China’s monetary policies
The People's Bank has an english language site that is becoming essential reading. The papers and speeches by the Governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, such as this pap...
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The Quiet Coup
If you can't let the banks fail and won't take over their assets, they own you. "[W]e face at least two major, interrelated problems. The first is a desperatel...
Rodrik’s Plan B for global finance
"[T]he logic of global financial regulation is flawed. The world economy will be far more stable and prosperous with a thin veneer of international co-operati...
Avoiding current account crises
"The IMF was founded to channel capital from surplus to deficit countries, but its currently available resources, about $200bn including borrowing agreements, a...
World trade: it’s not the 1930s
Some initial reactions of governments to the prospect of a dramatic downturn in world trade and production uncannily echo events of eighty years ago. Think of t...
Trade outlook in context
The IMF is spouting a stream of press releases (that it calls "World Economic Outlook" revisions) to show…well I'm not sure what. That it's relevant aga...
IMF Data Mapper
Trade data sets are large and often difficult to interpret. Simplifying the data and showing policy-relevant relationships is important. The new IMF Data Mapper...