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  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Coronavirus economic impact
    IMF expects US and China to recover most strongly from virus economic hit

    Fund predicts that Europe and emerging markets will be lagging behind in 2022

  • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
    Zambia
    Mining deal adds to Zambian debt woes

    With further payments coming due, Lusaka is under pressure to stabilise finances to secure an IMF deal

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Tunisia
    Tunisia’s anger boils over as Covid batters economy

    Nightly riots underscore frustration with poverty and high unemployment

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Martin Wolf
    Kristalina Georgieva: ‘We are in a resilient place but cannot take stability for granted’

    The IMF chief calls for global co-operation to support health systems and limit the damage of economic scarring

  • Sunday, 20 December, 2020
    News in-depthEmerging markets
    Debt dilemma: how to avoid a crisis in emerging nations

    Institutions, creditors and lobby groups tout policies to relieve pandemic’s fiscal strain

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    Gordon Brown
    Gordon Brown: G20 nations must devise a global plan for growth post-Covid

    We cannot afford to exclude the world’s lower-income countries from the economic recovery

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    IMF chief warns against complacency on global economy

    Kristalina Georgieva says financial system more resilient than 10 years ago, but policymakers must act quickly

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Eurozone economy
    IMF calls for more support to tackle risk of fresh eurozone downturn

    Short-term outlook suggests greater fiscal and monetary stimulus required, fund warns

  • Sunday, 29 November, 2020
    Argentine economy
    Argentina damps hopes of quick deal with IMF

    Economy minister Martín Guzmán says government is in no rush for new programme

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  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Lessons from Japan
    Hoped-for boom in public investment risks paving road to nowhere

    Lessons from Japan: Past public works projects hint at what to expect as IMF urges governments to loosen purse strings

  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
    Pakistan
    Pakistan balks at IMF demands over $6bn loan

    Islamabad refuses to implement reforms over fears they will generate middle-class backlash

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Why the developing world needs a bigger pandemic response

    The G20 summit and a Biden administration could lead to new initiatives for poorer countries

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    InterviewEmerging markets
    G20 nearing IMF funding boost for poorer nations, says Saudi minister

    Mohammed al-Jadaan tells FT he is ‘optimistic’ about measure hitherto blocked by US

  • Monday, 16 November, 2020
    Argentina
    Peronist senators in Argentina demand concessions from IMF

    Letter sent by lawmakers loyal to vice-president has raised concerns about negotiations

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    Martin Wolf
    We can avert irreversible climate change

    Action is both essential and affordable — but it demands international leaders’ co-operation

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    Special ReportWorld Economy
    Pandemic hits poor hit hardest as inequality rises

    Unlike Black Death, coronavirus has widened divisions, hurting low skilled, women and the young more than others

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    Special ReportWorld Economy
    Emerging markets face lasting financial setback from coronavirus crisis

    Governments’ ability to fund debts through growth faces deep uncertainty

  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
    Gita Gopinath
    Global liquidity trap requires a big fiscal response

    Central banks have taken unprecedented steps, but now demand needs a lift

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    UK business & economy
    IMF urges UK to keep spending to tackle pandemic crisis

    Output now expected to shrink 10.4% in 2020 and recover only partially next year

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Gillian Tett
    A disturbing new signal from the CDS market

    Falling prices at auctions suggest trouble ahead for lenders to beleaguered companies

  • Monday, 26 October, 2020
    Mohamed El-Erian
    What the shift on austerity means for markets

    Greater dispersion of returns likely for firms and countries as debt and deficits surge

  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    Martin Wolf
    The threat of long economic Covid looms

    Governments need to focus on the cost of inaction, not the cost of supporting economies

  • Sunday, 18 October, 2020
    Shahin Vallée
    Europe is on track to repeat its fiscal policy mistakes

    Governments are planning to cut deficits at the wrong time

  • Sunday, 18 October, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Transparency offers way out of Zambia debt crisis

    The African state and its Chinese lenders must come clean on borrowings

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Global economy: the week that austerity was officially buried

    The IMF and World Bank are urging richer countries to spend their way out of the pandemic, although some developing nations face cuts

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