International Monetary Fund (IMF)

IMF's Lipsky on the benefits of transparency

The benefits of central bank transparency should be remembered despite some drawbacks, said John Lipsky, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

Asia's reserves lower borrowing costs

Asian economies benefit from reduced spreads on their privately-held external debt because of their large holdings of foreign-exchange reserves, according to new research from the International Monetary Fund.

GCC inflation is imported

Inflation rates in trading partners are the main driver of price pressures in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, finds a new paper from the International Monetary Fund.

US should follow IMF's lead on SWFs

US lawmakers heading a working group on sovereign wealth funds have deemed the International Monetary Fund, not the US Congress, the appropriate forum for addressing funds' transparency and accountability.

The wider benefits of assistance

Juliet Johnson suggests that assistance to post-communist central banks by their Western counterparts resulted in closer links between central bankers more generally

Advanced and emerging markets diverging

In the period of globalisation from 1985 to 2005 there has been convergence of business cycles within industrial economies and within the emerging-markets, but a decoupling between them, finds a new paper from the International Monetary Fund.

IMF sticks with $1 trillion write-down estimate

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday it was standing by its estimate that subprime write-downs would end up totalling something close to $1 trillion despite research by the Bank of England suggesting that losses would be a lot lower.

Dollar depreciation reflects value: IMF's Lipsky

The dollar is now the closest to its medium-term equilibrium value it has been in a decade and is set to remain the global reserve currency, said John Lipsky, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

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