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The Trillion Dollar Question: Who Owns Emerging Market Government Debt
By Serkan Arslanalp and Takahiro Tsuda (Version in Español, Français, Português, Русский, 中文 and 日本語) There are a trillion reasons to care about who owns emerging market debt. That’s how much money...
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Slowdown in Emerging Markets: Not Just a Hiccup
By Evridiki Tsounta and Kalpana Kochhar (Versions in Español) Emerging market economies have been experiencing strong growth, with annual growth for the period 2000-12 averaging 4¾ percent per year—a...
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Euro Area – Q&A on QE
By Reza Moghadam and Ranjit Teja As inflation has sunk in the euro area, talk of quantitative easing (QE)—and misgivings about it—have soared. Some think QE is not needed; others that it would not...
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Legacies, Clouds and Uncertainties
By Olivier Blanchard (Versions in Français, español, 中文, Русский, 日本語) The recovery continues, but it is weak and uneven. You have now seen the basic numbers from our latest projections in the October...
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What Advanced Economies Can Do to Rise Above the “New Mediocre”
By Era Dabla-Norris, Vikram Haksar, and Kalpana Kochhar Global growth remains anemic more than five years after the global financial crisis. If nothing is done, the prospect of settling into a “new...
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An Imbalance in Global Banks’ Dollar Funding
By John Caparusso, Yingyuan Chen, Hideo Hashimoto, David Jones, Will Kerry and Aki Yokoyama June 12, 2018 Versions in Español, Deutsche, Français, 日本語, Português The US Treasury is issuing more...
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By IMFBlog September 11, 2018 A guard stands outside former US investment bank Lehman brothers (photo: Frances M. Roberts/Newscom) The tenth anniversary of the collapse of US investment bank Lehman...
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The Wealth of Nations: Governments Can Better Manage What They Own and Owe
By Vitor Gaspar, Jason Harris, and Alexander Tieman October 10, 2018 عربي,中文, Español, Français, Baˈhasa indoneˈsia, 日本語, Português, Русский A firefighter in Auckland, New Zealand: when governments...
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Transparency Makes Central Banks More Effective and Trusted
By Tobias Adrian, Ghiath Shabsigh, and Ashraf Khan عربي, 中文, Español, 日本語, Русский The role and mandates of central banks have become broader and more complex since the 2008 global financial crisis....
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The Resilience of Private Balance Sheets in Europe during COVID-19
By Estelle Xue Liu, Karim Foda, and Sebastian Weber Español, Français, Português One of the positive surprises about last year’s recession is how little damage it inflicted on average household and...
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