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By Jiro Honda and Hiroaki Miyamoto In the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers around the world are undertaking fiscal stimulus—a combination of spending increases and tax reductions—to...
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By IMFBlog The pandemic has altered people’s lives in both enormous and small ways. Our editors have picked the top recent blogs that dig into the details of what COVID-19 means for people: the impact...
View ArticleIMF Lending During the Pandemic and Beyond
By Robert Gregory, Huidan Lin, and Martin Mühleisen عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский In the face of unprecedented uncertainty and the severe economic impact triggered by COVID-19,...
View ArticleEurope Needs to Maintain Strong Policy Support to Sustain the Recovery
By Alfred Kammer Español, Français, Português The pandemic is exacting a heavy toll on Europe. More than 240,000 people have lost their lives. Millions have suffered the illness themselves, the loss...
View ArticleEmerging and Frontier Markets: Policy Tools in Times of Financial Stress
By Dimitris Drakopoulos, Rohit Goel, Fabio Natalucci, and Evan Papageorgiou عربي, 中文, Español, Français After the unprecedented hit to economic activity in emerging market economies from the COVID-19...
View ArticleTop 10 Blogs of 2020
By IMFBlog 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. As much as we would like to turn the page on...
View ArticleAn Asynchronous and Divergent Recovery May Put Financial Stability at Risk
By Tobias Adrian عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский After enduring a tumultuous 2020, the global economy is finally emerging from the worst phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit...
View ArticleFrom Vaccines to V-Shaped Recovery in Europe
By Alfred Kammer Español, Français, Português One year into the pandemic, Europe finds itself at another turning point. New waves of infection are hitting the continent, requiring new lockdowns. But,...
View ArticleShort-term Shot and Long-term Healing for Latin America and the Caribbean
By Alejandro Werner, Takuji Komatsuzaki, and Carlo Pizzinelli Español, Português Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean recovered briskly in the second half of 2020, yet still more slowly than the...
View ArticleThe Policymaker’s Trilemma
By Abebe Aemro Selassie and Andrew Tiffin 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский Imagine you’re a policymaker in sub-Saharan Africa. You’ve been charged with lifting your country out of the...
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