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Something New Out of Africa: A Global Player
By Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund The sense of African energy and dynamism that I described during my visit to Kenya is reinforced strongly here in South...
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How Emerging Markets Can Get Their Groove Back
By Kalpana Kochhar and Roberto Perrelli (Version in Español and عربي) After a decade of high growth and a swift rebound after the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, emerging markets are...
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Transitions to Financial Stability: A Bumpy Ride
By José Viñals (Versions in 中文, Français, 日本語, Русский, and Español) The global financial system faces several major transitions along the road to greater financial stability. These transitions will...
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Still Some Hurdles On The Fiscal Path
By Martine Guerguil (Versions in 中文, Français, 日本語, Русский, and Español) Five years into the crisis, the fiscal landscape remains challenging. On the positive side, deficit-cutting efforts and the...
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Africa’s Success: More Than A Resource Story
By Antoinette M. Sayeh When meeting with people outside Africa, I’m often asked whether Africa’s growth takeoff since the mid-1990s has been simply a “commodity story”—a ride fueled by windfall gains...
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Are Emerging Markets Adjusting to a New Normal?
By Aseel Almansour, Aqib Aslam, John Bluedorn and Rupa Duttagupta Emerging markets have grown at a remarkable pace through most of the 2000s. They even rebounded strongly from the Great Recession,...
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Are Emerging Markets Still On the Receiving End?
By Aseel Almansour, Aqib Aslam, John Bluedorn and Rupa Duttagupta (Version in Français, Русский, 中文 and 日本語) The recent slowdown in emerging market growth is fueling a growing mania across markets and...
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Socrates & the Pope: Overheard at the IMF’s Spring Meetings
By IMFdirect editors Socrates’ famous method to develop his students’ intellect was to question them relentlessly in an unending search for contradictions and the truth—or at the very least, a great...
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Emerging Market Corporate Sector Debt: A Stitch in Time Could Save Billions
By Julian Chow and Shamir Tanna Much has been said lately about growing private sector debt in emerging market economies. In our recent analysis, we examined the corporate sector in a number of...
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Slowdown in Emerging Markets: Not Just a Hiccup
By Evridiki Tsounta and Kalpana Kochhar Emerging market economies have been experiencing strong growth, with annual growth for the period 2000-12 averaging 4¾ percent per year—a full percentage point...
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Now Is a Good Time to Invest in Infrastructure
By Abdul Abiad, Davide Furceri, and Petia Topalova Infrastructure is the backbone of well-functioning economies. Unfortunately, that backbone is becoming increasingly brittle in a number of advanced...
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Heat Wave: Rising Financial Risks in the United States
By Serkan Arslanalp, David Jones, and Sanjay Hazarika Six years after the start of the global financial crisis, low interest rates and other central bank policies in the United States remain critical...
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Portfolio Investment in Emerging Markets: More Than Just Ebb and Flow
By Evan Papageorgiou When the U.S. Federal Reserve first mentioned in 2013 the prospect of a cutback in its bond buying program, markets had a “taper tantrum.” Many emerging markets saw large increases...
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Emerging Markets & Volatility: Lessons from the Taper Tantrum
By Ratna Sahay and Preya Sharma You may hear a sigh of relief from emerging market watchers as we approach the end of the year. Yet, against the backdrop of a prolonged period of low interest rates in...
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Managing House Price Booms in Emerging Markets
By Min Zhu (Versions in 中文) For the past decade, house prices have steadily increased in the vast majority of the 30 countries that make up the IMF’s House Price Index for Emerging Markets released...
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Battling Global Unemployment: Too Soon to Declare Victory
By Prakash Loungani (Version in Français) Seven years after the onset of the Great Recession, the global unemployment rate has returned to its pre-crisis level: the jobless rate fell to 5.6% in 2014;...
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Global Economy Faces Strong and Complex Cross Currents
By Olivier Blanchard The world economy is facing strong and complex cross currents. On the one hand, major economies are benefiting from the decline in the price of oil. On the other, in many parts...
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Time to Act on the G-20 Agenda: The Global Economy Will Thank You
By Christine Lagarde (Versions in 中文, Français, 日本語, Русский, Türk, and Español) Implementation, investment, and inclusiveness: these three policy goals will dominate the G-20 agenda this year,...
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Warning—Falling (U.S. Treasury) Objects
By Nigel Chalk and Jarkko Turunen The remarkable collapse in the price of oil—a key global price that has virtually halved in the space of just a few months—has received a lot of attention lately....
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Growth Dividend from Stabilizing Fiscal Policies
By Xavier Debrun (Versions in عربي, 中文, Français, Русский, 日本語and Español) Anyone can easily picture an economy where instability, stagnation and runaway government deficits converge into a perfect...
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