An Important Starting Point—with One Gap
Guest post by David H. Romer, University of California, Berkeley, and co-host of the Conference on Macro and Growth Policies in the Wake of the Crisis I had one major source of unhappiness with last...
View ArticleThe Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2014
By Alejandro Werner (Version in Español, Português) Looking to the year ahead, how do we see the global economic landscape, and what will this mean for our region? This question is especially on...
View ArticleIndia’s Investment Slowdown: The High Cost of Economic Policy Uncertainty
By Rahul Anand and Volodymyr Tulin India, after witnessing spectacular growth averaging above 9 percent over the past decade, has started to slow in the last few years. The slump in infrastructure and...
View ArticleMind the Dragon: Latin America’s Exposure to China
By Bertrand Gruss and Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos (version in Español and Português) China is still a distant and exotic country in the mind of many people in Latin America. Yet, with the Asian giant...
View ArticleEmerging 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...
View ArticleChart of the WeekTop 5 Charts of Summer
By IMFBlog Español, Português Our data nerds have been hard at work over the summer and we have taken a dive into the numbers beneath the surface of the daily headlines. Housing prices, powerful...
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