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Economic growth: IMF marks watershed moment for developing countries
GDP growth. (Source: IMF WEO Chapter 1.)
The latest IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) records a watershed moment for the global economy. In terms of purchasing power GDP, the…
Is the IMF a political football in the Ukraine crisis?
The way they were. Yanukovich and Strauss Kahn in 2010.
Ukraine faces an economic crisis as well as a political one. Its economy is a mess and it will take a lot of money and…
How not to bail out a country: Bankers still skewing debt debate
One of the many lessons of the 2008 financial crisis is that emergency bailout funding (such as an IMF-orchestrated rescue) seriously distorts the operation of financial markets…