Engendering the Recovery: Budgeting with Women in Mind
By Antoinette Sayeh, Jiro Honda, Carolina Renteria, Vincent Tang
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International Women’s Day, March 8, marks a year […]
The Evidence Is in on Negative Interest Rate Policies
By Luis Brandao-Marques and Gaston Gelos
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Interest rates are low, and “lower for longer” has become something […]
Staying Afloat: New Measures to Support European Businesses
By Alfred Kammer and Laura Papi
Much of Europe rang in the start of 2021 with new lockdowns and weak economic activity. This same period saw the roll […]
The Haves and Have-nots Of the Digital Age
By Gita Bhatt
Accelerated by the pandemic, the digital future is coming at us faster than ever before, and maybe faster than we can imagine. In this issue of Finance & […]
Divergent Recoveries in Asia: History is not Destiny
by Davide Furceri, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Anthony C.K. Tan
Asian economies are performing better than expected. In the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook Update, we upgraded our […]
Structural Factors and Central Bank Credibility Limit Inflation Risks
After ending last year with unexpectedly strong vaccine success and hope that the pandemic and economic distress it caused would recede, we woke up to the reality of new […]
Public and Private Money Can Coexist in the Digital Age
By Tobias Adrian and Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli
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We value innovation and diversity—including in money. In the same day, we might […]
Why Climate Change Vulnerability Is Bad for Sovereign Credit Ratings
By Serhan Cevik and João Tovar Jalles
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Climate change has made the world a riskier place.
The […]
Chart of the WeekWhen it Comes to Services vs. Manufacturing, Words Matter
By Reda Cherif and Fuad Hasanov
Efforts to revive national manufacturing sectors get a lot of airtime. After all, the sector propelled many East and South East Asian economies—the so-called “East Asia Miracle”—and was […]