## Global Financial Stability Report, April 2012: The Quest for Lasting Stability

_Global Financial Stability Report, April 18, 2012_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 18, 2012
- Series: Global Financial Stability Report
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616352479.082

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### Overview and principal assessments
- Assesses changes in risks to financial stability over the past six months.
- Focuses on sovereign vulnerabilities, risks stemming from private sector deleveraging, and the continued resilience of emerging markets.
- Probes implications of recent reforms in the financial system for market perception of safe assets.
- Investigates the growing public and private costs of increased longevity risk from aging populations.

### Major analytical themes
- Sovereign vulnerabilities
  - Examination of changes in sovereign risk that affect financial stability (assessment period: past six months).
- Private sector deleveraging
  - Analysis of risks stemming from private sector efforts to reduce leverage and their implications for financial markets and growth.
- Emerging markets resilience
  - Assessment of the continued resilience of emerging markets amid global financial strains.
- Safe assets and financial reform
  - Probing how recent financial system reforms affect market perception and demand for safe assets.
- Longevity risk and aging populations
  - Investigation into growing public and private costs associated with increased longevity risk.

### Publication metadata and key statistics
- Publication date: April 18, 2012
- Pages: 172
- Volume: 2012
- Issue: 001
- Series: Global Financial Stability Report No. 2012/001
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616352479.082
- Stock No: GFSREA2012001
- ISBN: 9781616352479
- ISSN: 1729-701X

*International Monetary Fund. Global Financial Stability Report, April 2012: The Quest for Lasting Stability*

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