The IMF and World Bank have just wrapped up their Spring Meetings for April, dominated by agreement on a huge boost to the anti-crisis firewall to prevent contagion in the event of another flare-up.
Here’s some of the highlights in our latest global and regional assessments:
- Policy-setting IMFC targets jobs and growth + quick video briefing
- Global outlook–world growth projections; fiscal outlook; financial sector analysis
- Chief economist Olivier Blanchard‘s assessment + José Viñals on what needs doing in the financial sector
- Getting it just right — fiscal adjustment: Making Goldilocks happy
- Outlook for Asia
- Regional forecast for Middle East and Central Asia
- Europe — video briefing and text transcript on Greece, Portugal, Ireland + European banks + WEO outlook by region
- Africa — African business climate; podcast on Chinese investment in Africa
- Latin America — need to rebuild buffers
- IMF news on Google+
- Video analysis — leading economists on the IMF YouTube channel
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