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In an interview from Davos, Switzerland, the IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky says that although the mood among delegates is more upbeat than it was one year ago, people still have concerns about the resilience of the economic recovery.
Filed under: Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Financial regulation, IMF | Tagged: Davos, financial sector taxation, global recovery, John Lipsky, World Economic Forum, World Economic Outlook | 1 Comment »
The IMF said it had revised upwards its earlier forecast for global growth by ¾ percentage point from the October 2009 forecast. Along with the update to its forecast, the IMF also released a new assessment of global financial conditions in its Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). It said that financial markets have rebounded since the lows of last March, the result of improving economic conditions and wide-ranging policy actions by governments.
Filed under: Advanced Economies, Economic Crisis, Economic research, Emerging Markets, Europe, Financial Crisis, Financial regulation, Fiscal Stimulus, IMF, Latin America, recession | Tagged: euities markets, Global Financial Stability Report, global recovery, José Viñals, Olivier Blanchard, risk appetite, World Economic Outlook | 1 Comment »
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn proposes a “Marshall Plan” for Haiti to help rebuild the shattered Caribbean nation after the earthquake.
Filed under: concessional lending, IMF, International Monetary Fund, LICs, Low-income countries, Multilateral Cooperation | Tagged: Caribbean, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, earthquake, Haiti, Marshall Plan, Montreal, Port-au-Prince, relief supplies | 4 Comments »
Marek Belka, head of the IMF’s European Department and a former Prime Minister of Poland, looks at what’s at stake for the eurozone as the recovery from the global economic crisis gets under way.
Filed under: Economic Crisis, Europe, Financial Crisis, Financial regulation | Tagged: Ashoka Mody, Edda Zoli, European Central Bank, eurozone, Financial Stability framework, Ireland, Labor, Paul Krugman, SGP. Martin Wolf, Silvia Sgherri, Spain, the euro | Leave a Comment »
To successfully unwind the extraordinary policy measures taken in response to the crisis, we need more than just a good sense of the state of the economic recovery and the degree of financial stability. We also need to know to what extent the global economy currently is influenced by those supportive policy measures. Marek Belka, Director of the IMF’s European Department and a former Prime Minister of Poland, discusses whether or not it is safe yet to change tack.
Filed under: Advanced Economies, Economic Crisis, Europe, Financial Crisis, Financial regulation, Fiscal Stimulus, growth | Tagged: bank lending, Banking crisis, eastern Europe, ECB, Europe, European Central Bank, fiscal policy, Fiscal Stimulus, G-20, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Lucas Papademos, recovery, the euro, unemployment, Wolfgang Munchau, World Economic Outlook | Leave a Comment »
By John Lipsky The economic and financial crisis of the past two years has placed in high relief profound changes in global economic and financial realities. Most notably, the crisis has underscored the shift in relative economic weight in favor of dynamic emerging market economies. In response, the G-20— a grouping that includes both advanced and [...]
Filed under: Advanced Economies, Annual Meetings, Economic Crisis, Emerging Markets, Global Governance, Multilateral Cooperation | Tagged: crisis prevention, economic forecasts, Flexible Credit Line, IMF quota shares, Pittsburgh Summit, sustainable growth | Leave a Comment »
IMF First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky discusses the need for financial sector reform following the global financial crisis, and addresses the Fund’s role in assessing options for a financial sector tax to help pay for the costs of the crisis and improve systemic stability.
Filed under: Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Financial regulation, Global Governance, International Monetary Fund | Tagged: capital buffers, capital standards, financial sector reform, financial supervision, financial transactions tax, impaired assets, John Lipsky, regulatory reform, risk management, Tobin tax | 15 Comments »
The year 2010 has opened amid generalized—–but tempered—optimism about the global economic and financial outlook. The unprecedented scale and scope of the anti-crisis measures taken during the past year—and the unprecedented degree of multilateral policy coordination involved in their design and implementation—appear to have succeeded in averting a downturn of historic proportions. But looking forward, the new decade is ushering in a series of at least five key challenges.
Filed under: Advanced Economies, Africa, Asia, Economic Crisis, Emerging Markets, Financial Crisis, Fiscal Stimulus, growth, International Monetary Fund, Low-income countries | Tagged: credit losses, domestic demand, Fiscal Stimulus, output gaps, Pittsburgh Summit, policy coordination | 6 Comments »
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