Research and Commentary

Japan's Rescue of the IMF

January 12, 2012, Carin Holroyd and Bessma Momani

The Euro-Area Crisis: Weighing Options for Unconventional IMF Interventions

December 2011, Domenico Lombardi and Sarah Puritz Milsom

Keep the International Monetary Fund Out of Europe

December 6, 2011, Mario I. Blejer and Eduardo Levy-Yeyati

Italy Must Secure IMF Help to Stave off Further Crisis

November 10, 2011, Domenico Lombardi

Local Governance Reforms Are Critical to Improving the Effectiveness of IMF/World Bank Lending to Africa

September 29, 2011, Julius Agbor and Olumide Taiwo

Transparency and the IMF

September 23, 2011, David Gartner

New World Bank President? Another Tough Choice for Obama

September 20, 2011, Lex Rieffel

European Leaders Must Unite to Solve Financial Crisis

September 19, 2011, Domenico Lombardi

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The United States Should Wish Bon Voyage to the World Bank

September 16, 2011, Lex Rieffel

To Solve the Fiscal Dilemma, Look to the Details

September 1, 2011, Kemal Derviş

Challenges Loom for Lagarde in New IMF Post

July 1, 2011, Domenico Lombardi

The Old Order Has Triumphed Yet Again at the IMF

June 28, 2011, Eswar Prasad

BRICs Must Put up a Fight for IMF Top Job

May 25, 2011, Eswar Prasad

Immoral Hazard

May 20, 2011, Paul Blustein

IMF Leadership Succession – Time for a Real Change

May 17, 2011, Johannes F. Linn

The IMF Spring Meetings and the G-20: Questions Still Left Unanswered

April 12, 2011, Domenico Lombardi

Think Tank 20: Macroeconomic Policy Interdependence and the G-20

April 11, 2011

@ Brookings Podcast: Currency Manipulation and the Global Markets

February 4, 2011, Domenico Lombardi

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Financial Regionalism: A Review of the Issues

November 2010, Domenico Lombardi

The G-20 Can Stop Currency War

November 9, 2010, Kemal Derviş

A Suggestion for the IMF: Embrace Regionalism

November 8, 2010, Raj M. Desai and James Raymond Vreeland

Five Climate Action Items from the IMF and World Bank Meetings

October 12, 2010, Katherine Sierra

Reform of the Multilateral Development System: Call for a High-Level Commission

October 8, 2010, Johannes F. Linn

How has the Great Recession Altered the Medium-Term Outlook? Evidence from the IMF’s New World Economic Outlook Database

October 7, 2010, Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz

Previewing the IMF Meetings

October 6, 2010, Domenico Lombardi

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