Emerging Markets

Captive solar power plant installed for the needs of a flower farm in Kenya

External Article

Financing a big investment push in emerging markets and developing economies for sustainable, resilient and inclusive recovery and growth

Amar Bhattacharya, Meagan Dooley, Homi Kharas, Charlotte Taylor, and Nicholas Stern

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

A map of the world with coins stacked near it.

Future Development

The new global tax deal is bad for development

Julie McCarthy

Monday, May 16, 2022

Close-up of calculator on Indian rupee banknotes on table.

Report

A bad deal for development: Assessing the impacts of the new inclusive framework tax deal on low- and middle-income countries

Julie McCarthy

Monday, May 16, 2022

Currency from several different countries

Future Development

Coping with high inflation and borrowing costs in emerging market and developing economies

Jongrim Ha, M. Ayhan Kose, and Franziska Ohnsorge

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Reports

In the evening, the silhouette Industrial port cranes against the backdrop of storm clouds in Odessa, Ukraine

Report

April 2022 update to TIGER: Policymakers face grim quandaries as storm clouds gather

Aryan Khanna and Eswar Prasad

April, 17, 2022

Financial chart with upward arrow drawn in pencil

Report

Status check: Managing debt sustainability and development priorities through a ‘Big Push’

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Friday, October 29, 2021

Report

Debt service risks, Special Drawing Rights allocations, and development prospects

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Lima, Peru.- In the photos taken on November 20, 2020, it shows rural families, dedicated to different livestock activities in Lima, Peru. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the informal employment rate at the national level increased from 73% in the first quarter of this year to 75.2% in the third quarter, thus reaching the value highest in more than eight years. Today, almost eight out of ten jobs are informal.

Report

Debt distress and development distress: Twin crises of 2021

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Guatemala City, Guatemala.- In the photos, it shows the indigenous rural areas of Guatemala during the crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. A special UN report reveals that Latin American and Caribbean countries face the highest per capita levels of Covid-19; in addition to a fall in its economy of 9.1 percent for the region in 2020, which will undoubtedly be the largest in 100 years, which will translate into 45 million more people living in poverty compared to last year, affecting more the countries of Mexico, Nicaragua and Guatemala.

Report

Global development cooperation in a COVID-19 world

Homi Kharas

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Blog Posts

Person with umbrella in front of International Monetary Fund sign.

Up Front

The IMF’s updated view on capital controls

Anton Korinek, Prakash Loungani, and Jonathan D. Ostry

Monday, April 18, 2022

Bread products are seen on a mini market shelf, Limassol, Cyprus, on Mar. 7, 2022. Cypriot consumers have seen their purchasing power reduce by more than 5% compared to a year ago as inflation hit a 13-year record high in January and are warned that prices of essential goods will skyrocket further due to spiralling fuel costs from the crisis in Ukraine. (Photo by Kostas Pikoulas/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Future Development

Is high inflation here to stay?

Jongrim Ha, M. Ayhan Kose, and Franziska Ohnsorge

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

A watchman stands next to heaps of sacks filled with paddy at a wholesale grain market in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh November 15, 2014. India's inflation dropped to a new multi-year low in October, helped by slower annual rises in food and fuel prices, intensifying pressure on the central bank to cut interest rates to encourage spending and investment needed to boost growth. REUTERS/Ajay Verma (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES)

Future Development

Getting out of the coronavirus economic contraction

Indermit Gill, M. Ayhan Kose, and Dana Vorisek

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

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Events

2021

Dec

Past Event

The promises and risks of artificial intelligence: A conversation with Daron Acemoglu

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

2021

Oct

Past Event

Carbon removal innovations and their challenges: A conversation with Susteon President Shantanu Agarwal

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

2021

May

Past Event

Middle-class Shanghai: Reshaping US-China engagement

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

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Experts

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Multimedia

China

China’s economic future

David Dollar and James Pethokoukis

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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

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Africa in Focus

Capitalizing on Industry 4.0 in Africa

Christina Golubski

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Zhang Yingyi, a 30-year-old administrative assistant and a mother of a three-year-old girl, smiles as she poses for a photograph at her home in Shanghai, China,

Podcast Episode

The global middle class

Homi Kharas and Fred Dews

Friday, May 19, 2017

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