
IMF: How vaccine equity could help economic recovery
In just three months since we released our last forecast in October, recorded COVID-19 deaths have doubled to over 2 million, as new waves have lifted infections past previous peaks in ma...
Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund (IMF); Director, IMF's Research Department; Economic Counsellor of the Fund. Currently on leave of public service from position as John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics, Harvard University. Research focuses on international finance and macroeconomics. Co-Editor, “Handbook of International Economics”. Former: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business; Co-Editor, American Economic Review; Managing Editor, Review of Economic Studies; Co-Director, International Finance and Macroeconomics programme, National Bureau of Economic Research; Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Member, Economic Advisory Panel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala State, India; Member, Eminent Persons Advisory Group on G-20 Matters, India's Ministry of Finance. Elected Fellow: American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Econometric Society. Recipient: Pravasi Bharatiya Samman; Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Washington. Named, among others: among Bloomberg 50 people who defined 2019; one of the Top Global Thinkers Foreign Policy, 2019; named among the Women who Broke Major Barriers to Become “Firsts”, Time Magazine, 2019. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum, 2011. PhD in Economics, Princeton University; BA, Lady Sri Ram College; MA, Delhi School of Economics and University of Washington.
In just three months since we released our last forecast in October, recorded COVID-19 deaths have doubled to over 2 million, as new waves have lifted infections past previous peaks in ma...
La actual pandemia de COVID-19 ya ha dado lugar a una respuesta de política fiscal sin precedentes de cerca de USD 11 billones en todo el mundo. Pero los casos confirmados y las muertes s...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has already prompted an unprecedented fiscal policy response of close to $11 trillion worldwide. But with confirmed cases and fatalities still rising fast, p...
La pandemia de COVID-19 empujó las economías a un Gran Confinamiento, que contribuyó a contener el virus y salvar vidas, pero también desencadenó la peor recesión desde la Gran Depresión....
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed economies into a Great Lockdown, which helped contain the virus and save lives, but also triggered the worst recession since the Great Depression. Over 75 per...
Se prevé que el Gran Confinamiento se desarrollará en tres fases, primero cuando los países entran en etapa de confinamiento, luego cuando salen de ella, y finalmente cuando escapan al co...
The Great Lockdown is expected to play out in three phases, first as countries enter the lockdown, then as they exit, and finally as they escape the lockdown when there is a medical solut...
The human costs of the coronavirus outbreak have risen at an alarming rate and the disease is spreading across more countries.
7月新的一期《世界经济展望》下调了2019年全球经济增长预测,预计2019年全球经济增长3.2%,2020年增长3.5%。这是在此前大幅下调预测值之前做出的预测,与4月预测相比,这两年的预测值都有0.1个百分点的小幅修正。2019年的修订反映了新兴市场和发展中国家经济增长带来的负面影响抵消了一些发达经济体经济增长的惊喜。
In our July update of the World Economic Outlook we are revising downward our projection for global growth to 3.2 percent in 2019 and 3.5 percent in 2020. While this is a modest revision ...
Tras la crisis financiera mundial, los superávits y déficits en cuenta corriente cayeron bruscamente a nivel general, de alrededor del 6% del PIB mundial en 2007 a alrededor del 3,5% en 2...
Following the global financial crisis, overall current account surpluses and deficits fell sharply from about 6 percent of global GDP in 2007 to about 3.5 percent in 2013. Since then, as ...
US-China trade tensions have negatively affected consumers as well as many producers in both countries. The tariffs have reduced trade between the US and China, but the bilateral trade de...
Hace un año, la actividad económica estaba acelerándose en casi todas las regiones del mundo. Mucho ha cambiado desde entonces: la escalada de las tensiones comerciales entre Estados Unid...
Every industrial revolution has driven a wave of globalization. The first wave was driven by innovations such as the steam engine and the industrial weaving machine; the second by the ass...