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Latin America: Vulnerabilities Under Construction?
By Luis Cubeddu, Camilo E. Tovar, and Evridiki Tsounta (Version in Español) Housing construction projects are sprouting up across much of Latin America and mortgage credit is also growing very fast....
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Regional Spillovers in South America: How “Systemic” is Brazil?
By Gustavo Adler and Sebastián Sosa (Version in Español) The risks that policies and shocks in major economies can spillover on other countries and regions have become a matter of renewed concern since...
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Latin America: Riding the Global Financial Waves
By Gustavo Adler and Camilo E. Tovar (Version in Español) Latin America has a long history of accidents that have occurred while navigating turbulent financial international waters. With risks looming...
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Global Crisis — Top Links from the IMF for Economics and Finance
Our top links for June, 2012 from iMFdirect blog and others: Crisis in the Euro Area — IMF urges concrete road map to complete monetary union to boost confidence and revive growth The Crisis and...
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World Faces Weak Economic Recovery
By Olivier Blanchard (Versions in عربي, 中文, Español, Français, Русский, 日本語) The global recovery continues, but the recovery is weak; indeed a bit weaker than we forecast in April. In the Euro zone,...
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Global Economy: Some Bad News and Some Hope
By Olivier Blanchard (Versions in عربي, 中文, Español, Français, Русский, 日本語) The world economic recovery continues, but it has weakened further. In advanced countries, growth is now too low to make a...
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Latin America and the Caribbean: Dealing with Another Food Price Shock
By Luis Cubeddu and Sebastián Sosa (Version in Español) World food prices are on the rise again owing mainly to global weather-related shocks. This has led to concern that the rise could result in...
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Policy Interest Rates in Latin America: Moving to Neutral?
By Nicolas Magud and Evridiki Tsounta (Version in Español) Many Latin American countries have strengthened their monetary policy frameworks in recent years to keep the rate of inflation in check. Some...
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Latin American Firms: Keeping Corporate Vulnerabilities in Check
by María González-Miranda (Version in Español) Four years after the Lehman Brothers crisis, private companies in the largest and most financially integrated Latin American countries are doing...
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The Power of Cooperation
by iMFdirect The planet’s most successful species are the great cooperators: ants, bees, termites, and humans. In an article in the new issue of Finance & Development magazine, President Bill...
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We May Have Avoided the Cliffs, But We Still Face High Mountains
by Olivier Blanchard Version in Español Optimism is in the air, particularly in financial markets. And some cautious optimism may indeed be justified. Compared to where we were at the same time last...
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The World’s Three-Speed Economic Recovery
By Olivier Blanchard (Versions in عربي , 中文, 日本語, Русский, and Español) The main theme of our latest outlook is one that you have now heard for a few days: we have moved from a two-speed recovery to a...
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Preventing The Next Catastrophe: Where Do We Stand?
Guest post by David Romer University of California, Berkeley, and co-host of Rethinking Macro II: First Steps and Early Lessons (Versions in 中文, 日本語, and Русский) As I listened to the presentations and...
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After a Golden Decade, Can Latin America Keep Its Luster?
By Alejandro Werner (Versions in Español and Português) Latin America continues to be one of the fastest growing regions in the world, even though growth slowed down a bit in 2012. Many economies in...
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Saving Latin America’s Unprecedented Income Windfall
by Gustavo Adler and Nicolás Magud (Versions in Español and Português) Commodity exporting countries in Latin America have benefited strongly from the commodity price boom that began around 2002. And...
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Unleashing Brazil’s Growth
By Martin Kaufman and Mercedes García-Escribano (Version in Español and Português) Since the early 2000s, Brazil’s economy has grown at a robust clip, with growth in 2010 reaching 7.5 percent—its...
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Fiscal Policy in Latin America: Prudence Today Means Prosperity Tomorrow
By Alejandro Werner (Versions Español and Português) Public finances in most Latin American countries strengthened significantly before the global financial crisis. Since 2009, countries have generally...
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Emerging Markets Need To Do More To Remain Engines of Global Growth
By Min Zhu (Version in Français, Русский, 日本語, Português, عربي and 中文) We had a big debate on emerging markets’ growth prospects at our Annual Meetings in October 2013. We lowered our 2013 growth...
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The 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...
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The Trillion Dollar Question: Who Owns Emerging Market Government Debt
By Serkan Arslanalp and Takahiro Tsuda (Version in Español, Français, Português, Русский, 中文 and 日本語) There are a trillion reasons to care about who owns emerging market debt. That’s how much money...
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