Fiscal Monitor: Helping People Bounce Back published by IMF (10/2022). Governments face increasingly difficult trade-offs in tackling the spikes in food and energy prices when policy buffers are largely exhausted after two years of pandemic. They should prioritize protecting…
Assuntos Econômicos
Central Bank Independence and Inflation in Latin America (Jácome, Pienknagura)
Central Bank Independence and Inflation in Latin America—Through the Lens of History by Luis Ignacio Jácome, Samuel Pienknagura published by IMF (9/2022). We study the link between central bank independence and inflation by providing narrative and empiricial evidence based…
PIMA Handbook: Public Investment Management Assessment, 1st Edition published by IMF, indicated by Alvaro Manoel (7/2022) This handbook is aimed at anyone who is involved in a Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA) or who has a practical interest in…
The IMF Sixteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference: “Unconventional Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies published by IMF (2015). The theme of conference is “Unconventional Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies.” The conference is intended to provide a forum for discussing…
War slows recovery published by IMF (4/2022) The war in Ukraine has triggered a costly humanitarian crisis that demands a peaceful resolution. At the same time, economic damage from the conflict will contribute to a significant slowdown in global…
Mundell-Fleming Lecture by Lawrence H. Summers published by IMF (11/2016) This year’s Mundell-Fleming Lecture was delivered by Larry Summers on the topic of Macroeconomic Policy and Secular Stagnation.
Government Finance Statistics (GFS) published by IMF (2022) “The Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database contains fiscal data for all reporting countries in the framework of the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014). It includes detailed data on revenues,…
Adjusting Under Pressure published by IMF (2015). Economies in the Western Hemisphere are generally seeing a slowdown in growth. The U.S. economy regained momentum after a slow start at the beginning of the year, while in Latin America and…
Issues in Restructuring of Sovereign Domestic Debt published by IMF (12/2021). As emerging and developing economies accumulate more domestic sovereign debt, it is likely to play a larger role in the resolution of future sovereign debt crises. This paper…
Rise of Inequality at Center of Global Economic Crisis published by IMF (6/2012). “Since the onset of the global crisis, there has been much agonizing about the growing inequality found in many parts of the world. Wells and economist…
