Monetary policy

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• Good Policies (and Good Luck) Helped Emerging Economies Better Resist Shocks
  • Published: October 6, 2025
  • Authors: Marijn Bolhuis, Arindam Roy, Patrick Schneider, Zhao Zhang
  • Summary: Stronger fiscal and monetary policy frameworks and more developed local currency debt markets have supported emerging market resilience
• Fed Rate Cuts May Help Revive Bond Flows to Emerging, Developing Economies
  • Published: September 5, 2024
  • Authors: Paula Arias, Robin Koepke
  • Summary: Some higher risk countries still face high costs for selling foreign-currency denominated debt to investors after major central banks raised interest rates
• Housing is One Reason Not All Countries Feel Same Pinch of Higher Interest Rates
  • Published: April 8, 2024
  • Authors: Mehdi Benatiya Andaloussi, Nina Biljanovska, Alessia De Stefani, Rui C. Mano
  • Summary: Effects may be delayed in some countries: if interest rates remain higher for longer, homeowners will likely feel their effects as mortgage rates adjust
• Emerging Markets Navigate Global Interest Rate Volatility
  • Published: January 31, 2024
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Fabio Natalucci, Jason Wu
  • Summary: Major emerging markets have shown resilience to global rate gyrations, but more challenging times could be ahead
• US Commercial Real Estate Remains a Risk Despite Investor Hopes for Soft Landing
  • Published: January 18, 2024
  • Authors: Andrea Deghi, Fabio Natalucci, Mahvash S. Qureshi
  • Summary: One of the steepest price declines in at least a half century heightens risks to investors and lenders
• Higher-for-Longer Interest Rate Environment is Squeezing More Borrowers
  • Published: October 10, 2023
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian
  • Summary: Elevated inflation means central banks may have to keep policy rates higher in a way that stretches the capacity of borrowers to repay debt
• Europe Should Tighten Monetary Policy Further
  • Published: July 21, 2023
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer, Luis Brandão-Marques
  • Summary: Higher interest rates soon would prevent more economic pain later
• African Currencies Are Under Pressure Amid Higher-for-Longer US Interest Rates
  • Published: May 15, 2023
  • Authors: Laurent Kemoe, Moustapha Mbohou Mama, Hamza Mighri, Saad Quayyum
  • Summary: Weaker currencies make the fight to curb inflation harder given the region’s dependence on imports
• Interest Rates Likely to Return Toward Pre-Pandemic Levels When Inflation is Tamed
  • Published: April 10, 2023
  • Authors: Jean-Marc Natal, Philip Barrett
  • Summary: How close will depend on the persistence of public debt, on how climate policies are financed and on the extent of deglobalization
• New Worries for Central Bankers
  • Published: March 1, 2023
  • Authors: Gita Bhatt
  • Summary: This issue of F&D explores how inflation dynamics have forced a re-think of how central banks conduct monetary policy
• How Africa Can Navigate Growing Monetary Policy Challenges
  • Published: April 4, 2022
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Gaston Gelos, David Hofman
  • Summary: Tools such as foreign exchange intervention can ease the effects of shocks but need to be carefully weighed against potential longer-term costs.
• Three Policy Priorities for a Robust Recovery
  • Published: February 16, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: We must work together to end the pandemic, navigate monetary tightening and shift focus to fiscal sustainability.
• Taming Market Power Could (also) Help Monetary Policy
  • Published: July 21, 2021
  • Authors: Romain Duval, Davide Furceri, Marina M. Tavares
  • Summary: Some central banks are currently debating whether to tighten monetary policy to fight inflationary pressures, after having eased decisively in response to the COVID-19 shock.
• Legally Speaking, is Digital Money Really Money?
  • Published: January 14, 2021
  • Authors: Catalina Margulis, Arthur Rossi
• Monetary Policy for all? Inequality and the Conduct of Monetary Policy
  • Published: September 30, 2020
  • Authors: Niels-Jakob Hansen, Alessandro Lin, Rui C. Mano
• Assessing Global Imbalances: The Nuts and Bolts
  • Published: June 26, 2017
  • Authors: Maurice Obstfeld
  • Summary: Current account imbalances can be healthy or a sign of macroeconomic and financial stress—which makes their evaluation tricky. In line with its mandate of promoting international monetary cooperation, the IMF conducts annual external assessments for the world’s largest economies. The objective is to alert the global community to potential risks that countries need to address together.
• The ECB's Negative Rate Policy Has Been Effective but Faces Limits
  • Published: August 10, 2016
  • Authors: Huidan Lin, Andreas (Andy) Jobst
• Tharman Sees "Greater Global Policy Resolve"
  • Published: October 14, 2012
  • Authors: The Editors
• Latin America: What’s Ahead in 2012?
  • Published: January 4, 2012
  • Authors: Nicolás Eyzaguirre
• Making the Most of Bad Situations
  • Published: December 13, 2011
  • Authors: Hugh Bredenkamp
• Union Jack: Be Nimble, Be Quick
  • Published: August 1, 2011
  • Authors: Ajai Chopra
• Macro-Prudential Policies: Putting the “Big Picture” into Financial Sector Regulation
  • Published: October 22, 2010
  • Authors: John Lipsky

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