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Designing Labor Policies to Foster Inclusive Growth in Emerging Markets
By Romain Duval and Prakash Loungani Emerging market economies have enjoyed good growth in recent decades but are still far from closing gaps in living standards with advanced economies. Emerging...
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How to Help, Not Hinder Global Growth
By Christine Lagarde As the G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors gather this week in Fukuoka, they can take inspiration from their host city. Known as Japan’s “startup city,” Fukuoka has...
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A Global Picture of Public Wealth
By Jason Harris, Abdelhak Senhadji, and Alexander F. Tieman Español, Português Our new data on government assets shows that when governments know what they own, they can make better use of the assets...
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Tariff Shocks: The Role of Value Chains in Europe
By Raju Huidrom, Carlos Mulas-Granados, Laura Papi, and Emil Stavrev (Español, Português) The Czech Republic exports only a small number of cars and car parts directly to the United States, but it’s...
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Sluggish Global Growth Calls for Supportive Policies
By Gita Gopinath عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский In our July update of the World Economic Outlook we are revising downward our projection for global growth to 3.2 percent in 2019...
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Chart of the WeekThe Threat of Inequality of Opportunity
By Shekhar Aiyar and Christian Ebeke There are clashing views on the relationship between income inequality and growth. Some have pointed to at least some measure of inequality as a necessary outcome...
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By IMFBlog In 2020, the IMF plans to assess the stability of twelve financial systems. Seven assessments are of jurisdictions with systemically important financial sectors (Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong...
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Chart of the WeekSouth Africa: Bridging the Income Divide
By IMFBlog South Africa suffers among the highest levels of inequality in the world. As our Chart of the Week shows, the country’s wealth is concentrated in the upper levels of society. The top 20...
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COVID-19 Response in Emerging Market Economies: Conventional Policies and Beyond
By Martin Mühleisen, Tryggvi Gudmundsson, and Hélène Poirson Ward عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emerging market economies far...
View ArticleEconomies in the Financial Spotlight in 2021
By IMFBlog Throughout 2020 and into 2021, the global financial system withstood the effects of the global pandemic and economic lockdowns due to unprecedented policy support. Strong financial systems...
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