iMFdirect – The IMF Blog

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 Beyond–Finance & Development magazine looks at five years since crisis began
• Fixing the System–what still needs to be done?
• Global imbalances: “stable disequilibrium“
• Triple Threat–three obstacles to a green future, with the global economic crisis smothering action on global warming and feeding an expanding gap between haves and have-nots
• Asia: China’s narrowing current account surplus; India’s investment difficulties; Japan–Europe dampens outlook
• Africa:  Côte d’Ivoire gets $7 billion debt relief; Africa’s Changing Times
• LICs: Expanding financial sectors
• Latin America: how “systemic” is Brazil?
• Middle East: why the Arab world needs an “Economic Spring“
• Oil: absorbing price volatility; five reasons why it’s different now
• F&D magazine on Facebook
• People in Economics: our profile of Elinor Ostrom and nine other Nobel Prize winners
• Track global economic news and analysis from IMF Survey on its new Google+ channel

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