The International Monetary Fund’s tenth annual External Sector Report (ESR, August 2021) shows how current account deficits in the global…
The contrast between the scarcity of investments in infrastructure and the excess of savings invested in liquid and low-return assets…
The world woke up on Monday 23 with higher international reserves for all countries. A new allocation of US$650 billion…
On July 21, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) published its eighth annual report on Global Public Investors…
Commodity prices have recovered their 2020 losses and, in most cases, are now above pre-pandemic levels (Figure 1). The pace…
Many donor countries seem eager to see middle-income countries (MICs) graduate to non-client status in multilateral development institutions before achieving…
The monetary policy report submitted by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to the U.S. Congress on…
While the economic recovery around the world remains uneven, fragile, and unbalanced across sectors, financial markets are generally doing very…
There was a significant inflow of funds in Brazil's external financial account in October and November for investments in both…
by Otaviano Canuto Latin American and Caribbean economies need help, but organisations such as the IDB are also stretched thin.…