Florence Jaumotte is a senior economist in the IMF’s Research Department. She has worked in the Multilateral Surveillance Division and the World Economic Studies Division of the Research Department, as well as on a number of country teams. Her research has focused on labor market institutions and policies, income inequality, and open-economy macroeconomics. Previously, she has worked in the Economics Department of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. She obtained her PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
As the world does its best to move on from the pandemic, one of the lasting legacies for many advanced economies has been greater adoption of digital technologies. Working from home is no...
Los recientes aumentos de los precios de los alimentos y la energía afectan a los hogares en todo el mundo. La fuerte subida mundial de los precios de la energía desde la invasión de Ucra...
Recent surges in food and fuel costs are hurting households everywhere. The global spike in energy prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine underscores the need to transition away from d...
Climate action is gaining momentum. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries have intensified climate action and many have committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050, meaning that any...
The presence of large and rising bilateral trade balances has raised concerns that asymmetric obstacles to trade may distort the international trade system. Yet, rather than looking at bi...
It took 1,000 years for the invention of paper to spread from China to Europe. Nowadays, in a world that has become more integrated, innovations spread faster and through many channels.
While the recent surge in refugees has brought attention to migration issues, there is already a large population of migrants living in advanced economies, and migration continues to be o...
Más allá de la polémica que suscita a nivel político, la migración tiene sentido en términos económicos. Un nuevo estudio del FMI muestra que, a más largo plazo, tanto los trabajadores ca...
Migration, no matter how controversial politically, makes sense economically. A new IMF study shows that, over the longer term, both high- and low-skilled workers who migrate bring benefi...
