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GDP: Falling Short 12/22/2017 07:58 AM EST By IMFBlog December 22, 2017 Economist Diane Coyle speaking at the IMF Statistical Forum on Measuring the Digital Economy (photo: IMF) Gross domestic product, or GDP, has been used to measure growth since the Second […] Staying Ahead of the Next Crisis: Improving Collaboration with Regional Financing Arrangements 12/21/2017 08:00 AM EST By Petya Koeva Brooks, Pragyan Deb, and Nathan Porter December 21, 2017 Festival of lights in Chiang Mai, Thailand: Regional financing arrangements, such as the Chiang Mai Initiative, are playing a growing role in crisis […]

Strength in Numbers: A Safety Net to Prevent Crises in the Global Economy

12/19/2017 02:11 PM EST

By IMFBlog December 19, 2017 Walking on a safety net: countries need insurance in bad economic and financial times (photo: Vivek Prakash/Newscom). If you are lucky, when the going gets tough, you have a group […]