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• Towards an Inclusive, Equitable and Sustainable National Pension System in Iraq
  • Published: April 30, 2024
  • Summary: A pension system is at the heart of social protection. By ensuring income security for older persons and other vulnerable groups, it prevents poverty, reduces inequality, and facilitates consumption smoothing.
• Enhancing Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community: Suggested Policies and Structural Reforms
  • Published: April 25, 2024
  • Summary: The Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) has been hit hard by two shocks, just a few years apart. The first shock in 2015–16 was triggered by a sharp decline in oil prices—CEMAC’s main export proceeds and revenue source—just when many of these countries were ramping up public inve
• The Big Push for Transformation through Climate and Development: Recommendations of the High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery and Growth
  • Published: February 28, 2023
  • Summary: The High-Level Advisory Group (HLAG) on Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery and Growth came together to provide policy analysis and practical proposals for actions that could help countries secure a strong recovery from the pandemic and a successful green transition.
• Exploring Multilateral Platforms for Cross-Border Payments
  • Published: January 18, 2023
  • Summary: This report provides an assessment of whether and how multilateral platforms could bring meaningful improvements to the cross-border payments ecosystem.
• Subsidies, Trade, and International Cooperation
  • Published: April 22, 2022
  • Summary: The international organizations (IOs) authoring this report can strengthen their individual and joint work to support governments in this endeavor.
• How to Implement Strategic Foresight (and Why)
  • Published: December 22, 2021
  • Series: IMF How To Notes
  • Authors: Alberto Behar; Sandile Hlatshwayo
  • Summary: This note explains the value of strategic foresight and provides implementation advice based on the IMF’s experience with scenario planning and policy gaming. Section II provides an overview of strategic foresight and some of its tools.
• Guidance Note For Developing Government Local Currency Bond Markets
  • Published: March 17, 2021
  • Summary: This guidance note was prepared by International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group staff under a project undertaken with the support of grants from the Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening Initiative, (FIRST).