Policy Coordination

Global Recovery Strengthens, Tensions Heighten

Olivier Blanchard | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Potential Output, IMF World Economic Outlook, Fiscal Consolidation, Policy Coordination, Inventory Cycle, Inflation Expectations, Private Demand, Capital Controls, Fiscal Sustainability, Economic Recovery, Financial Regulation, Bank Recapitalization, Fiscal Stimulus, Unemployment, Exchange Rate, Macroprudential Policies, Financial Supervision, Commodity Prices, Capital Inflows, Financial Stability, Business News
Olivier Blanchard

The need for careful design of economic policies at the national level, and coordination at the global level, may be as important today as they were at the peak of the crisis two years ago.

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A Stronger Financial Architecture for Tomorrow's World

Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Capital Flows, International Monetary System, Policy Coordination, Surveillance, Capital Controls, Macrofinancial Linkages, Special Drawing Rights, Reserve Currencies, International Monetary Cooperation, Flexible Credit Line, Early Warning Exercise, G-20 Mutual Assessment Process, Exchange Rates, Global Financial Safety Net, Regional Financing Mechanisms, Global Imbalances, Precautionary Credit Line, Fsap, Business News
Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Reform of the international monetary system is wide-ranging and complex. Global debate is only just starting. But we must all recognize that this is not something academic or abstract. We need concrete ideas.

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Weekend in Washington: Cooperating Our Way Out of Crisis

Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: IMF Quotas, Currency Wars, Governance, IMFC, Unemployment, Cooperation, Cross-Border Linkages, Policy Coordination, Double-Dip Recession, Global Recovery, IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, Jobs, Spillovers, Annual Meetings, Fiscal Sustainability, Balanced and Sustainable Growth, G-20, International Monetary and Financial Committee, Financial Sector Reform, Business News
Dominique Strauss-Kahn

This past weekend in Washington DC, as the economic leaders of 187 countries gathered for the Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, the mood was ...

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The Two Rebalancing Acts

Olivier Blanchard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: IMF World Economic Outlook, Fiscal Consolidation, Economic Imbalances, Policy Coordination, Private Investment, Private Demand, Financial Reform, World Economic Outlook, Monetary Accommodation, Rebalance Global Economy, Global Financial Crisis, Economic Recovery, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Stimulus, Unemployment, Capital Inflows, Private Domestic Demand, Sustainable Recovery, Balanced and Sustainable Growth, Downside Risks, Business News
Olivier Blanchard

Achieving a "strong, balanced, and sustained world recovery"--to quote from the goal set in Pittsburgh by the G-20--was never going to be easy. It req...

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Turning Up the Volume--Asia's Voice and Leadership in Global Policymaking

Naoyuki Shinohara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Policy Coordination, Regional Integration, New Arrangements to Borrow, G-20, Regional Economic Analysis, Asia and the IMF, Regional Financial Safety Nets, Global Financial Crisis, International Monetary Cooperation, Asian Integration, G-20 Mutual Assessment Process, Sustainable Recovery, Global Financial Safety Net, IMF Governance, Regional Financing Mechanisms, Asia21, Business News
Naoyuki Shinohara

As my IMF colleagues and I gather here in Daejeon, South Korea with many luminaries from the region, we have an important opportunity to reinvent how the IMF and Asia collaborate in facing global economic challenges.

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