Emerging Markets

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Global Economy

The time to ramp up protection against Asian financial contagion is now

M. Chatib Basri, Peter Drysdale, and Adam Triggs

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

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Future Development

IMF Special Drawing Rights: A key tool for attacking a COVID-19 financial fallout in developing countries

Kevin P. Gallagher, José Antonio Ocampo, and Ulrich Volz

Thursday, March 26, 2020

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Op-Ed

Latin America, with few bullets to spare

Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

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Up Front

The future of global manufacturing

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Karim Foda

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Reports

Currency symbols float over a map of Africa

Report

Illicit financial flows in Africa: Drivers, destinations, and policy options

Landry Signé, Mariama Sow, and Payce Madden

Monday, March 2, 2020

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Global Economy

October 2019 update to TIGER: Sliding into synchronized stagnation

Eswar Prasad and Ethan Wu

Sunday, October 13, 2019

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Report

Economic growth strategies beyond neoliberalism: Do we need new models for the 21st century?

Danny Leipziger

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

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Report

Introduction: Beyond neoliberalism in emerging markets

Geoffrey Gertz and Homi Kharas

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

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Report

April 2019 update to TIGER: World economy lurches from uneven recovery to synchronized slowdown

Eswar Prasad

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Blog Posts

Africa in focus

New trends in illicit financial flows from Africa

Payce Madden

Monday, March 2, 2020

Future Development

Debt: The dose makes the poison

M. Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara

Friday, February 28, 2020

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Future Development

How inclusive is growth?

Meagan Dooley and Homi Kharas

Friday, November 22, 2019

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