Rabah Arezki heads the commodities team in the IMF’s Research Department. Rabah has written on commodities, international macroeconomics, and development economics. He has led and participated in various IMF missions in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution and at the University of Oxford.
In a 2015 speech, Mark Carney, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, sparked a debate about whether monetary policymakers should look beyond the horizon of the business and credit...
On 19 July, Algeria won the 2019 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations. The victory was the culmination of a strongly contested international football tournament with 24 teams where we saw...
Countries commonly climb to middle-income status, only to get stuck there – suddenly experiencing the low pervasive growth that Gill and Kharas (2007) refer to as the 'middle-income trap'...
Algeria’s economy is growing far too slowly to provide enough jobs for a young, expanding, and increasingly restless population. The country's authorities need to boost competition, spur ...
Los precios del petróleo se mantienen persistentemente bajos desde hace más de un año, pero como se señala en la edición de Perspectivas de la economía mundial (informe WEO, por sus sigla...
En noviembre de 2014, la Organización de Países Exportadores de Petróleo (OPEP) decidió mantener el nivel de producción pese a una aparente sobreabundancia de petróleo a nivel internacion...
Agriculture and food markets are plagued with inefficiencies that have dramatic consequences for the welfare of the world’s most vulnerable populations. Globally, farm subsidies amount to...
Contrary to popular belief, developing countries appear relatively poor in resource wealth compared to developed countries. At least, that is what the data show. According to the World Ba...
While oil prices have stabilized somewhat in recent months, there are good reasons to believe they won’t return to the high levels that preceded their historic collapse two years ago. For...
Aunque los precios del petróleo se han estabilizado en cierta medida en los últimos meses, hay razones de peso para pensar que no retornarán a los elevados niveles registrados antes del d...
Oil prices have plummeted by about 65% from their peak in June 2014 (see chart below), and there is now intense debate about why. One thing we know for sure is that the oil market has und...
Oil prices have decreased by about 65% since their recent peak in June 2014 (Figure 1). This dramatic and largely unexpected (Baumeister and Kilian 2016) collapse in prices has sparked in...
