14, 2021
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer
• Managing Divergent Recoveries
  • Published: April 6, 2021
  • Authors: Gita Gopinath
• Funding the Recovery of Low-income Countries After COVID
  • Published: April 5, 2021
  • Authors: Guillaume Chabert, Robert Gregory, Gaëlle Pierre
  • Summary: Many of the poorest countries in the world are facing the threat of a weak recovery, and setback in their development path.
• Giving Everyone a Fair Shot
  • Published: April 1, 2021
  • Authors: David Amaglobeli, Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro
• Slow-Healing Scars: The Pandemic’s Legacy
  • Published: March 31, 2021
  • Authors: Sonali Das, Philippe Wingender
• Working Out the Differences: Labor Policies for a Fairer Recovery
  • Published: March 31, 2021
  • Authors: John Bluedorn
• Confronting the Hazards of Rising Leverage
  • Published: March 29, 2021
  • Authors: Adolfo Barajas, Fabio Natalucci
• Commercial Real Estate at a Crossroads
  • Published: March 29, 2021
  • Authors: Andrea Deghi, Fabio Natalucci
• How European Banks Can Support the Recovery
  • Published: March 26, 2021
  • Authors: Mai Chi Dao, Aiko Mineshima, Srobona Mitra, Andreas (Andy) Jobst
• The Future of Asia: What a Difference a Year Can Make
  • Published: March 17, 2021
  • Authors: Chang Yong Rhee, Katsiaryna Svirydzenka
• How Countries Are Helping Small Businesses Survive COVID-19
  • Published: March 9, 2021
  • Authors: Kazuko Shirono, Esha Chhabra, Yingjie Fan
• Staying Afloat: New Measures to Support European Businesses
  • Published: March 2, 2021
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer, Laura Papi
• 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.
• Cooperation Critical to Reducing Divergent Paths to Recovery in Middle East and Central Asia
  • Published: February 4, 2021
  • Authors: Jihad Azour
• The Pre-Pandemic Debt Landscape—and Why It Matters
  • Published: February 1, 2021
  • Authors: Xuehui Han, Paulo Medas, Susan Yang
• Government Support Is Vital as Countries Race to Vaccinate
  • Published: January 28, 2021
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Raphael Lam, Paolo Mauro, Mehdi Raissi
• What the Continued Global Uncertainty Means for You
  • Published: January 19, 2021
  • Authors: Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom, Davide Furceri
• Top 10 Blogs of 2020
  • Published: January 4, 2021
  • Authors: The Editors
  • Summary: Welcome to 2021. Before we step too far into the new year, the editors at IMFBlog invite you to reflect on what the world went through in 2020.
• Reclaiming Our World Post-2020
  • Published: December 22, 2020
  • Authors: Atish Rex Ghosh
• Window for Change
  • Published: December 1, 2020
  • Authors: Gita Bhatt
• How the Rich Get Richer
  • Published: November 30, 2020
  • Authors: Davide Malacrino
• Data Disruption: The Impact of COVID-19 on Inflation Measurement
  • Published: November 10, 2020
  • Authors: Marshall Reinsdorf
• The Crisis is Not Over, Keep Spending (Wisely)
  • Published: November 2, 2020
  • Authors: Oya Celasun, Margaux MacDonald, Lone Engbo Christiansen
• How COVID-19 Will Increase Inequality in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
  • Published: October 29, 2020
  • Authors: Gabriela Cugat, Futoshi Narita
• Emerging and Frontier Markets: Policy Tools in Times of Financial Stress
  • Published: October 23, 2020
  • Authors: Dimitris Drakopoulos, Rohit Goel, Fabio Natalucci, Evan Papageorgiou
• Pandemic Persistence Clouds Latin America and Caribbean Recovery
  • Published: October 22, 2020
  • Authors: Samuel Pienknagura, Alejandro Werner, Jorge Roldós
  • Summary: COVID-19 has hit Latin America and the Caribbean harder than other parts of the world, both in human and economic terms.
• Europe Needs to Maintain Strong Policy Support to Sustain the Recovery
  • Published: October 21, 2020
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer
• Fiscal Policy for an Unprecedented Crisis
  • Published: October 14, 2020
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Paulo Medas, John Ralyea, Elif Ture
• 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.
• COVID’s Impact in Real Time: Finding Balance Amid the Crisis
  • Published: October 8, 2020
  • Authors: Francesco Grigoli, Damiano Sandri
• Public Investment for the Recovery
  • Published: October 5, 2020
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro, Catherine Pattillo, Raphael Espinoza
• Mission Impossible? Can Fragile States Increase Tax Revenues?
  • Published: September 25, 2020
  • Authors: Bernardin Akitoby, Jiro Honda, Keyra Primus
• Supporting Migrants and Remittances as COVID-19 Rages On
  • Published: September 11, 2020
  • Authors: Roland Kangni Kpodar
• Tourism Trauma and COVID-19
  • Published: August 20, 2020
  • Authors: Cyril Rebillard
• Top 10 Blogs on COVID-19
  • Published: August 13, 2020
  • Authors: The Editors
• COVID-19 Response in Emerging Market Economies: Conventional Policies and Beyond
  • Published: August 6, 2020
  • Authors: Martin Mühleisen, Tryggvi Gudmundsson, Hélène Poirson Ward
• Global Imbalances and the COVID-19 Crisis
  • Published: August 4, 2020
  • Authors: Martin Kaufman, Daniel Leigh
• Unemployment in Today’s Recession Compared to the Global Financial Crisis
  • Published: July 23, 2020
  • Authors: Ippei Shibata
• The Next Phase of the Crisis: Further Action Needed for a Resilient Recovery
  • Published: July 16, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• Toward a More Resilient Europe
  • Published: July 13, 2020
  • Authors: Poul M. Thomsen
• Digital Financial Inclusion in the Times of COVID-19
  • Published: July 1, 2020
  • Authors: Ulric Eriksson von Allmen, Purva Khera, Sumiko Ogawa, Ratna Sahay
• Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean: An Intensifying Pandemic
  • Published: June 26, 2020
  • Authors: Alejandro Werner
• Financial Conditions Have Eased, but Insolvencies Loom Large
  • Published: June 25, 2020
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Fabio Natalucci
• You’ve Got Money: Mobile Payments Help People During the Pandemic
  • Published: June 22, 2020
  • Authors: Sonja Davidovic, Delphine Prady, Herve Tourpe
• Facing the crisis: the role of tax in dealing with COVID-19
  • Published: June 16, 2020
• Combating COVID-19: How Should Banking Supervisors Respond?
  • Published: June 15, 2020
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
• Courage under Fire: Policy Responses in Emerging Market and Developing Economies to the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Published: June 3, 2020
  • Authors: Martin Mühleisen, Vladimir Klyuev
• How the Great Lockdown Saved Lives
  • Published: June 2, 2020
  • Authors: Pragyan Deb, Davide Furceri, Jonathan D. Ostry, Nour Tawk
• A Turning Point for Political Economy
  • Published: June 1, 2020
  • Authors: Gita Bhatt
• Keeping Economic Data Flowing During COVID-19
  • Published: May 26, 2020
  • Authors: Louis Marc Ducharme, James Tebrake, Zaijin Zhan
• Africa’s Hour of Need
  • Published: May 22, 2020
  • Authors: Abebe Aemro Selassie
• Halt Bank Dividends and Buybacks Now
  • Published: May 22, 2020
  • Summary: By Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director
• COVID-19 Worsens Pre-existing Financial Vulnerabilities
  • Published: May 22, 2020
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Fabio Natalucci
• Tracking the $9 Trillion Global Fiscal Support to Fight COVID-19
  • Published: May 20, 2020
  • Authors: Bryn Battersby, Elif Ture, Raphael Lam
• Tracking Trade During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Published: May 14, 2020
  • Authors: Diego Cerdeiro, Andras Komaromi, Yang Liu, Mamoon Saeed
• Emerging from the Great Lockdown in Asia and Europe
  • Published: May 12, 2020
  • Authors: Poul M. Thomsen
  • Summary: Several countries in Asia and Europe, where the COVID-19 outbreak appears to have peaked, are gradually reopening their economies.
• State-Owned Enterprises in the Time of COVID-19
  • Published: May 7, 2020
• COVID-19 Pandemic and the Caribbean: Navigating Uncharted Waters
  • Published: April 29, 2020
  • Authors: Krishna Srinivasan, Sònia Muñoz, Varapat Chensavasdijai
• A Post-Coronavirus Recovery in Asia—Extending a “Whatever it Takes” Lifeline to Small Businesses
  • Published: April 23, 2020
  • Authors: Kenneth Kang
• Economic Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Time of COVID-19
  • Published: April 16, 2020
  • Authors: Alejandro Werner
• COVID-19 Pandemic and the Asia-Pacific Region: Lowest Growth Since the 1960s
  • Published: April 15, 2020
• COVID-19 Crisis Poses Threat to Financial Stability
  • Published: April 14, 2020
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Fabio Natalucci
• An Early View of the Economic Impact of the Pandemic in 5 Charts
  • Published: April 6, 2020
  • Authors: John Bluedorn, Gita Gopinath, Damiano Sandri
• Economic Policies for the COVID-19 War
  • Published: April 1, 2020
  • Authors: Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, Paolo Mauro, Antonio Spilimbergo, Jeromin Zettelmeyer
  • Summary: This blog is part of a special series on the response to the coronavirus.
• Maintaining Banking System Safety amid the COVID-19 Crisis
  • Published: March 31, 2020
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Aditya Narain
• Europe’s COVID-19 Crisis and the Fund’s Response
  • Published: March 30, 2020
  • Authors: Poul M. Thomsen
• COVID-19 Pandemic and Latin America and the Caribbean: Time for Strong Policy Actions
  • Published: March 19, 2020
  • Authors: Alejandro Werner
• Monetary and Financial Stability During the Coronavirus Outbreak
  • Published: March 11, 2020
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian
  • Summary: This blog is part of a special series on the response to the coronavirus.
• 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.
• Fiscal Policies to Protect People During the Coronavirus Outbreak
  • Published: March 5, 2020
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro
• Potential Impact of the Coronavirus Epidemic: What We Know and What We Can Do
  • Published: March 4, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva

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