## Global Financial Stability Report, April 2005: Market Developments and Issues

_Global Financial Stability Report, April 5, 2005_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 5, 2005
- Series: Global Financial Stability Report
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589064188.082

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### Summary and Scope
- The Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) provides expert and up-to-date analysis of global capital flows that play a critical role in world economic growth and Financial stability.
- The report focuses on current conditions in global Financial markets, analyzing Financial imbalances and structural issues that could pose risks to stability and sustained market access by emerging market borrowers.
- Along with the IMF’s semiannual World Economic Outlook, the GFSR is a key vehicle for communicating the IMF’s multilateral surveillance.
- The GFSR draws out the Financial ramifications of economic imbalances highlighted by the WEO, serving as an indispensable companion publication.

### Major Themes and Topics Covered
- Market Developments and Issues in global Financial markets.
- Analysis of Financial imbalances and structural vulnerabilities affecting market stability.
- Risks to sustained market access by emerging market borrowers.
- Interactions between global capital flows, economic growth, and Financial stability.

### Subjects and Keywords (as listed)
- Subjects: Corporate governance, Credit, Economic sectors, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Hedge funds, Labor, Money, Pension spending, Pensions
- Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, bond, Caribbean, Corporate governance, Credit, Emerging and frontier financial markets, emerging market corporate, Europe, GFSR, Global, Hedge funds, high-yield market investor base, investment risk, investor, longevity risk, market, market development, market participant, Middle East, Pension spending, Pensions, price movement, risk profile, yield

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## References

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