A Turning Point for Political Economy
By Gita Bhatt
Five months ago we set out to write in this issue of Finance & Development about political economy—how politics affects the economy and the economy affects […]
Equity Investors Must Pay More Attention to Climate Change Physical Risk
By Felix Suntheim and Jérôme Vandenbussche
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The damage from the 2011 floods in Thailand amounted to around 10 […]
Keeping Economic Data Flowing During COVID-19
By Louis Marc Ducharme, James Tebrake, and Zaijin Zhan
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Accurate and timely economic data are […]
Chart of the WeekTracking the $9 Trillion Global Fiscal Support to Fight COVID-19
By Bryn Battersby, W. Raphael Lam, and Elif Ture
Governments have put forward swift and significant emergency lifelines to protect people in response to the pandemic. […]
Chart of the WeekTracking Trade During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Diego Cerdeiro, Andras Komaromi, Yang Liu, and Mamoon Saeed
With the current fast-changing developments, policy makers need to know what is happening to the economy in real time, […]
How Pandemics Leave the Poor Even Farther Behind
By Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Jonathan D. Ostry
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The COVID-19 crisis is now widely seen as the greatest economic […]