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Downturn After Boom: Slow Credit Growth in Middle East, North Africa
By Masood Ahmed In the midst of an early and uncertain economic recovery from the global crisis, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have been experiencing a sharp slowdown in...
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Reviving Credit Growth in the Caucasus and Central Asia: What Can...
By Masood Ahmed The global financial crisis has led to mounting stress in the banking systems of most countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Private sector credit growth has slowed sharply and...
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Is There a Silver Lining to Sluggish Credit Growth in the Gulf Countries?
By Masood Ahmed (Version in عربي ) Bank credit has been very slow to pickup in the six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). How big a problem is this for their economic recovery? Sluggish...
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Macroprudential Policy—Filling the Black Hole
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Old Dilemmas, New Challenges: Monetary Policy and Capital Flows into Emerging...
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Dealing with Uncertain Economic Times: The Outlook for Asia
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Taking Away the Punch Bowl: Lessons from the Booms and Busts in Emerging Europe
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Macroprudential Policy—Filling the Black Hole
By José Viñals When the global financial system was thrown into crisis, many policymakers were shocked to discover a gaping hole in their policy toolkit. They have since made significant progress in...
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Old Dilemmas, New Challenges: Monetary Policy and Capital Flows into Emerging...
By Leslie Lipschitz and Bas Bakker For all the talk today about capital flows into emerging economies, the topic has actually been debated for many years within the IMF. For a decade or more, we have...
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Dealing with Uncertain Economic Times: The Outlook for Asia
By Anoop Singh (Versions in 中文, 日本語) Recent large equity sell-offs across Asia and safe haven flows into Japan illustrate perfectly the region’s vulnerabilities to further global shocks. While the...
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Taking Away the Punch Bowl: Lessons from the Booms and Busts in Emerging Europe
By Bas B. Bakker and Christoph Klingen With all eyes on the euro area, it is easy to forget that only a few years ago the emerging economies of Europe, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, went through a...
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How Policy Makers Can Better Predict a Downturn – and Prepare
By Claudio Raddatz and Jay Surti October 3, 2017 Versions in عربي (Arabic) 文, (Chinese), Español (Spanish), Français (French),日本語 (Japanese), Русский (Russian) A trading floor in Singapore....
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Improving Financial Stability in China
By Ratna Sahay and James P. Walsh December 6, 2017 Version in عربي (Arabic), 中文(Chinese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), 日本語 (Japanese), Русский (Russian) A man walks past a bank branch in...
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Propping Up the Chinese Economy: Credit versus Fiscal Stimulus
By Sophia Chen and Lev Ratnovski December 13, 2017 Version in 中文 (Chinese), Español (Spanish), 日本語 (Japanese) Construction work Qingyuan , Guangdong, China : Fiscal stimulus is a powerful tool for...
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Chart of the Week: When High Yield Goes Boom
By Divya Kirti June 26, 2018 Versions in Español, Português A credit boom can be fueled by excessive optimism among investors (photo: Nick White/Newscom) We’ve all heard about good cholesterol and bad...
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Shifting Tides: Policy Challenges and Opportunities for the G-20
By Christine Lagarde July 18, 2018 Versions in عربي, 中文, Español, Français 日本語, Português, Русский Cars to be shipped abroad, Jiangsu, China: trade tariffs have gone into effect and export orders have...
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Lasting Effects: The Global Economic Recovery 10 Years After the Crisis
By Wenjie Chen, Mico Mrkaic, and Malhar Nabar October 3, 2018 عربي,中文, Español, Français, Baˈhasa indoneˈsia, 日本語, Português, Русский Woman cleaning in Berlin, Germany: the 2008 global financial crisis...
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